"Don't send your kid to Ivy Leagues -- unless you want a zombie"

College Search & Selection
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<p>Have you all read this new piece in the New Republic by a former professor at Yale?
<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere"&gt;http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>With damning paragraphs like this:
"These enviable youngsters appear to be the winners in the race we have made of childhood. But the reality is very different, as I have witnessed in many of my own students and heard from the hundreds of young people whom I have spoken with on campuses or who have written to me over the last few years. Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it."</p>

<p>The entire article is a true thinker....but if you're a student (or parent of) going to an academically-strong LAC or a public university, this article is a very positive endorsement of that route.....</p>

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<p>It’s being discussed here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1670550-the-nation-s-top-colleges-are-turning-our-kids-into-zombies.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1670550-the-nation-s-top-colleges-are-turning-our-kids-into-zombies.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks! I had a feeling that it had to be elsewhere…I will try to delete this one.</p>

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<p>Very intriguing article. The author does a nice job of showing why elite can equate to stifled. </p>