<p>I think you should get over the fact that ivy’s are amazing.</p>
<p>To be honest, I think that many universities are amazing. In the United States, we dedicate millions and billions of dollars at all levels of college, from research to undergraduate. We provide thousands of services for researchers, graduate students, to even helping those who are just now leaving home for the first time. Private donors or public funding, small or large, LAC or research university, many of the colleges of the United States are excellent, amazing even.</p>
<p>At MIT they’re working on providing laptops to every child in the world. At Yale, they’re creating an entire class of Ciceros. At Rutgers, they’re working on political awareness and new techniques in physics. At Rhodes they’re helping children recover from some of nature’s worst illnesses. </p>
<p>The Ivy League is nice, and they provide some great opportunities, but so do many American schools. Including, contrary to the belief of many, the flagship state universities. </p>
<p>I love that Columbia has a core curriculum, and that Brown has none at all, and that Harvard has more money than some nations do, and that Yale has the money to provide a residential college experience. But I also love the alma mater of the Chicago Boys, and too I love the alma mater of their leader- Rutgers.</p>
<p>I like that UVA was founded by Thomas Jefferson, and Penn by Ben Franklin. But I like that forward thinking schools exist too, techinical institutes to provide education for the modern world, Georgian Court or Barnard, which support a woman’s collegiate experience. Or NJIT that works in inner cities with technology. </p>
<p>I don’t mean to say that I want to attend every school in the United States, or even that every one is amazing. Some, frankly, aren’t.</p>
<p>I could never see myself at NJIT, but nor could I see myself at Dartmouth.
And, to be honest, I consider some schools to be nothing more than four year vacations, home of the sons of the wealthy, or those who pretend to be so. These schools aren’t, in my estimation, amazing or even good. </p>
<p>But there are a lot more than eight amazing schools.</p>