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Anonymous wrote:How did this thread even become hijacked to become a battleground for the world's most insecure college grads who clearly are trying to compensate for something? This isn't embarrassing for Northwestern or its grads; it's deeply embarrassing for the weird PP's who keep yarning on about HYPSM and how Chicago sucks... on a thread about a donation? Really, really strange. Move on!

This is basically every DCUM thread now. If any school becomes the focus of discussion, a bunch of weirdos would just come out and start bashing the school by making unwelcome and misinformed comparisons to that stupid acronym.

They're just trolls with no actual experience with elite schools. Better to just ignore.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 to PP. They fact that the prestige defense squad is so easily triggered, insecure and desperate (like they can't find anything bad about the school, so they'll go on to say how bad the city of Chicago is) really is a great testament to the unstoppable rise in popularity and reputation of schools like Northwestern and UChicago. Thanks for the great advertising opportunity!

UChicago and NU boosters make other schools look better and better.

As a "big three" grad, I'm really embarrassed to be associated with whoever is doing this... no, it does not. I'm even gonna stop referring to that acronym from now on.

Don't fret too much. It's just a troll who has zero experience with HYPSM or elite recruiting.

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread even become hijacked to become a battleground for the world's most insecure college grads who clearly are trying to compensate for something? This isn't embarrassing for Northwestern or its grads; it's deeply embarrassing for the weird PP's who keep yarning on about HYPSM and how Chicago sucks... on a thread about a donation? Really, really strange. Move on!

The logic behind their vitriol is that 1) Northwestern is an "inferior" school and therefore, unworthy of being on the receiving end of such a big donation 2) the money should have gone to HYPSM instead 3) how come there are billionaires graduating from a "second-tier" school like Northwestern???

The fact that Northwestern received a near $500 million donation from a very successful businessman with strong attachment to his alma mater for them is just earth-shattering because it challenged just about all of their preconceived notions on prestige and stuff like that. Dial back a few years, they made the same comments about JHU too when Bloomberg made his record donation by trashing the school in just about every thread possible. The irrational hate has sort of died down but I'm sure now that I brought it back up, someone will definitely say something again.

Anonymous wrote:How did this thread even become hijacked to become a battleground for the world's most insecure college grads who clearly are trying to compensate for something? This isn't embarrassing for Northwestern or its grads; it's deeply embarrassing for the weird PP's who keep yarning on about HYPSM and how Chicago sucks... on a thread about a donation? Really, really strange. Move on!

This is basically every DCUM thread now. If any school becomes the focus of discussion, a bunch of weirdos would just come out and start bashing the school by making unwelcome and misinformed comparisons to that stupid acronym.

How did this thread even become hijacked to become a battleground for the world's most insecure college grads who clearly are trying to compensate for something? This isn't embarrassing for Northwestern or its grads; it's deeply embarrassing for the weird PP's who keep yarning on about HYPSM and how Chicago sucks... on a thread about a donation? Really, really strange. Move on!

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Anonymous wrote:+1 to PP. They fact that the prestige defense squad is so easily triggered, insecure and desperate (like they can't find anything bad about the school, so they'll go on to say how bad the city of Chicago is) really is a great testament to the unstoppable rise in popularity and reputation of schools like Northwestern and UChicago. Thanks for the great advertising opportunity!

UChicago and NU boosters make other schools look better and better.

As a "big three" grad, I'm really embarrassed to be associated with whoever is doing this... no, it does not. I'm even gonna stop referring to that acronym from now on.

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Anonymous wrote:Who?

Patrick Ryan is a multibillionaire who founded Aon Corp. Big in the business world. Huge Chicago-based philanthropist, and long-time donor to Northwestern.

Sounds like Ryan with his infomercial empire might be paying his booster army $1 per positive post.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching hypsm rejects debate which second tier school is marginally better or more elite than the other is so amusing. If your school doesn’t make it to the exclusive club of school it makes virtually no difference - they’re all inferior in the eyes of the elite recruiters.

