Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

Perhaps because you know they won’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy grad who will not send my kids. Look take your own risks, call me names and tell me my kids can't get in (they can). The ivy league has become complete garbage. Even if your child does not participate in this cult like behavior, too many employers will be afraid to hire them. No way I would invest the money in an ivy education anymore. Zero return on investment and too much risk of what the education will do to my children.

I put the odds of your actually having attended an Ivy at about 15%, but please go on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

+2000

+100,000

Anonymous wrote:Ivy grad who will not send my kids. Look take your own risks, call me names and tell me my kids can't get in (they can). The ivy league has become complete garbage. Even if your child does not participate in this cult like behavior, too many employers will be afraid to hire them. No way I would invest the money in an ivy education anymore. Zero return on investment and too much risk of what the education will do to my children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivy grad who will not send my kids. Look take your own risks, call me names and tell me my kids can't get in (they can). The ivy league has become complete garbage. Even if your child does not participate in this cult like behavior, too many employers will be afraid to hire them. No way I would invest the money in an ivy education anymore. Zero return on investment and too much risk of what the education will do to my children.

Doubt you are really an Ivy grad cause people would not curse their padigree unless something like their kids wasn't let in their alma mater.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

Sorry, but protests are happening in Canada and the UK. McGill and Oxford already have protests going on.
Seriously, though, this is what students do. They protest, and when you have very large protests that happen internationally, you should listen. Students were not wrong about Vietnam or South Africa, even though at the time students were criticized by people probably like you for being naive, unpatriotic, hypocritical, etc.

uh, the same parent who posted this (harvard, harvard law) currently has a kid at Oxford. you are wrong. nice try but you never considererd the truth did you?

Anonymous wrote:My son has been accepted to a couple Ivy League schools and I just wanted to hear opinions from others, what are some of the benefits of an Ivy over another top 50 school?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no "instant credibility for life" as stated by another poster for most Ivy league schools.

Princeton and U Penn-Wharton along with Harvard arguably provide the most assumed credibility.

But when one shares that he/she is a graduate of Brown, Penn (non-Wharton grads), Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, or Yale, thoughts other than credibility come to mind.

Broadly speaking, an Ivy League degree suggests that one is smart, hard-working,and ambitious--but, this is true for graduates of northwestern, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, JHU, Duke, WashUStL, Emory, Berkeley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, the 3 main service academies, Georgia Tech, CS and engineering majors from many state flagships and many other schools. My assumption is that these non-Ivy grads are just as qualified as any Ivy grad except regarding U Penn-Wharton. I also assume that these non-Ivy grads choose not to pursue any Ivy League education.

PP here.

I sort of agree, but don't think that state school grads get the same presumption of being "smart, hard-working and ambitious" absent other tangible evidence of accomplishment (grades, career accomplishments, etc.).

I don't AGREE with this, but it holds true in my experience.

It depends on the major.

It's safe to assume that anyone graduating with a degree in CS or Engineering from Georgia Tech, UIUC, Purdue, Berkeley, UMD, Texas, Washington, or Michigan is smarter and more accomplished than their counterparts in the same majors at Yale or Brown.

That doesn't make any sense. Perhaps you mean anyone accepted OOS to those schools? Even then...the career outcomes don't justify anything you indicate.

Take a look at the WSJ highest paying undergrads for all STEM fields. Nearly every Ivy League school shows better career outcomes compared to every state school you list for STEM jobs. Only Berkeley registers when comparing the schools. UMD doesn't even make a single one of the lists for STEM careers.

https://www.wsj.com/news/collection/college-pay-80428504

Anonymous wrote:Ivy grad who will not send my kids. Look take your own risks, call me names and tell me my kids can't get in (they can). The ivy league has become complete garbage. Even if your child does not participate in this cult like behavior, too many employers will be afraid to hire them. No way I would invest the money in an ivy education anymore. Zero return on investment and too much risk of what the education will do to my children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no "instant credibility for life" as stated by another poster for most Ivy league schools.

Princeton and U Penn-Wharton along with Harvard arguably provide the most assumed credibility.

But when one shares that he/she is a graduate of Brown, Penn (non-Wharton grads), Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, or Yale, thoughts other than credibility come to mind.

Broadly speaking, an Ivy League degree suggests that one is smart, hard-working,and ambitious--but, this is true for graduates of northwestern, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, JHU, Duke, WashUStL, Emory, Berkeley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, the 3 main service academies, Georgia Tech, CS and engineering majors from many state flagships and many other schools. My assumption is that these non-Ivy grads are just as qualified as any Ivy grad except regarding U Penn-Wharton. I also assume that these non-Ivy grads choose not to pursue any Ivy League education.

PP here.

I sort of agree, but don't think that state school grads get the same presumption of being "smart, hard-working and ambitious" absent other tangible evidence of accomplishment (grades, career accomplishments, etc.).

I don't AGREE with this, but it holds true in my experience.

It depends on the major.

It's safe to assume that anyone graduating with a degree in CS or Engineering from Georgia Tech, UIUC, Purdue, Berkeley, UMD, Texas, Washington, or Michigan is smarter and more accomplished than their counterparts in the same majors at Yale or Brown.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

Sorry, but protests are happening in Canada and the UK. McGill and Oxford already have protests going on.
Seriously, though, this is what students do. They protest, and when you have very large protests that happen internationally, you should listen. Students were not wrong about Vietnam or South Africa, even though at the time students were criticized by people probably like you for being naive, unpatriotic, hypocritical, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

+2000

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)