Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 12:48     Subject: College tiers?
At this point we get better people from State / land grant Comp Sci / Math than from any of the SLACs or Ivies. Maybe the other kids are smarter on paper, but they’re all afraid of their shadows and don’t like to work. They are also so exhaustingly sensitive that they’re impossible to manage. I guess the “best” Ivy kids / SLACs go to law / med school, but in the real world, we’ve given up on the “prestige” places. (Mid-Sized Management Consulting)
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 12:36     Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:The need of some people to think like this is a cancer on our society.

OP is sick in the head and spewing a lot of horseshit.


The US system is built like this
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 11:36     Subject: College tiers?
The need of some people to think like this is a cancer on our society.

OP is sick in the head and spewing a lot of horseshit.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 11:35     Subject: Re:College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:The overwhelming majority of parents at our private school, members of our country club, neighbors who live in $2M+ houses, executives at DH’s or my companies, did not attend any of the schools in OP’s post. However, someone on my team graduated from Harvard and makes $175k 15 years out of school, which is nice, but achievable from pretty much any school.

I will never get the obsession of people like OP. No one I know IRL cares this much about where their kids go. I’m guessing OP is the first gen in her family to achieve UMC and hasn’t been exposed to enough wealthy people to see the millions of paths to success that don’t involve a “Tier 1” school.


I agree with you on the first part, but do know lots of folks on the second. Even DH's cousin, who has a college admissions business and tells clients that there are "thousands of schools out there" with "many paths to success," would have died if her DCs did not attend one in the club or close enough. She is chiding the parent of a client on the phone about not being open minded about schools, then turns around and tells her DH that there is no way their DC is going to attend X state school as the DC will not meet the "right folks" there.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 10:58     Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:It’s not just newcomers, the old establishment also wants their kids to go to HPSM, Penn, Duke, Yale, Columbia, etc. regardless of what US News says


Agree, I think it’s these two groups- hyper-competitive newcomers & old establishment.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 09:57     Subject: Re:College tiers?
The overwhelming majority of parents at our private school, members of our country club, neighbors who live in $2M+ houses, executives at DH’s or my companies, did not attend any of the schools in OP’s post. However, someone on my team graduated from Harvard and makes $175k 15 years out of school, which is nice, but achievable from pretty much any school.

I will never get the obsession of people like OP. No one I know IRL cares this much about where their kids go. I’m guessing OP is the first gen in her family to achieve UMC and hasn’t been exposed to enough wealthy people to see the millions of paths to success that don’t involve a “Tier 1” school.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 09:53     Subject: College tiers?
Tier 1: Hillman College

Tier 2: California University, UC Sunnydale

Tier 3: Hogwarts, Beaubatons, Durmstrang

Tier 17: Faber University, Wassmotta U, Harrison University
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 09:40     Subject: College tiers?
WashU, Emory, CMU are not below Georgetown and Umich.
You have a vendetta. Umich has a 20% acceptance rate.
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2023 14:20     Subject: College tiers?
It’s not just newcomers, the old establishment also wants their kids to go to HPSM, Penn, Duke, Yale, Columbia, etc. regardless of what US News says
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2023 11:46     Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.


Welcome to the U.S.A.
I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.


Yeah, you are wrong.
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2023 11:43     Subject: Re:College tiers?

Rich Whites built up the cartel, but U.S.A tends to blame on the newcomers.

Anonymous
Post 12/06/2023 11:31     Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.


Welcome to the U.S.A.
I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.


There is a higher percentage of those new to the country who are misinformed about how the college attended affects outcomes, but really prestige obsession is distributed pretty well across the spectrum of Americans. It's truly sad.


yes but 'new to the country' people actually know better about how the college affects outcomes, hence they prefer real subjects such as CS, Engineering, Medical school, etc.
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2023 11:25     Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.


Welcome to the U.S.A.
I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.


Are you a newcomer to the US?
US is one of the few countries allowing rich people paying tens of millions of dollars to send their kids to prestigious schools if you didn't know.
It also have scandals like this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal
Mostly rich White Americans. U.S.A is obsessed with prestige.


Anonymous
Post 12/06/2023 11:17     Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - Faber College

Tier 2 - UC Sunnydale

Tier 3 - Harrison University

Tier 4 - Monsters University


Don't forget Coolidge College. California University was all the rage with the Beverly Hills crowd in the 90's.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2023 14:57     Subject: College tiers?
Really depends on major. I think it is generally ivy+ as tier 1, then t30 as tier 2 and then tier 3 is like Boston university and northeastern.