This is more like a pole inspired by another post. The question is:
From a scale 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.
How important is it for you to go to an IVY league school?(1-10)
and if you answer from 7-10 then answer this question as well
What at most will you be willing to do, if doing it, guranteed you a spot at an IVY league school?
<p>I was about a 5ish. That was because I just wanted to rock my GPA before I transfered. And I did.</p>
<p>But really, not much. For grad school, however, it's a different story. Since three of my 5 top choices are Ivies (Kennedy, Wilson, Columbia) and two are not (Goldman, IR/PS) I have to say that it's a 10. What am I willing to do? ROCK HARD.</p>
<p>Diversify myself.</p>
<p>Drink till she's cute.</p>
<p>Kill the GRE.</p>
<p>Have a blast in college, and still get into one of them. :-D</p>
<p>Drink till she's cute.</p>
<p>Haha. Don't up the standards of the girl. Lower your standards with alcohol. Sounds about right to me.</p>
<p>cool, so wat are u majoring in?</p>
<p>Major(ed). Please. I don't want to do it again. Hah.</p>
<p>I majored in political science and minored in Japanese.</p>
<p>Oh, my one BIG recommendation to any future student here: take a foreign language. </p>
<p>Then go study abroad for a year.</p>
<p>well tho i applied to 2 ivies and was rejected by both, i was not really upset or anything so i guess 4 or so.....
grad might be another story :p</p>
<p>hey neha 1 are u from singapor, this is cool, i know someone from singapor.</p>
<p>Good. I guarantee you that you probably could have gotten into other "non-Ivy" top-25 options anyway.</p>
<p>And here's the secret to grad school: Most of the Ivies suck in my field. There, I said it.</p>
<p>::Waits for the ranking whores to get upset::</p>
<p>yeah deep123, i have been livin there for over 6 yrs now tho i am indian citizen :)</p>
<p>2-3. Ivies are way out of my league (hah. no pun intended), even though Columbia has been a dream since about 5th grade. I dropped that off my "apply" list because it's just too unrealistic for me. I think I'd probably prefer a public (which is what I'll attend this fall) than a private, anyway.</p>
<p>Don't think that way. Just apply anyway if you can afford it.</p>
<p>Well...I applied to 3 Ivies, rescinded two after being accepted ED to Columbia.</p>
<p>So I guess before it was like a 6, but i guess now its a 10 because I am going.</p>
<p>hey, neha1, where did you go to school before singpore</p>
<p>1 </p>
<p>I didn't apply to any Ivies (even though I was told to by ppl on this board...)</p>
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<li>I'm going to be applying to 2-3 next year (brown, princeton, possibly yale), but I know I have a .00000000000001 chance of getting in even as a urm. As long as I get a decent education, I'm all good. I'm applying to where I'm going to be applying based on my priorities, and prestige isn't one of them.</li>
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<p>i am a 1. i am not into the whole ivy league thing especially since they all suck in engineering.
i will be going to berkeley this fall. i fell in love w/ the school.
go bears!</p>
<p>Although I will be applying to Penn, it's not because it's an Ivy-League school. It's because it's a well respected school with excellent programs in the sciences in an unbelievable location...</p>
<p>I'll give you a 2. It's not important that I get accepted by an "Ivy-League" school, but rather by a good school: ex, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Berkley: not Ivy-League but pretty darn good.</p>
<p>Matt</p>
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<li>I don't care about ivy league. i just care about the best of my future major</li>
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<p>i dont care about the ivies cause there are many schools just as good or better than them...i do care though for HYP (not that i got in any of em =/)</p>
<p>then why are u always frickin out chanman about penn</p>