<p>YES! The Semi normal people thread!!!lol</p>
<p>I do NOT want to go to an ivy…I want to ENJOY my undergrad years…WORK HARD PARTY HARD is my motto…but it wont b if i was at an ivyy!!</p>
<p>Ivys are fine schools great schools,but not for me. I would DO a state schoool…yes a STATE school…WHY?</p>
<p>Because it is freaking fun…
Ivys are for grad school.lol</p>
<p>Wanting to go to an Ivy League school is certainly not “disgusting”! It is perfectly alright for a high achieving student with ambition amd qualification to dream of attending one of these schools. While “prestige” may come with the experience, most students attend these schools for learning purposes, to pursue their own academic goals, and further their careers. Another stereotype is that all the students attending an Ivy are “preppy”, “snobby”, and “spoiled”; in fact, many students are international and/or require financial aid, making for a richly diverse environment. Yes, there are many other great schools in the country, but this still does not mean there is anything wrong with “shooting for the Ivies”. It’s just one of those things that’s for some and not for others.</p>
<p>I had a 2340 SAT and didn’t apply to a single ivy. </p>
<p>it all depends on if they are strong in what you want to do. in biomedical engineering (not pre-med) for instance, Duke, MIT, Caltech, Rice, JHU, and even strong state schools like Georgia Tech and UCSD are equally good or better options.</p>
<p>obviously though, for many people an ivy, (particularly HYP) will offer the best possible education. having an ivy league school as your first choice JUST because it is in the ivy league is asinine; discounting it completely because of its ivy league status is just as silly.</p>
<p>I’m not interested in an Ivy school but maybe it’s because I haven’t really looked into them. I completely agree with theyeaman that you shouldn’t discount an Ivy just for being an Ivy or vice versa, you should treat every University the same in terms of looking for what you want.</p>
<p>I’m not into the whole Ivy thing. Mainly because I’ve researched schools that are specific to my major (International Relations)… so Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Tufts are at the top of my list!! Do any of you feel pressure from your families to apply to Ivies? My mom attended Harvard Law, my uncle went to Harvard for grad school, and my aunt attended Columbia for all of her schooling. They always make feel super uncomfortable because I don’t have any interest in them! :/</p>
<p>Rob1995, that is not true of the ivy population. You’ll find many people like yourself.
After attending Harvard prefrosh weekend, I hardly met people of that 80% you describe (which is not 80%). More people are at full/close to full rides than you think. </p>
<p>Just putting my two cents in. If anyone has questions/comments, PM me because I won’t be coming back to this thread :P</p>
<p>Btw I’ll be attend the Big H in the fall.</p>
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<p>That’s Penn’s motto, yo.</p>
<p>Even if I could get in, I would never be able to succeed at any of them.</p>
<p>MIT is my dream school, not an Ivy I know, but the Ivies aren’t the only good schools out there. I just really like the atmosphere at MIT, I’d definitely turn down an Ivy if I was accepted into MIT, which is better than some Ivies and on par with others anyway.</p>
<p>Not interested in the Ivies at all. It’s my intended major (Music Theatre) that precludes them for me. However, I think I’d love to go to grad school at Yale down the line for their MFA in Acting. For me, the school itself doesn’t factor into my criteria for post-secondary education. It’s how their program is structured and how it suits my needs.</p>
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<p>Actually that is true. I liked Penn the most of all the IVYs, I visited and liked it a lot. …okay maybe i will apply there…but im still not an ivy person. lol</p>
<p>I am only applying to a couple of ivies because they are need blind for internationals ;)</p>
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<p>I dunno, it kind of makes me die a little inside when almost every poster in a ‘top 3 dream school’ thread says Harvard/Penn/…"</p>
<p>…Yeah, I don’t even know all of the Ivies. </p>
<p>I’d actually be genuinely happy at my state U.</p>
<p>^ Why does it make you die a lil inside? What if the person has some legitimate reasons to want to go to an ivy/will be genuinely happy there? </p>
<p>I understand not being interested in them, but I don’t understand having a negative attitude towards them.</p>
<p>“dying inside” because of feelings of inadequacy, maybe?</p>
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<p>Because a lot of the people who say that are younger than I am, and I remember when I was just a freshman; I seriously considered (not even seriously, because I had no idea what I wanted to do) going to Harvard because it sounded cool and famous and blah blah. I’d be lying if I said I actually understood anything about the college application process and what college is like. How many kids have actually thought about it before they say, “Oh, Harvard is my dream school?” There are more colleges out there than Harvard/any other Ivy.</p>
<p>I definitely don’t have a negative attitude towards Ivies; it’s more of an eye-roll when I see chance threads made by freshman who give off the aura of “Ivy or bust.”</p>
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<p>Sorry, my dream isn’t to go to Harvard, especially because they don’t have undergrad nursing. ;)</p>
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<p>I have the same attitude towards those chance threads/people too, but it doesn’t extend to the schools themselves.</p>
<p>I’d like to go to Columbia if I could get in, but my dream school is really NYU. I also really love Elon and UNC-CH.</p>
<p>FIGHT ON! Serious hotties there. And hey isn’t that the reason we live? Create a family and be happy?</p>
<p>I’m not a high-achieving student, the only place I was pressured by my mother to apply to was her alma mater. Never mind that to go to Ohio State like she did would require paying out of state tuition (although she’s CERTAIN there’s an in-state tuition scholarship with my name on it). She was convinced that I would be just as happy there as she was even though I hate the weather in Ohio, the city of Columbus, and very large schools.</p>