<p>What would happen if we took a normally lesser selective college and put all the Ivy league's applications on it (and assume it is their number 1)?</p>
<p>Then would it be a prestigious college? Wouldn't we have the environment, the place for employers to recruit, etc?</p>
<p>Of course it can be said then, the people would go to the next best college if rejected~but just what if hypothetically they all decided to go to some college that people simply overlook for the socially "better" ones?</p>
<p>“What would happen if we took a normally lesser selective college and put all the Ivy league’s applications on it (and assume it is their number 1)?”</p>
<p>I’m sure there are many colleges already like this, but they’re not as prestigious because of tradition. (Harvard and Yale are really freaking old.)
Many students are qualified for Ivy League schools but don’t get in (or don’t apply), and they go to other colleges and do just as well as they would have at a more prestigious school. Prestigious colleges have to reject a lot of qualified applicants and there are a lot of brilliant students in a lot of colleges - not just brand-name ones.</p>
<p>~Good answer… I just have the feel that high test scores etc are just pulling up the school’s ranking when really you can just cluster a bunch of willing people. I just feel the condescension by the top school folks in my region… I get pretty defensive about the school I attend when I often get criticism that I could’ve gone to a better one, but how hard is it to get into electrical engineering these days when the computer science counterpart of it draws all the smart people from the world~while I can find a really good EE program as close as the commuter school in the area that I live in.</p>