Are Ivys everything?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Well actually, I was planning to get my bachelors at a state school, then, if I can, transfer to an Ivy for my masters, which I guess might defeat the purpose of this post…but what about the guy who did all 6 years at the Ivy?</p>

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<p>It depends if you want to go into investment banking a degree from a top 10 is a must. Especially from Whorton, Harvard or Stern.</p>

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<p>Well like I said, I wanna be a marketer, so not like a CEO or some financial guru of a company, but still in the business circle</p>

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<p>There are great marketers who never went to college, went to a non-descript college and may be some to Ivies. I suspect none of them actually have a personality that is concerned about which college they cant get into.</p>

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<p>Oh and when I say marketer, I don’t mean the guy who calls you at 6pm saying "If you are looking to trade in your old tv’s for a new one, come to <em>insert </em><em>ty store here</em>, I mean more like the PR representative of a corporation or something lol.</p>

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<p>Be a husky! Screw ivy’s.</p>

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<p>It’ll be ALRIGHT</p>

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<p>If you asked people outside of CC if you could only be successful by going to an Ivy, they’d laugh and say no (you could probably ask a student or alumnus from an Ivy and they’d give this answer).</p>

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<p>Well, most Ivy League alumni end up in a normal job, living a normal life, and they’re perfectly content with their lives.</p>

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<p>go to UW. You can always go to the Ivies for grad/business school.</p>

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<p>Warren Buffet went to UNL (University of NB Lincoln) and he is the richest investor in the world. </p>

<p>IVY’s are not everything, in fact only one Ivy (PENN Wharton) has a business program, and only about half are that good for business/econ. Chicago>Yale, Brown, Dartmouth etc. for econ. Northwestren, Notre Dame, UMICH etc. >over the same schools for business.</p>

<p>Really in your field PENN and Harvard are the only schools with a distinct advantage over other good schools.</p>

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Schools like MIT and Caltech have higher ROIs than the entire Ivy League Sports Conference. Others never included in the acronyms, like Notre Dame (business school has #1 ROI) are higher than half the Ivy League Sports Conference for monetary success of graduates.</p>

<p>However, “success” does not mean “monetary success,” and being a successful/happy/meaningful person in life has nothing to do with where you went to college (if at all).</p>

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<p>You’re only “average” if that’s what you’re striving for. Which you inadvertently are at this point.</p>

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<p>Stanford, MIT, Caltech…uhhhh? Non-Ivies?</p>

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“Ivy League school –> cushy well-paying job” seems like a pretty damn average idea of success to me.</p>

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<p>Who are you to judge?</p>

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I have been raptured…</p>

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<p>LOL. I understand that you’re trying to emphasize its origin, but I think it’s pretty hilarious how you spell out the “sports conference” part in all your posts…</p>

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I’ll stop writing it when people start remembering it’s what “Ivy League” means.</p>

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<p>But to answer the OP’s question, yes, you can be successful without going to an Ivy League school. In fact, most ivy league school graduates end up living very average lives…</p>

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<p>BillyMc, I’ll agree any day that there are plenty of schools that are as good as, if not better than, some of the members of the Ivy League. I’ll also agree that the Ivy League was originally a sports conference, but I do think that to say that the Ivy League does not stand for anything else today other than its origin as a sports conference is of something between denial and naivete.</p>