Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am consistently amused by the utter lack of brain cells and strange chip-on-shoulder mentality displayed by so many posters here on DCUM. If you don't like a school, or think it's beneath you, just... ignore it and move on?

And right you are whose synapses are firimg on all cylinders! If you like the school, just send your daughters there.

Genuinely asking, did you have a stroke? Are you well? What's caused your fixation on these schools?

ARe you ok? This thread is about “elite” colleges. Some idiots keep hijacking this thread with schools that belong here. There are other threads you can go to. Genuinely asking, What's caused your fixation on these schools?

By every definition, those two schools are "elite". Sorry if that hurts you, little Bowdoin man.

Anonymous wrote:UChicago and Northwestern are fine colleges but they're no kid's first choice, which by definition does NOT make them elite. If you offered 12th graders the choice between: Northwestern, UChicago, Columbia or Penn. 99% would choose Penn or Columbia. Therefore, not elite -- and their flyover geography certainly doesn't help.

Hm. Plenty of kids have UChicago and Northwestern as their first choice schools. You might have an argument with Columbia, but Penn? Really? That school has very little clout outside of the Northeast and among USNWR-obsessed teens and their parents. And Chicago >>>>> Philly.

All great schools, though. What do you hope to gain by lying or trying to fabricate the truth?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am consistently amused by the utter lack of brain cells and strange chip-on-shoulder mentality displayed by so many posters here on DCUM. If you don't like a school, or think it's beneath you, just... ignore it and move on?

And right you are whose synapses are firimg on all cylinders! If you like the school, just send your daughters there.

Genuinely asking, did you have a stroke? Are you well? What's caused your fixation on these schools?

ARe you ok? This thread is about “elite” colleges. Some idiots keep hijacking this thread with schools that belong here. There are other threads you can go to. Genuinely asking, What's caused your fixation on these schools?

UChicago and Northwestern are fine colleges but they're no kid's first choice, which by definition does NOT make them elite. If you offered 12th graders the choice between: Northwestern, UChicago, Columbia or Penn. 99% would choose Penn or Columbia. Therefore, not elite -- and their flyover geography certainly doesn't help.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am consistently amused by the utter lack of brain cells and strange chip-on-shoulder mentality displayed by so many posters here on DCUM. If you don't like a school, or think it's beneath you, just... ignore it and move on?

And right you are whose synapses are firimg on all cylinders! If you like the school, just send your daughters there.

Genuinely asking, did you have a stroke? Are you well? What's caused your fixation on these schools?

Anonymous wrote:I am consistently amused by the utter lack of brain cells and strange chip-on-shoulder mentality displayed by so many posters here on DCUM. If you don't like a school, or think it's beneath you, just... ignore it and move on?

And right you are whose synapses are firimg on all cylinders! If you like the school, just send your daughters there.

I am consistently amused by the utter lack of brain cells and strange chip-on-shoulder mentality displayed by so many posters here on DCUM. If you don't like a school, or think it's beneath you, just... ignore it and move on?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always amused by the "Chicago is flyover country, a city that no one cares about" claim coming from people from DMV. LOL.

Can you imagine parents sending their kids away to college and then having to return to the campus to retrieve their kid’s body? Or having to take a phone call from a sobbing child that’s she’s been sexually assaulted?

The callousness of boosters who don’t give a hoot about the victims is absolutely frightening.

You seem woefully confused and arguing about/against very different things.

The original post against which PP is responding is as follows:

All of these threads turn into the same handful of insecure UChicago and Northwestern losers trying to force their flyover country college -- nobody cares about -- into the elite group.

The PP then surreptitiously changed “their flyover country collegee -- nobody cares about” to "Chicago is flyover country, a city that no one cares about.”
Don't come back here until you learn to read.

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Anonymous wrote:Always amused by the "Chicago is flyover country, a city that no one cares about" claim coming from people from DMV. LOL.

Can you imagine parents sending their kids away to college and then having to return to the campus to retrieve their kid’s body? Or having to take a phone call from a sobbing child that’s she’s been sexually assaulted?

The callousness of boosters who don’t give a hoot about the victims is absolutely frightening.

You seem woefully confused and arguing about/against very different things.

Anonymous wrote:Always amused by the "Chicago is flyover country, a city that no one cares about" claim coming from people from DMV. LOL.

Can you imagine parents sending their kids away to college and then having to return to the campus to retrieve their kid’s body? Or having to take a phone call from a sobbing child that’s she’s been sexually assaulted?

The callousness of boosters who don’t give a hoot about the victims is absolutely frightening.

Always amused by the "Chicago is flyover country, a city that no one cares about" claim coming from people from DMV. LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of these threads turn into the same handful of insecure UChicago and Northwestern losers trying to force their flyover country college -- nobody cares about -- into the elite group.

+1000

Sock puppet or two d-bags, doesn’t much matter.

The one upthread is a Bowdoin or other SLAC alum who apparently is extremely salty because no one cares about their school. They may be one and the same sock-puppeting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of these threads turn into the same handful of insecure UChicago and Northwestern losers trying to force their flyover country college -- nobody cares about -- into the elite group.

+1000

Sock puppet or two d-bags, doesn’t much matter.

Anonymous wrote:All of these threads turn into the same handful of insecure UChicago and Northwestern losers trying to force their flyover country college -- nobody cares about -- into the elite group.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:All of these threads turn into the same handful of insecure UChicago and Northwestern losers trying to force their flyover country college -- nobody cares about -- into the elite group.

You sound like quite a delight. Whatever “elite” education you received appears to have been largely wasted.