<p>Wow, I never thought of Brown as being particularly easy to get into. It's one of my dream schools. I think you need to be a little more than decent to get to Brown, UPenn or Berkeley.</p>
<p>Why does evryone want to go to HYP?</p>
<p>Because people are really driven by prestige and by name. AAAhhh, but HYp undergrad is impressive, but it is HYP Graduate school that does it for you.</p>
<p>You will see people who have entered their state school's honors programs who eventually get their MA or Phd from some ivy league school. Which is much more valuable than just going to an ivy league school for undergrad (no grad), and, I think, just as valuable as a person going to an ivy league school undergrad and grad.</p>
<p>There are so many bright students who choose to go their state schools instead of an ivy. Not all the bright, motivated people go to ivies and get great jobs. If you are a hard-working, motivated person you can get into an ivy grad school or another comparable grad program and still make a great living.</p>
<p>My cousin goes to job interviews and people only ask him what grad school he went to. They didn't even want to know his undergrad school.</p>
<p>Does going to an ivy league school for undergrad increase your chances at being admitted to an ivy league for grad school?</p>
<p>Ya, if you take a look at the link below, you will see that harvard law prefers students from top privates. Only 4 publics have over 20 students matriculating and they are UT, CAL, UCLA & UVA, and these schools have huge graduating classes compared to private institutions. </p>
<p>Wow, that link really proves to me that coming from a top private school definately does payoff when it comes to graduate admissions. Looks at the LAC's (such as Amherst), top privates (Duke, Stanford), and Ivy League stats at Harvard Law compared to the publics, amazing. </p>
<p>It is obvious that going to one of the "Public Ivies" - UC Berkeley, UMich, UCLA, Virginia, UNC-Chapel Hill, definately boosts your chances as well.</p>
<p>tkm, I think he meant that he did not intend to spell agoraphobic, he meant to spell agrophobic, because that's the name of a disease he made up in 6th grade.</p>
<p>I don't think there's really any need for personal attacks. Grow up.</p>
<p>And you don't call saying "grow up" a personal attack? There are perfectly reasonable ways of letting me know that I was mistaken without going there.</p>
<p>As for personal attacks, how do you think that kid felt when agrophobic wrote earlier in the thread:
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Dethinker, you are extremely na</p>
<p>I don't think it's a personal attack to say dethinker is naive--he is. A degree from a top school may be helpful but it certainly doesn't guarantee anything whatsoever. That's just telling it like it is.</p>
<p>dooit, how do you find statistics like that for other graduate schools (i.e. med school)?</p>
<p>The only other one I've seen was Yale Law- it's in PDF format and was like 500 pages long. However, I don't have the link to it sorry</p>
<p>out of all the ivies i love harvard the best becuase of the perfect location for me (i LOVE boston) and it offers the best financial aid packages (:</p>
<p>Really? Harvard's back on the list in that case :) I <3 Boston too!</p>
<p>harvard gave my brother full tuition even though my family has a six figure salary - not an offer you'd find at many other colleges.</p>
<p>many people think of elitists and preps when they hear the name harvard but i think thats far from the truth. of course you'll find people like that there, but i believe that harvard has the largest endowment out of any university in the world. it has the ability to pay for poorer, low income students to attend harvard and it does so. recent changes in harvard's financial aid policies illustrate this.. they promise to give students from families earning 40k or less full scholarships and students from families under 60k a considerable amount of money as well. well their policy is something like that, i don't remember what it is exactly but i got notified about it via email and snail mail. if you look at the endowments of Y and P, they are a great deal less than H's.</p>
<p>i love boston because i'm a city girl but i still want a true campus which many boston colleges offer. and i feel like boston is more exciting than chicago or philly but more low key than new york.. it's perfect for me. every time i visit a college i compare its campus surroundings to boston and i'm never satisfied!</p>
<p>superchica, was the full tuition all grant and scholarship and no loans or work study? i heard harvard gives a lot of work-loans...</p>
<p>it definitely was not work-study because my brother didnt get a job until after he graduated lol.. lazy boy. and i'm almost certain none of it was loans.. because if my brother did have to take out loans my mom would complain about it nonstop (:</p>
<p>Prospective students fixate on HPY for the same reason that people buy a Mercedes or a Prada purse: they think that high price tag and name recognition equal quality. I'm almost 52 years old and I teach at a major university. I've observed this phenomenon for many a decade. It's delusional. It's getting more so each year. It is a sign of the times.</p>
<p>For me, it came down to the fact that Princeton was ranked in the top 5 math programs in the nation. And I figured, why try for second best if I can do best? (side note: had i not gotten in ED, i would have also applied to harvard, mit, yale, and smith. just for context)</p>
<p>"...the guy who came up with UC Palo Alto(Stanford) & CUNY Harlem(Columbia)"</p>
<p>Sorry, but i just had to say... really? You think he came up with them? Those nicknames have been around probably since before we were born. Or at least 4 years.</p>