<p>1.) You need to realize that the sole purpose of college is to brag to your friends/relatives/colleagues/etc.</p>
<p>2.) Choose the easiest major you can get into for the school you are planning on transferring to.</p>
<p>3.) Always keep in mind that if you don't graduate from the top 10 schools (based on Newsweek), you will fail at life.</p>
<p>4.) If you end up at school that ranks outside of top 10, the first thing you should do is to immediately prepare to transfer to a better (meaning higher ranking) school.</p>
<p>5.) If you attend Harvard, you are the smartest person on Earth so you have right to put down those who do not attend Harvard.</p>
<p>6.) You should never ever befriend people who goes to public universities because they are total failures.</p>
<p>This is funny, considering the source. Unless your outlook has been completely altered in a very short span of time. </p>
<p>As always, to each their own. But it just seems odd that the kid who's been so adamently obsessed with rankings and, well, prestige has suddently become Captain Sarcastic about those very topics.</p>
<p>I really, really don't mean to be antagonistic. I'm just perplexed. Aren't you the one who championed the US news report as it was about to be released? And haven't you sparked various discussions/debates/smackdowns regarding the prestige of various programs and how they're not up to your personal standards? </p>
<p>Well, I don't know what the original poster said before, but to be perfectly fair, US News named a lot of non-Ivy, not-traditionally-prestigious schools in their top rankings. At least, that's what I recall.</p>
<p>I think the original poster was being a tad sarcastic...
Ai! Alas I think many of my high school classmates conciously subscribe to the doctrine laid out by dhl3...</p>