<p>Why is it pretentious? Are you REALLY that full of yourself?</p>
<p>They claim “We have found that alumni of these schools generally share some of the same values, including: appreciation of academic and professional excellence; intellectual curiosity; leadership; and civic and philanthropic engagement” </p>
<p>(1) That’s very pompous to claim that ONLY these schools have these things, because that’s clearly not true</p>
<p>(2) Why are schools that clearly have these things not included? Who’s arbitrarily decided what schools do and do not have this type of person? Did they interview all of the people, conduct research and find that ONLY these schools attract that type of person? If they did, I’d love to see their sources. </p>
<p>Someone, arbitrarily decided that “these XYZ schools are better than these other XYZ schools”, even though that statement is clearly false. </p>
<p>Where are the following schools?:</p>
<p>Swarthmore
Tufts
Brandies
NYU
UNC-CH
U Michigan
UCLA
UVa
Williams
Pomona
Middlebury
Bowdoin
Rice
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Emory
Carnegie Mellon
USC
Wake Forest
BC
GaTech</p>
<p>Why have these schools, to name a few, been excluded? Do they produce less alumni who have an appreciation of academic and professional excellence; intellectual curiosity; leadership; and civic and philanthropic engagement? I don’t think so. Some of these schools have produced world-leading thinkers, as well as having world-leading faculty.</p>