Why do you want to attend an Ivy League?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>To each his own. The most important factors for success are hard work and perseverance. No school gives those, you are born with them.</p>

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<p>Where did Warren Buffet go to undergrad?</p>

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<p>University of Nebraska :)</p>

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<p>Thank you Niquii77 .It is what you make it.</p>

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<p>^Also Wharton and Columbia.</p>

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He got his undergrad from the University of Nebraska. </p>

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<p>I’m poor, so if I went to my state flagship school I’d end up having to pay more than I would if I got into and went to an Ivy League. (Yaayyyy budget cuts) Of course, there are schools that give good need-based scholarships and are not Ivy League, and I would love to attend any one of those as well. Lastly, my parents want me to get into an Ivy League so they can brag about it to their friends, as most asian parents are wont to do.
EDIT: However, I will be the first one to preach to you for days about how it’s not where you go but what you do that determines your success in life. There’s nothing I hate more than seeing one of my seniors get denied from a good school even though she works incredibly hard, whereas someone else who’s privileged and cheats all the time gets accepted, however, we all know who will end up with the better lot in life.</p>

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<p>I want to go to Columbia, not an Ivy league school. I see little similarities between many of them.</p>

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<p>Stop bagging on starlily, guys xD She’s totally correct. And it annoys me that no one goes to school to learn anymore. Sure, you could “read a book,” but it’s not the same. No one cares about enjoying life anymore, just the money aspect… The world will be over soon enough :P</p>

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<p>And cardoza, Columbia is an Ivy League school, also where I want to go x)</p>

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<p>TooLegit: I’m sorry if my point wasn’t clear then. I was merely trying to state my opinion that it is stupid to so carelessly group the schools based on a title. I hate the phrases “Ivy bound”, “I applied to the Ivies”, and “I just want to go to an Ivy”, because to me all the schools are so different. That being said, I want to attend Columbia for Columbia. Not an Ivy league school because it is an Ivy league school. Sorry if it didn’t make sense.</p>

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<p><em>looks around</em> Who was bagging on starlily, TooLegit?</p>

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<p>honestly… the connections and the people you will know and be friends with during your 4 years of university. it can really give you a boost when you graduate and know so many people from diverse backgrounds that can help you out one way or another in the future…</p>

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<p>They have THE BEST education and have some scientific research opportunities that I would love to pursue in college. </p>

<p>Also, they have GREAT programs and labs for my major.</p>

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<p>Obama: Harvard Law
Bush: Yale, Harvard
Romney: Harvard
Scalia: Harvard Law
Clarence Thomas: Yale Law
Ted Cruz: Princeton, Harvard Law
Bill Clinton: Yale Law
JFK: Harvard
etc etc etc</p>

<p><a href=“List of Harvard University people - Wikipedia”>List of Harvard University people - Wikipedia;

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yale_University_people[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yale_University_people&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>First two years of undergrad studies at Wharton School of Business at U Penn. Next two years at U of Nebraska from where he earned his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration. Then, did a masters from Columbia University, because Benjamin Graham author of The Intelligent Investor was teaching there.</p>

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He got his undergrad from the University of Nebraska. </p>

<p>The orginal question asked where he received his undergrad. His graduate studies are irrelevant. </p>

<p>We’ve been through this before…

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<p>If someone asked the names of the universities Buffett has attended, your answer would suffice.</p>

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<p>The connections, prestige and the great programs. I just think that there are a lot more opportunities at ivies compared to other schools.</p>

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<p>If you are planning to go to graduate school, it is not necessary, or perhaps even relevant, to look at the generic prestige of the undergrad school. The more important thing is to look at the school’s track record of getting its students to the next step. When I arrived at a private medical school from a state university, it was amazing to me how many of my classmates had attended LACs like Dickinson, Denison, and Kalamazoo. LACs outnumbered the Ivies and their graduates were some of the top students in the class. Science PhD programs like the LACs as well since the students will almost always have had scientific research experience with faculty. As far as going directly into the work force, my son is at WPI, thrilled with the collaborative environment, and he has only a 10% chance of being jobless at graduation. Not sure odds of employment are better in the Ivy League. Fitting the school to the student’s need is critical–not just a cliche.</p>

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<p>Because Stanford wall diplomas look really silly with that tree they have embedded in them.</p>