Says someone with no experience with HYPSM or elite recruiting.

as if you had any experience. Look at the stats, I'd be damned if hypsm doesn't come out top on every single top JD/MBA/PhD or investment bank, big law, FAANG ranking in terms of undergrad representation. There is a reason they remain the top of the top. No other school has such clout as they do. It's basically a guarantee of lifelong success.

Love seeing hypsm prestige defense squad getting owned... let me take a stab at this too, copying and pasting from another poster. I'll just look at the top 5 if that's what matters to you. And since you're obsessed with numbers, I'll be obsessed with numbers, too.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1002850.page

T14 Law school (adjusted for undergrad enrollment):
1. Yale
2. Princeton
3. Amherst
4. Harvard
5. Chicago

Where's Stanford or MIT?
Oh, Stanford is at No.11, below schools like Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, and Pomona and MIT isn't even top 25. Does that fit into you very high definition of being "elite"?

T25 US Medical School (Adjusted for undergrad enrollment):
1. Yale
2. Duke
3. Stanford
4. Johns Hopkins
5. Harvard

Where's Princeton and MIT?
Oh, one is at #6 and the other is at #12, below schools like Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Rice, and Amherst. Does that fit into you very high definition of being "elite"?

Select Tech Companies (Adobe, AirBnB, Apple, DocuSign, Github, Google, HubSpot, LinkedIn, Lyft, Microsoft, Netflix, NVIDIA, SalesForce, Slack, and Twitter), adjusted for undergrad enrollment
1. CMU
2. Stanford
3. Caltech
4. Harvey Mudd
5. Columbia

Top Engineering Companies (Amazon, Apple, Boeing, ExxonMobil, Google, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NASA, SpaceX, and Tesla), Adjusted for undergrad enrollment
1. CMU
2. Caltech
3. Columbia
4. Stanford
5. MIT

Where's HYP?
Oh, wait, none of them even cracked top 10, but Columbia, Duke, USC, Georgia Tech, Rice did.

PhD enrollment (Adjusted for undergrad enrollment)
1. Caltech
2. Harvey Mudd
3. Swarthmore
4. MIT
5. Carleton

Where's HYPS?
Well, they didn't even crack into top 14. Chicago and a bunch of liberal arts colleges did.

Top Wall Street firms (Goldman Sachs, Citi, JP Morgan, Bank of American Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Barclays, UBS, Evercore, Jefferies, Lazard, Moelis & Company, and Centerview Partners), Adjusted for Undergrad enrollment
1. Penn
2. Columbia
3. Harvard
4. UChicago
5. Yale

Where's Princeton, Stanford, MIT?
Oh, one is at #8, the other at #18, and MIT didn't even crack top 25. Dartmouth, Georgetown, and Duke all had an impressive showing.

Top Universities for Startups (undergraduate, raw numbers)
1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. MIT
4. Harvard
5. Penn

Where's Yale or Princeton?
Oh wait, they're just marginally ranked higher than Columbia, Brown, and UCLA...

Top feeders for News and Media (Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post), Adjusted for Undergraduate Enrollment
1. Columbia
2. Northwestern
3. Harvard
4. Yale
5. NYU

Where's Princeton, MIT, Stanford?
Well, one is at #11, one is at #13, and one didn't even crack top 25.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-business-school
Top feeders to T10 MBA programs, adjusted for undergrad enrollment
1. Dartmouth
2. Chicago
3. Claremont McKenna
4. Yale
5. Williams

I'm not even gonna keep counting now... just go enlighten yourself, please. I hate to say it but no one really cares about your stupid acronym in the professional world.

Anonymous wrote:+1 to PP. They fact that the prestige defense squad is so easily triggered, insecure and desperate (like they can't find anything bad about the school, so they'll go on to say how bad the city of Chicago is) really is a great testament to the unstoppable rise in popularity and reputation of schools like Northwestern and UChicago. Thanks for the great advertising opportunity!

UChicago and NU boosters make other schools look better and better.

Anonymous wrote:Who?

Patrick Ryan is a multibillionaire who founded Aon Corp. Big in the business world. Huge Chicago-based philanthropist, and long-time donor to Northwestern.

