Anonymous
08/13/2019 19:52
Subject: Re:Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Anonymous wrote:Look up what Harvey Manssfield ( a long time Harvard professor) has to say about its academic standards. The Ivy’s used to produce great witers, orators, and statesmen(Frost, Calhoun, Adams) What do they produ now? Idiots like Bush, Hillary, Obama, Trump, Cruz etc
LOL. Old turdy losers are funny.
Right. No answer to a cogent point, just “LOL”
Anonymous
08/13/2019 19:41
Subject: Re:Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Look up what Harvey Manssfield ( a long time Harvard professor) has to say about its academic standards. The Ivy’s used to produce great witers, orators, and statesmen(Frost, Calhoun, Adams) What do they produ now? Idiots like Bush, Hillary, Obama, Trump, Cruz etc
LOL. Old turdy losers are funny.
Anonymous
08/13/2019 19:19
Subject: Re:Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Of course "Ivy League" is a brand, just like Ashley Madison.com.
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:56
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but the Ivy League is largely just a brand today. Leftism, critical race theory, anodother PC nonsense dominate the Ivy League. Kids used to be required to have a reading knowledge of Greek, Latin, AND a modern language JUST TO GET INTO AN IVY. Standards today are a joke.
Yes, it IS a brand, one known for excellence all over the world. If the standards were a "joke" as you say, would most of the schools still have an admit rate of single digits?
"What does one get from attending an Ivy other than professional benefits?
Now THAT is funny.
Anonymous wrote:
It’s not a real thing. “Ivy League” is just a sports conference.
Aaaaannnndddd... it was only a matter of time before this idiot showed up.
I am talking about academic standards.( specifically in the humanities) Low admit rate doesn’t mean a damn thing. They have low admit rates because
1. Thousands upon thousands of students apply
2. People still see the Ivy League as providing an excellent education( albeit wrongly) and of course the professional benefits/connections are excellent so the smartest students( by today’s standards anyway) apply.
Look up what Harvey Manssfield ( a long time Harvard professor) has to say about its academic standards. The Ivy’s used to produce great witers, orators, and statesmen(Frost, Calhoun, Adams) What do they produ now? Idiots like Bush, Hillary, Obama, Trump, Cruz etc
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:49
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Wahoo here. We roll our eyes at people who say it. We are fine with being a public school. People who have to say “public ivy” obviously think there something wrong with just being a good public school.
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:48
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry but the Ivy League is largely just a brand today. Leftism, critical race theory, anodother PC nonsense dominate the Ivy League. Kids used to be required to have a reading knowledge of Greek, Latin, AND a modern language JUST TO GET INTO AN IVY. Standards today are a joke.
Yes, it IS a brand, one known for excellence all over the world. If the standards were a "joke" as you say, would most of the schools still have an admit rate of single digits?
"What does one get from attending an Ivy other than professional benefits?
Now THAT is funny.
Anonymous wrote:
It’s not a real thing. “Ivy League” is just a sports conference.
Aaaaannnndddd... it was only a matter of time before this idiot showed up.
We’ve gone through this before and always come back to....in reality, it’s just a sports conference. People may perceive that it’s more than that but that perception is just based on manufactured hype. Not reality.
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:48
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
The difference in cost is fairly substantial. That’s the point the 1988 author was trying to make.
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:46
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s not really a thing. But at the same time, and I say this as a proud Cornell grad, Ivy is a football league.
Cornell is a good school, and it’s great your dd got in, but you should be proud she got into Cornell, not that she got into an Ivy. They’re not interchangeable, and there are plenty of schools that are not in the Ivy League that are quite arguably better than Cornell.
+1
It’s not a real thing. “Ivy League” is just a sports conference. “Public Ivy” is a term manufactured by parents to make themselves feel better about their choices.
Yes, or rather their reduced choices. The only universities or colleges in the US that I'd consider equivalent or better than an Ivy would be MIT and then on the next rung down, places like Berkeley and UCLA, William & Mary, so on and so forth
Stanford is up there. So is Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, etc. TONS of great schools that are all in different sports conferences.
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:33
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s not really a thing. But at the same time, and I say this as a proud Cornell grad, Ivy is a football league.
Cornell is a good school, and it’s great your dd got in, but you should be proud she got into Cornell, not that she got into an Ivy. They’re not interchangeable, and there are plenty of schools that are not in the Ivy League that are quite arguably better than Cornell.
+1
It’s not a real thing. “Ivy League” is just a sports conference. “Public Ivy” is a term manufactured by parents to make themselves feel better about their choices.
Yes, or rather their reduced choices. The only universities or colleges in the US that I'd consider equivalent or better than an Ivy would be MIT and then on the next rung down, places like Berkeley and UCLA, William & Mary, so on and so forth
Anonymous
08/13/2019 18:18
Subject: Is "Public Ivy" really a thing?
I’m sorry but the Ivy League is largely just a brand today. Leftism, critical race theory, anodother PC nonsense dominate the Ivy League. Kids used to be required to have a reading knowledge of Greek, Latin, AND a modern language JUST TO GET INTO AN IVY. Standards today are a joke.
Yes, it IS a brand, one known for excellence all over the world. If the standards were a "joke" as you say, would most of the schools still have an admit rate of single digits?
"What does one get from attending an Ivy other than professional benefits?
Now THAT is funny.
Anonymous wrote:
It’s not a real thing. “Ivy League” is just a sports conference.
Aaaaannnndddd... it was only a matter of time before this idiot showed up.