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Anonymous wrote:I also don't understand the importance of international reputation.

This thread has "USN rankings" in the headline. NYU is ranked #30 out of 3,000 or so. I am not gifted in the maths, but doesn't that put it in the top 1%?

Someone needs to define what percent is "elite". If that number is 0.25%, then NYU is not elite.

So what is the number?

It's the NYU boosters bragging about NYU being the bests school in the nation, in part because of their supposed international reputation and because the "newly wealthy" in Middle East and Asia are apparently just dying to attend. It's like orientalist but 100% more self-serving and oblivious, which is saying a lot.

I think NYU is moderately prestigious, but it does not belong in the absolute upper crust of American higher education, which most would agree is the top ~20 schools in the nation.

The MOST elite undergraduate schools in this country are HYPSM. That’s it.

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Anonymous wrote:I also don't understand the importance of international reputation.

This thread has "USN rankings" in the headline. NYU is ranked #30 out of 3,000 or so. I am not gifted in the maths, but doesn't that put it in the top 1%?

Someone needs to define what percent is "elite". If that number is 0.25%, then NYU is not elite.

So what is the number?

It's the NYU boosters bragging about NYU being the bests school in the nation, in part because of their supposed international reputation and because the "newly wealthy" in Middle East and Asia are apparently just dying to attend. It's like orientalist but 100% more self-serving and oblivious, which is saying a lot.

I think NYU is moderately prestigious, but it does not belong in the absolute upper crust of American higher education, which most would agree is the top ~20 schools in the nation.

Anonymous wrote:I also don't understand the importance of international reputation.

This thread has "USN rankings" in the headline. NYU is ranked #30 out of 3,000 or so. I am not gifted in the maths, but doesn't that put it in the top 1%?

Someone needs to define what percent is "elite". If that number is 0.25%, then NYU is not elite.

So what is the number?

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Anonymous wrote:DP. I will jump in to comment on HYP. As an alum, the focus of these undergraduate schools appears to be to attract the wealthy/those who they think will be leaders who make a lot of money, and then solicit unending donations from them as alums to maximize endowment. I enjoyed my undergraduate experience, but as a non-wealthy but comfortable alum, I have probably received no less that 30 appeals this year, averaging 3-4 per month - from various general and specific funds, including a call to donate to rebuilt the men's boathouse (which did in fact meet its stated $100MM goal). College wealth appears to drive many of the categories of the USNews rankings; if the uni cannot fund investment (what some on this thread call gaming)in the categories, it falls. HYP are so rich, they can fund all categories, and so will never fall in the rankings, if ability to build a $100MM boathouse from alumni donations during Covid-19 is any indication.

It's about time they all started paying State, Local and Federal taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:Lmao at the suburban vanilla Karens lecturing about what is or isn't en vogue with international students. Probably hasn't even had a proper conversation with anyone from these aforementioned regions, like, ever.

Why post about yourself? Do you know anyone at any top school or is your entire crowd state U people?

I went to HYPS but you won’t see me lecturing others on the false notion that NYU is one of the most elite schools. It’s also genuinely funny that people who only speak English and don’t know a single non-American are preaching about what the “newly rich” in the Middle East and Asia think and feel about schools like NYU.

Anonymous wrote:Lmao at the suburban vanilla Karens lecturing about what is or isn't en vogue with international students. Probably hasn't even had a proper conversation with anyone from these aforementioned regions, like, ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Lmao at the suburban vanilla Karens lecturing about what is or isn't en vogue with international students. Probably hasn't even had a proper conversation with anyone from these aforementioned regions, like, ever.

Why post about yourself? Do you know anyone at any top school or is your entire crowd state U people?

