Any Ivy League Graduates?

[audiophilia]

Chicago
Georgetown
Berkeley
Stanford
MIT
Caltech

even Vanderbilt and Duke

Great, world class universities. Non Ivy.

Let's not forget McGill and University of Toronto! LOL

 

[dopey]

I got some Ivy degrees at the Saks sale, but I feel like I have learned as much on my own.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by audiophilia

Chicago
Georgetown
Berkeley
Stanford
MIT
Caltech

even Vanderbilt and Duke

Great, world class universities. Non Ivy.

Let's not forget McGill and University of Toronto! LOL

There's a much longer list of world class schools that aren't ivy leagues than that.

Obvious ones would be Northwestern, Swarthmore, Emory etc...

 

[Connemara]

I feel like the Northwesterns and Emorys of the world have less name cachet than they should.

Then again, I think only DUMBER PPLZ have this perspective. Most people with a good education will know that Northwestern and Emory are very good universities.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by Connemara

I feel like the Northwesterns and Emorys of the world have less name cachet than they should.

Then again, I think only DUMBER PPLZ have this perspective. Most people with a good education will know that Northwestern and Emory are very good universities.

Yes they definitely do, except for Medill and Kellogg. Northwestern is ranked #11 or 12 in all the famous lists or whatever, but I doubt most people know it.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by SField

Yes they definitely do, except for Medill and Kellogg. Northwestern is ranked #11 or 12 in all the famous lists or whatever, but I doubt most people know it.
Yep. They have a really great history department there. One of my favorite historians got his PhD at Northwestern.

 

[randallr]

I wish this thread would die. It has become one huge ePenis contest.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by randallr

I wish this thread would die. It has become one huge ePenis contest.

Ah, public school?

 

[MetroStyles]

Unrelated, but my e-penis is 9 parsecs long.

 

[Xiaogou]

Did you have 501 with Minozzi or Smith?

Originally Posted by Connemara

Intro. to Historical Methods (pretty much alerady took this but they did not count the specific course

)
Bio 101 (science requirement)
Poli. Sci. 501

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by Xiaogou

Did you have 501 with Minozzi or Smith?
Minozzi. He's a good guy, did you have him?

 

[leftover_salmon]

Originally Posted by SField

Yes they definitely do, except for Medill and Kellogg. Northwestern is ranked #11 or 12 in all the famous lists or whatever, but I doubt most people know it.

I hate Northwestern and think it's an overrated school. Don't feel like getting into why (and no, I neither applied to nor was I rejected from it).

 

[scwtlover]

Originally Posted by bluemagic

Some people simply aren't intellectual. I am, but most are not, and would not take advantage of the opportunities available at a school such as mine. Even most of the people at my school aren't purely "intellectual"; this isn't some kind of thinkers' bohemia (you'd have to wait for a PhD program for that), but I do think the vast majority of people here have that element in them.

I think it really comes down to this; would you rather have a conversation with people from a state school, or a traditional elite private school? I'd rather have the conversation with the latter, but many people would rather talk to the former. It doesn't mean anything positive or negative, it's just a preference.

I have three degrees from a prestigious Ivy school. My older child, who went to a state school, got a fabulous education; met good, intelligent people; and was accepted and wooed by the three Ivy Ph.D. programs to which she applied.

George Bush graduated from Yale and Harvard Business School.

 

[Dashaansafin]

Overrated: WashU, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Emory, Brown

Underrated: Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame

 

[BYucko]

Johns Hopkins is not underrated.