Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 00:33     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t seem creative or correct to say HYSP is the best at everything. Depends on the topic:

Broadcasting / journalism—Syracuse
International work - Hopkins (even though they graduated a Russian spy recently)
Medicine - Rochester, Hopkins, Pitt
Business - UMD, Babson, Harvard, Stanford
Environmental - Allegheny, Juniata, Brown, Rutgers
Acting - Yale
Communications - Emerson
Public affairs - Syracuse, CMU
Marine biology - Eckerd and maybe URI

Lmao… ok Syracuse grad.



Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 00:32     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
MIT
Yale
Cornell
Columbia
Chicago
Northwestern
Caltech

And that’s it.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 00:13     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Harvard, Stanford
Yale, Princeton
CalTech, MIT
Amherst, Swarthmore
Williams, Dartmouth
Duke, Penn
Northwestern, Chicago
Columbia, Cornell
Hopkins, Georgetown
Vandy, Wash U
Cal, Michigan
Pomona, Notre Dame
Rice, IIT
Oxford, Cambridge
LSE, Trinity (Dublin)
Peking, Tsinghua

Women's Colleges:
Wellesley, Smith
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 00:09     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t seem creative or correct to say HYSP is the best at everything. Depends on the topic:

Broadcasting / journalism—Syracuse
International work - Hopkins (even though they graduated a Russian spy recently)
Medicine - Rochester, Hopkins, Pitt
Business - UMD, Babson, Harvard, Stanford
Environmental - Allegheny, Juniata, Brown, Rutgers
Acting - Yale
Communications - Emerson
Public affairs - Syracuse, CMU
Marine biology - Eckerd and maybe URI






I would add Georgetown's School of Foreign Service to this list.
Anonymous
Post 04/04/2023 00:04     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:None. I’ve met exemplary people who went to no name schools and terrible people who went to name brand schools.


+1
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 23:47     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
None. I’ve met exemplary people who went to no name schools and terrible people who went to name brand schools.
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 23:43     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
My college for my major.
Other colleges, meh!
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 23:04     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:Iowa for writing.


And U Florida and NYU.
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 23:02     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Doesn’t seem creative or correct to say HYSP is the best at everything. Depends on the topic:

Broadcasting / journalism—Syracuse
International work - Hopkins (even though they graduated a Russian spy recently)
Medicine - Rochester, Hopkins, Pitt
Business - UMD, Babson, Harvard, Stanford
Environmental - Allegheny, Juniata, Brown, Rutgers
Acting - Yale
Communications - Emerson
Public affairs - Syracuse, CMU
Marine biology - Eckerd and maybe URI




Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 23:02     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
Impressed: MIT, Wyoming Catholic, Oxford, Williamson College of the Trades, Webb Institute, Carnegie-Mellon, IIT - Bombay, Curtis Institute, Deep Springs (at least older grads, dunno the current crop), Julliard, Princeton.

Also, Harvard sucks.

Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 22:57     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Caltech, eth zurich

That’s about it

Every other school is tainted


MIT asks for all test scores, as does Georgetown. They do not play rankings games. Add those to your list.


MIT practices affirmative action as does Georgetown


They ask for all scores and don't play ranking games. What does the "practice affirmative action" comment refer to in this context?
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 22:50     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some rich boy got in Yale and major in art history
Is that really impressive??


I know one who did fine arts there!


I know one, too.
A high school art teacher now.
Not impressive.


So, you wouldn’t want your child to have a Yale-educated teacher?
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 22:44     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth
MIT, Caltech, Stanford
Northwestern, Amherst
Cal Berkeley, Duke
Any combined undergrad plus early med school admit program
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 22:36     Subject: “Impressive” Colleges
Iowa for writing.
Anonymous
Post 04/03/2023 22:14     Subject: Re:“Impressive” Colleges
Anonymous wrote:If an Asian kid got into one of those schools, and major in some serious science or engineering, then I would be impressed.
Not so much for others.


Psst, your bad grammar gives you away. Also your post about the art history kid at Yale.