<p>If I'd meant to say they are Ivies in a strict sense, I would have called them de jure Ivies.</p>
<p>well i guess im not everyone cause i thought stanford was somewhere on the west coast (well it was when i was little) </p>
<p>we tend to disconnect from reality while we are on cc. most people dont give a damn about college admissions and dont know anything about them. as hard as it is to belive millions of people around the world (even in the usa) have never even heard of harvard (arguably the most famous) so yeah plenty of people dont know anything about which college is good and which is bad.</p>
<p>well, billions are more worried about drinking clean water for a change, so i believe you that some folks dont care about harvard</p>
<p>exactly, most people dont care. and hey, our bosses will be able to see past "ivy league" and can tell if we went to a good university. so who are we trying to impress? i guess its the people who know enough to know that the ivy league is good, but dont know enough to make judgement on who has the better program (in your major) its kinda of lame how you can impress someone instantly with "ivy league" and not with duke (everyone thinks its just good at b-ball and isnt prestigious, 2 years ago i thought the same way)</p>
<p>You went to Duke cuz you didn't get into Harvard...HAHAHA...your parents must have disowned you by now you dumbass. I mean settling for a second-rate school like Yale is one thing but...:p</p>
<p>I heard that Jesus really likes people that go to Ivy League schools (he went to Harvard duh). And pretty much if you don't go Ivy, you're going to hell.</p>
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<p>I heard Satan went to a state school.</p>
<p>I find it hard to understand why Brown gets ripped on as unprestigious... our school got 16 kids into stanford this year, and only the top-ranked student (1 person!) got into brown....</p>
<p>stanford's a lot easier to get into from where im standing.</p>
<p>That is a painfully small sample size to make any meaningful conclusions from.</p>
<p>Umm... hello i didnt say that you were supposed to extrapolate from it.</p>
<p>I'm just pointing out that SELECTIVITY is relative.</p>
<p>For example, if you're black and applying to Xavier, it doesn't add anything to your app. But if you're applying to Harvard, you get a bump. It's all a craps shoot, and this whole dick-measuring contest is absurd.</p>
<p>Stanford sucks because its mascot is a tree.
Harvard sucks because its president hates on women.
Yale sucks because its not Harvard.
Princeton sucks because it is too small.
Brown sucks because it is too liberal.
Penn sucks because everyone thinks its a state school.
Cornell sucks because every hates women.
Dartmouth sucks because its in the middle of nowhere.
MIT sucks because its full of nerds.
UChicago sucks because it is full of weirdos.
And every other college sucks for wanting to be one of those above.</p>
<p>however, the list does not suck</p>
<p>"I heard Satan went to a state school."</p>
<p>the University of Texas at El Paso. Theatre Major, with a Minor in Women's Studies. :p</p>
<p>^... he also got his master's in Engineering and Business at GA Tech ;).</p>
<p>HAHAHA I agree that prestige mongers are the same type of people who measured or still measure the sizes of their (yes, collective) *****. Seriously, everyone needs to stop directly attaching his or her pride to schools. It doesn't matter how much you impress the average Joe on the street (or peers) because usually the only opinions that truely matter are those of people with some significance in your life (who I hope will not disown you just because you didn't get into a top school). Oh, and graduating from some really good school doesn't mean much after you're dead. Just my opinions.</p>
<p>Yeah, not to mention the average income of Ivy graduates is not much higher than good state schools. Seems the ability to do the job correctly and efficiently is more important than where the degree comes from.</p>
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<p>Not true... your grandkids can get legacy status at certain schools!</p>
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<p>Nothing matters after you die, so why even bother doing anything?</p>
<p>mit def a great ivy quality school- but stanford you dont know what youre talking about. the school is beneath duke and mit - its just a big deal on the wasted west coast</p>
<p>If by "west coast" you mean "entire nation and many parts of the world" then yes.</p>
<p>"Oh, and graduating from some really good school doesn't mean much after you're dead."</p>
<p>Pssssh. Yeah right. Ivy League grads get all the best food/sleeping accomadations in heaven.</p>