Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 22:39     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe lose the scorn?

One of my kids is studying International Affairs at GWU. If there had been a reputable program for that at UMD, our state flagship, he'd have gone there. But he didn't get into Georgetown SAIS, and he didn't want W&M's dual degree programme with St Andrews, which offers an international affairs specialty. So he went to GWU, which offered him merit aid. He's happy there.

If you can afford it, you go where your major is.



Yes, you’ve told us about your son. Again and again and again.


How obnoxious are you? Why take the time and effort to write this? You clearly live on this site. But some of us don’t, so we benefit from hearing this info shared by this poster.


She’s a broken record bro



No, you have issues.


Ok GWU mom
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 22:04     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe lose the scorn?

One of my kids is studying International Affairs at GWU. If there had been a reputable program for that at UMD, our state flagship, he'd have gone there. But he didn't get into Georgetown SAIS, and he didn't want W&M's dual degree programme with St Andrews, which offers an international affairs specialty. So he went to GWU, which offered him merit aid. He's happy there.

If you can afford it, you go where your major is.



Yes, you’ve told us about your son. Again and again and again.


How obnoxious are you? Why take the time and effort to write this? You clearly live on this site. But some of us don’t, so we benefit from hearing this info shared by this poster.


She’s a broken record bro



No, you have issues.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 21:53     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe lose the scorn?

One of my kids is studying International Affairs at GWU. If there had been a reputable program for that at UMD, our state flagship, he'd have gone there. But he didn't get into Georgetown SAIS, and he didn't want W&M's dual degree programme with St Andrews, which offers an international affairs specialty. So he went to GWU, which offered him merit aid. He's happy there.

If you can afford it, you go where your major is.



Yes, you’ve told us about your son. Again and again and again.


How obnoxious are you? Why take the time and effort to write this? You clearly live on this site. But some of us don’t, so we benefit from hearing this info shared by this poster.



+1. PP needs to get a life.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 19:01     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, NEU, Tulane, Miami who cares. Lots of state flagships better.




Applicants care and they think these schools are better. That's the reality.


Agree - the problem is many of the applicants and their parents try so hard to convince people they are something that they aren’t . The schools on that list are fine, but they are not prestigious. It’s like comparing a Dr. to a nurse. Nurses take a very difficult course load, they are smart and capable, but your friends are going to be way more impressed and excited for you if your kid is a Dr. Only the Ivies and a few others in the too 15 are Drs.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 16:39     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why so much hate for BU on this board. It’s just weird.


MAGA males don't like MLK or AOC.

The Charlie Kirk effect.



There aren’t a lot of MAGA males at any good school. MAGA is the antithesis of strong thinking, reason, logic and so on. I think BU should hype up that Martin Luther King and AOC are alumni.

I also don’t get the disdain for BU. It’s a very solid school in a great city. And they get a gazillion apps so obviously there are a lot of 18 year olds that like it just fine.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 14:50     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:Why so much hate for BU on this board. It’s just weird.


MAGA males don't like MLK or AOC.

The Charlie Kirk effect.

Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 12:03     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, NEU, Tulane, Miami who cares. Lots of state flagships better.




Applicants care and they think these schools are better. That's the reality.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 09:50     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Georgetown SAIS


Georgetown has the SFS (School of Foreign Service)
SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies) is at Johns Hopkins

I've seen "Georgetown SAIS" several times here. That's not a thing.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 09:49     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:If "perceived prestige" is what you're concerned with, the simple answer to this question is to look at the school's "yield rate" (the percentage of admitted students that actually choose to enroll in the schools. Harvard's is very high (80%). Most of these schools are in the 40-50% range, on par with, say, Michigan, UVA, or UNC's yield rate, but much higher than Ohio State, Maryland. Some of these, like NYU have >50% yield rates, much higher than state flagships. Others, like Emory and Wake, are in the 30s, much lower than the more prestigious flagships. If you're only interested in the quality of education your kid will receive, there's very little difference between any of these schools.


State school yield is usually very high for in state but low for out of state.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 09:36     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Pseudo prestigious privates = “little” Ivies.

That terminology is the ultimate coping mechanism for parents.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 08:52     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
My kid is interested in wash u bc of the endless combinations of biology/physics/neuroscience majors it offers. Has nothing to do with “prestige.” What - you think Bo one should go to these schools bc they aren’t Ivies?? What even is your point?
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 08:28     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe lose the scorn?

One of my kids is studying International Affairs at GWU. If there had been a reputable program for that at UMD, our state flagship, he'd have gone there. But he didn't get into Georgetown SAIS, and he didn't want W&M's dual degree programme with St Andrews, which offers an international affairs specialty. So he went to GWU, which offered him merit aid. He's happy there.

If you can afford it, you go where your major is.



Yes, you’ve told us about your son. Again and again and again.


How obnoxious are you? Why take the time and effort to write this? You clearly live on this site. But some of us don’t, so we benefit from hearing this info shared by this poster.


She’s a broken record bro
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 08:25     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:If "perceived prestige" is what you're concerned with, the simple answer to this question is to look at the school's "yield rate" (the percentage of admitted students that actually choose to enroll in the schools. Harvard's is very high (80%). Most of these schools are in the 40-50% range, on par with, say, Michigan, UVA, or UNC's yield rate, but much higher than Ohio State, Maryland. Some of these, like NYU have >50% yield rates, much higher than state flagships. Others, like Emory and Wake, are in the 30s, much lower than the more prestigious flagships. If you're only interested in the quality of education your kid will receive, there's very little difference between any of these schools.

Yeild has nothing to do with prestige. It can be manipulated with ED, and TO. Schools with higher TO students or just lower test scores in general have a higher yeild. NYU has only 25% of students submit test scores.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 07:17     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know at U Chicago is autistic.


No, they are artistic, but since so many are from the NYC-Boston corridor, and have trouble pronouncing the letter “r,” the way they say it sounds like autistic.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2025 00:22     Subject: Pseudo prestigious privates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe lose the scorn?

One of my kids is studying International Affairs at GWU. If there had been a reputable program for that at UMD, our state flagship, he'd have gone there. But he didn't get into Georgetown SAIS, and he didn't want W&M's dual degree programme with St Andrews, which offers an international affairs specialty. So he went to GWU, which offered him merit aid. He's happy there.

If you can afford it, you go where your major is.



Yes, you’ve told us about your son. Again and again and again.


How obnoxious are you? Why take the time and effort to write this? You clearly live on this site. But some of us don’t, so we benefit from hearing this info shared by this poster.