<p>“Why do you spend countless hours doing schoolwork and extracurricular activities just to get into an Ivy (or similar caliber school)?”</p>
<p>I would just like to point out that the OP completely undermined the whole purpose of the thread with the statement above. The whole issue that people have with those who love the ivies is that they love them because they are the ivies. By saying “or similar caliber schools,” the OP takes that away and is now implying (rather stupidly) that there is something wrong with wanting to go to a top-level college just because it will provide a high quality education.</p>
<p>For the people. I go to an inner-city school currently, and while we are considered highly it’s difficult for some of my friends to understand some of my allusions. </p>
<p>I want to go to Columbia because I feel like anyone who would go there wants a rigorous and well-rounded education. The core is amazing, and I would want to know that if I made a literary reference to King Lear that it would be understood by all of my peers. </p>
<p>It’s in New York, far enough from my parents, and I would like to become just a tad more worldly. :)</p>
<p>I have wanted to go to Harvard since I was really young. Basically, I want to go there because they have a wonderful campus, amazing recourses, brilliant professors who are passionate about their majors, and students with the same thirst for knowledge that I have.I love the idea of going to a school where everyone has the same energy and drive that I have.</p>
<p>I want to be surrounded by intelligent & successful people. Yes, ivy leagues are not a measure of success. However, look at the ivies for a moment. Harvard has its fair share of presidents and Columbia has more than its fair share of Nobel Laureates. Not to mention that some of the most successful people in the country (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) have gone to ivy-tier schools. When I say ivy schools feel free to include your caltechs and MITs (though they are not ivy). </p>
<p>You can go on and on about the status quo and why you shouldnt follow it but the fact of the matter is that ivies attract the best and brightest. Thus, you will have a greater chance of meeting such people there. I for one want to be overwhelmed with intellectual discussions and amazing lectures.</p>
<p>(Not me talking here) Money. Out generation is obsessed with money. It doesn’t even occur to most people that someone might be going to college to learn something. However, what most people don’t realize is that the high average incomes of Ivy League alumni is less correlated with what school they went to than it is with the type of ambitious and cutthroat attitudes that the Ivy League tends to attract.</p>
<p>^two separate points.
Princeton is nice. Yale too. Penn XP same ->. Harvard eh, I haven’t seen all of it.Brown :D. Columbia from what I’ve heard there’s a lack of grass, not good, tsktsk. Cornell- haven’t seen in person. Dartmouth- haven’t seen in person.</p>
<p>I hate Brown’s campus. Everything looks the same. They need to go switch chapels and libraries with Trinity College and maybe try using a style other than Georgian for some of the buildings</p>
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<p>…because that means that there are going to be d*****bags that only want to go there because it is an Ivy League so that they can get a job on Wall Street or as a plastic surgeon so that they can take people’s money so that they can drive their black Hummer to work everyday from their house in New Canaan. idk if I can hate an education institution; it just means I would never go to Princeton. Hopefully Brown is the lesser of 8 evils.</p>
<p>Oooh, we seem to have moved onto saying what we dislike about each Ivy League campus architecture. This shall be good for when I get rejected.
“Anyway, University of _________ has way better, um, buildings…”</p>
<p>they’ll be everywhere, suck it up. Most people aren’t like that and if judge a school based on them that’s your problem. You have to remember that these are large institutions and diverse.</p>
