Anonymous
06/23/2025 02:09
Subject: Re:The future of DCUM
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP. I see a real shift to state schools and especially SEC schools in my real life. I’ve even seen Ivy-potentials not apply to any, or even turn down an Ivy. The reason is the perception that that the value isn’t there, and they are miserable places.
Miserable? My kid’s gets big name concerts on the green. SNL at the theater. Tons of festivals. Laid-back and friendly.
You just parrot bs.
Shrug. I’m just the messenger here, and I’m telling you that kids these days, including Ivy-potential kids, think the Ivies are miserable places filled with miserable people.
Ivies aren’t seen the way they used to be, and I’m a HYS graduate myself.
Unless there have been surveys done in different parts of the country and you’ve studied them your post is nonsense. How would a 17 year old know they are miserable places? The only thing they know is they have very little chance of being admitted including those Ivy-potential kids you mention.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 14:57
Subject: Re:The future of DCUM
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is definitely an anti-Ivy shift both on dcum and in DC. All the admissions scandals and the data about athletes and big donors, plus the shifts to and from testing have diluted the brand. MIT seems to have retained its status. The “pointy-ness” required for the unhooked is not what most of us want for our children.
I graduated HS in 1998 and believed Ivy to be the pinnacle of American education until about 5 years ago.
No anti-Ivy sentiment in DC, except for the current administration. DMV families still consider Ivy to be the best outcome. The brand is not diluted. That’s fantasy talk from MAGA.
The brand is not diluted but the rest of the country has moved on and realized that more than the ivy league are quality institutions.
It also doesn’t help the elite colleges’ brands that so many of the slimiest politicians attended them. From where I sit, it’s folks like Schumer, Schiff, Comey, & the Clintons. And I’m sure Dems have a list of Republicans they can’t stand who attended top schools.
It’s really just Harvard and Yale pumping out evil people like there’s no tomorrow.
Penn. . .
And Stanford.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 14:43
Subject: The future of DCUM
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For my rising senior this fall, I am really praying that HYP applications might contract a bit. He is going to need every bit of help he can to have a chance.
Ummm, here’s a pro tip…your saying the quiet part out loud.
No, no, no! There really are people picking Bama over Harvard! Stick with the plan!
Anonymous
06/22/2025 14:41
Subject: The future of DCUM
Anonymous wrote:For my rising senior this fall, I am really praying that HYP applications might contract a bit. He is going to need every bit of help he can to have a chance.
Ummm, here’s a pro tip…your saying the quiet part out loud.