Anonymous wrote:+1 to PP. They fact that the prestige defense squad is so easily triggered, insecure and desperate (like they can't find anything bad about the school, so they'll go on to say how bad the city of Chicago is) really is a great testament to the unstoppable rise in popularity and reputation of schools like Northwestern and UChicago. Thanks for the great advertising opportunity!

Agreed. This easily could have been a thread of maybe 3 pages, tops, but this person (or persons) with their non-facts and zero substance-filled criticisms and stalker-ish behavior only serve to bring more eyeballs to the news. Keep at it!

Most of the $480 million donation is being funneled toward medical research, and some towards the economics department. Per Forbes:

• The Ryan Family Digital Health Fund will focus on digital medicine technologies to improve human health. One part of this fund will support the development of an interactive digital application that assists parents in using sensor programs to measure neuromotor performance in infants. The second part will support a sustainable and accessible library of unique health data sets.
• A new neuroscience institute will be established that will build on Northwestern's leading scholarship in that field.
• The Ryan Family Catalyst Fund will support medical research by scholars with the potential to make important discoveries about human disease.
• The existing Institute for Global Health will be endowed and renamed the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health in honor of Robert J. Havey, the institute’s deputy director and clinical professor of general internal medicine and geriatrics at the university.
• The Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care will be established within the Havey Institute.

Who?

+1 to PP. They fact that the prestige defense squad is so easily triggered, insecure and desperate (like they can't find anything bad about the school, so they'll go on to say how bad the city of Chicago is) really is a great testament to the unstoppable rise in popularity and reputation of schools like Northwestern and UChicago. Thanks for the great advertising opportunity!

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Anonymous wrote:NU is for ivy rejects.

You seriously need help for your obsession with this school.

— signed, a parent whose kid happily turned down two Ivies for Northwestern

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+1 This thread has so many weirdos on here. I'd love to know who you people are exactly. I am from the Northeast, I respect the Ivies a lot. I went to Duke and loved it. My brother had a great experience at MIT.

My kids' achievements far surpass mine and I would be absolutely thrilled if they chose to go to Northwestern.

What is it about UChicago and NU people that they must constantly toot their own horns? It’s just tiresome.

That person isn't even from Northwestern. Why are you so obsessed? It's just tiresome.

How do you know OP is not from NU?

All the Uchicaho and nu noise is air pollution. They ought to hold it down a bit. No one is asking about these schools. When someone does, go ahead and toot your horn. Until there is a genuine request for information, this is all air pollution.

Air pollution? If a bunch of people want to discuss how much they love a certain school in a thread, you can just not click on it. Northwestern is in the subject line. Something is very wrong with the fact that you feel the need to enter and say anything at all.

--A person with no NU affiliation but plenty of common sense and decency.

These threads should be informative, not hijacked by infomercials. It’s all air pollution. NU is a run-of-the-mill above average school.

Lol just because you repeat it nonstop doesn't make it true. Maybe invest some time into other, IRL hobbies? Have you checked on your kids?

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Anonymous wrote:NU is for ivy rejects.

You seriously need help for your obsession with this school.

— signed, a parent whose kid happily turned down two Ivies for Northwestern

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+1 This thread has so many weirdos on here. I'd love to know who you people are exactly. I am from the Northeast, I respect the Ivies a lot. I went to Duke and loved it. My brother had a great experience at MIT.

My kids' achievements far surpass mine and I would be absolutely thrilled if they chose to go to Northwestern.

What is it about UChicago and NU people that they must constantly toot their own horns? It’s just tiresome.

That person isn't even from Northwestern. Why are you so obsessed? It's just tiresome.

How do you know OP is not from NU?

All the Uchicaho and nu noise is air pollution. They ought to hold it down a bit. No one is asking about these schools. When someone does, go ahead and toot your horn. Until there is a genuine request for information, this is all air pollution.

Air pollution? If a bunch of people want to discuss how much they love a certain school in a thread, you can just not click on it. Northwestern is in the subject line. Something is very wrong with the fact that you feel the need to enter and say anything at all.

--A person with no NU affiliation but plenty of common sense and decency.

These threads should be informative, not hijacked by infomercials. It’s all air pollution. NU is a run-of-the-mill above average school.