<p>To illustrate that point:</p>
<p>The president of information technology at my wife's company (a Fortune 50 firm) was the roommate at Cornell of the CEO's son.</p>
<p>This thread is beginning to sound like Hot</a> Ivy's infamous flame war.</p>
<p>no the other thread is more spicy
i'm surprised no one sent the thread to harvard, where she's supposedly at now</p>
<p>I go to school with a lot of Asians and you are right, they are that way</p>
<p>i competely agree with everything said on here.</p>
<p>many asians make these kinds of threads... and it rather bothers me. i'm nothing like that and i hate having people think that asians are like that.</p>
<p>Damn, just read the Hot Ivy thread, and this is NOWHERE near it. People on this thread are still respectful of each other. . .</p>
<p>holyspirit, I completely agree that a college degree will definitely help one in earning money down the road. But outside of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Stanford, the networking abilities of colleges are not the overriding factors in landing jobs. Sure, the more prestigious the school is, the better, but will an employer REALLY take a kid from Dartmouth over, say, Notre Dame (my top choice) just because of the Ivy league degree?</p>
<p>my cousin graduated Penn with a degree in English. Wanna know what she's doing?</p>
<p>SHES A BOOK STORE EMPLOYEE</p>
<p>My dad with an accounting degree from Delaware makes 2x as much as her. My mom with a nursing degree from delaware makes 1.5x as much(my mom works part time, but Im ballparking here)</p>
<p>You gotta be kidding me.</p>
<p>no</p>
<p>3 of my teachers this year have ivy degrees</p>
<p>2 penn 1 yale</p>
<p>my math teacher has an MBA from Wharton,. and an undergrad from Penn (he obviously chooses to teach)</p>
<p>Ivy =/= money</p>
<p>"I don't want to be labeled as racist (and I am Asian-American myself), but, unfortunately, it's usually the Asians who come up with these kinds of posts. They see college as some sort of commodity, not a place for a personalized education."</p>
<p>Whoa, thats an overstatement which is not cool at all. I am Indian, and yeah its true that Indians (yes we are asian), can get uber competitive. Its the enviroment we are raised in, most of our parents are immigrants and truly value the education offered here and therefore push us to do very well. </p>
<p>However the statement that we see college as a commodity is really unfair to say. Personally, I wanna go liberal arts which almost unheard of in traditional asian families. I have many Indian friends who are looking for the perfect college that fits them and in the process have given up acceptances to top Ivies in order to go to a state school. </p>
<p>We (Asians) value education, and therefore want the very best. However the assumption we (as in ALL of us) do not go around trouncing colleges that are "sub par" (which they are not) is not true. Yes some asians are like that, but you can't sterotype the rest as the same.</p>
<p>Let's get past silly insults and to the facts. Half of Princeton's class is filled before they get to the average applicant. First there are the athletes, then legacies, development candidates, URM and people with world class talents/accomplishment. </p>
<p>Then they begin to look at the thousands upon thousands of well rounded kids with amazing stats. They reject half the 1600s, half the vals. They reject kids no one can believe they rejected because they have been stellar their entire lives. </p>
<p>So in all honesty, you probably have a 10% chance. The actual average they take. Figure there were many who had a 99% chance (they knew who they are), about the same number who have no chance (no where near acceptable stats) and then the high achiever non hooked candidate who is hit by the arrow or not.</p>
<p>Guys, guess what, I got in. So screw all you flamers.
I will follow up with another equally stunning christmas present later.</p>
<p>ivy=/=money</p>
<p>my chem teacher went to princeton/harvard/johns hopkins and he's still a chem teacher in a public high school and that doesn't pay much</p>
<p>and congrats</p>
<p>congrats princetonfreak, but youre a snobby jerk. i hope you don't act this way to people who actually want to know you</p>
<p>princeton, hows your social life?</p>
<p>agreed with treblechamps.</p>
<p>congrats anyways.</p>
<p>Thank You all for your replies i am waiting to see what Holy Spirit says before i disclose my biggest surprise yet.........................</p>