Anonymous wrote:Lmao at the suburban vanilla Karens lecturing about what is or isn't en vogue with international students. Probably hasn't even had a proper conversation with anyone from these aforementioned regions, like, ever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. I will jump in to comment on HYP. As an alum, the focus of these undergraduate schools appears to be to attract the wealthy/those who they think will be leaders who make a lot of money, and then solicit unending donations from them as alums to maximize endowment. I enjoyed my undergraduate experience, but as a non-wealthy but comfortable alum, I have probably received no less that 30 appeals this year, averaging 3-4 per month - from various general and specific funds, including a call to donate to rebuilt the men's boathouse (which did in fact meet its stated $100MM goal). College wealth appears to drive many of the categories of the USNews rankings; if the uni cannot fund investment (what some on this thread call gaming)in the categories, it falls. HYP are so rich, they can fund all categories, and so will never fall in the rankings, if ability to build a $100MM boathouse from alumni donations during Covid-19 is any indication.

If you factor in tax exempt status along with government grants for research, tuition, etc., the biggest recipients of government benefits are all private universities like Princeton and Harvard.

Anonymous wrote:DP. I will jump in to comment on HYP. As an alum, the focus of these undergraduate schools appears to be to attract the wealthy/those who they think will be leaders who make a lot of money, and then solicit unending donations from them as alums to maximize endowment. I enjoyed my undergraduate experience, but as a non-wealthy but comfortable alum, I have probably received no less that 30 appeals this year, averaging 3-4 per month - from various general and specific funds, including a call to donate to rebuilt the men's boathouse (which did in fact meet its stated $100MM goal). College wealth appears to drive many of the categories of the USNews rankings; if the uni cannot fund investment (what some on this thread call gaming)in the categories, it falls. HYP are so rich, they can fund all categories, and so will never fall in the rankings, if ability to build a $100MM boathouse from alumni donations during Covid-19 is any indication.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. I will jump in to comment on HYP. As an alum, the focus of these undergraduate schools appears to be to attract the wealthy/those who they think will be leaders who make a lot of money, and then solicit unending donations from them as alums to maximize endowment. I enjoyed my undergraduate experience, but as a non-wealthy but comfortable alum, I have probably received no less that 30 appeals this year, averaging 3-4 per month - from various general and specific funds, including a call to donate to rebuilt the men's boathouse (which did in fact meet its stated $100MM goal). College wealth appears to drive many of the categories of the USNews rankings; if the uni cannot fund investment (what some on this thread call gaming)in the categories, it falls. HYP are so rich, they can fund all categories, and so will never fall in the rankings, if ability to build a $100MM boathouse from alumni donations during Covid-19 is any indication.

It's about time they all started paying State, Local and Federal taxes.

As long as the churches and country clubs do also, right? And all the charities? And political groups?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. I will jump in to comment on HYP. As an alum, the focus of these undergraduate schools appears to be to attract the wealthy/those who they think will be leaders who make a lot of money, and then solicit unending donations from them as alums to maximize endowment. I enjoyed my undergraduate experience, but as a non-wealthy but comfortable alum, I have probably received no less that 30 appeals this year, averaging 3-4 per month - from various general and specific funds, including a call to donate to rebuilt the men's boathouse (which did in fact meet its stated $100MM goal). College wealth appears to drive many of the categories of the USNews rankings; if the uni cannot fund investment (what some on this thread call gaming)in the categories, it falls. HYP are so rich, they can fund all categories, and so will never fall in the rankings, if ability to build a $100MM boathouse from alumni donations during Covid-19 is any indication.

It's about time they all started paying State, Local and Federal taxes.

Anonymous wrote:DP. I will jump in to comment on HYP. As an alum, the focus of these undergraduate schools appears to be to attract the wealthy/those who they think will be leaders who make a lot of money, and then solicit unending donations from them as alums to maximize endowment. I enjoyed my undergraduate experience, but as a non-wealthy but comfortable alum, I have probably received no less that 30 appeals this year, averaging 3-4 per month - from various general and specific funds, including a call to donate to rebuilt the men's boathouse (which did in fact meet its stated $100MM goal). College wealth appears to drive many of the categories of the USNews rankings; if the uni cannot fund investment (what some on this thread call gaming)in the categories, it falls. HYP are so rich, they can fund all categories, and so will never fall in the rankings, if ability to build a $100MM boathouse from alumni donations during Covid-19 is any indication.