Yale vs. Harvard: Economics

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<p>Tetrishead, you should realize there is a reason no one else agrees with you.</p>

<p>"Because you haven't done that. Because you've never worked in the industry, you haven't even graduated from college yet and for all I know you don't even go to Yale."</p>

<p>Well I guess you have to trust me don't you. I trust that you're not just an anti-Yale troll. Maybe I'm wrong. We're over an internet, so integrity plays a big deal. Like I said before, how would you want me to prove this again? I smell an identity theft.</p>

<p>"a) Yes, congratulations on catching me in the horrible lie of saying my rankings were based on two things when they were based on one."</p>

<p>Are you an idiot? This is the whole point of our argument. While I admit Yale's econ program is a little weak compared to Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton etc, I argue that Yale has better job placement. Your rankings in the previous posts as you've said, are "solely based on job placement." When people started asking why you placed Yale below UCB, Claremont College, and Dartmouth, you started shifting your answers and lied to us saying that your original rankings were based on undergrad econ department quality and job placement.</p>

<p>I'm not debating about econ department quality. I'm debating about job placement, and yes I know I'm right when I say Yale has better recruiting than Claremont, UCB, Dartmouth, CMU, Northwestern, and whatever else you placed above it. </p>

<p>"There's nothing to prove because your arguments are based on nothing. "</p>

<p>My arguments are based on research and experience. Yours are based on talking to trolls over an internet forum. Who's more reliable? Hmm doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.</p>

<p>"and if I started working at McDonalds I'd probably end up better then you because at least I'd know what work looks like."</p>

<p>I sense an inferiority complex. Keep on dreaming.</p>

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<p>"So... You're not at the school, and you had to post a thread to get opinions on whether Harvard or Yale has a better economics program and which would be more finance related, and now, 5 days later, you're an expert on the subject?"</p>

<p>After reading six pages of responses, I believe the information stated is fairly adequate. Don't make assumptions and say that I'm an expert. And are you at Yale?</p>

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Are you an idiot? This is the whole point of our argument. While I admit Yale's econ program is a little weak compared to Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Princeton etc, I argue that Yale has better job placement. Your rankings in the previous posts as you've said, are "solely based on job placement." When people started asking why you placed Yale below UCB, Claremont College, and Dartmouth, you started shifting your answers and lied to us saying that your original rankings were based on undergrad econ department quality and job placement.

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The quality of an education will undoubtedly correlate to job opportunities, just like the prestige of an institution will. Claremont and Stanford especially have access that other schools don't on the West Coast, just like Stern and Columbia have access other schools don't to 'traditional' Wall Street. You argue that Yale has better job placement, I argue they don't. Neither of us can bring anything to the table other than conjecture, so we're complete equals except for the fact that you believe your conjecture is somehow superior to my conjecture, which either makes you delusional in that you aren't aware that your argument has been substantiated as much as mine has, or arrogant because you think your baseless opinion is better than the baseless opinion of anyone else.

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I'm not debating about econ department quality. I'm debating about job placement, and yes I know I'm right when I say Yale has better recruiting than Claremont, UCB, Dartmouth, CMU, Northwestern, and whatever else you placed above it.

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You know you're right, and I know I'm right, and we both know we're right with the same amount of data on the opposite sides of the same issue. This is quite a pickle.

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My arguments are based on research and experience. Yours are based on talking to trolls over an internet forum. Who's more reliable? Hmm doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.

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No, my arguments are based on research and experience--yours are based on being a troll over an internet forum.</p>

<p>See what I did there? I took what you said and turned it around because we have the exact same foundation to stand on. We can effectively substitute each others statements and they'd have the same level of credibility. You can say you have more credibility, and then I can say I have more credibility, and we'd both have the same amount of credibility. Unless your perception is based on the opinions of other posters on an internet forum, but you don't think internet forums are worth much, so it would invalidate that too.

No. So we're on equal footing there, since your first year hasn't begun yet.</p>

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<p>I actually just clicked through this again and for some reason I ignored it. I feel it's worth special mention.

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"and if I started working at McDonalds I'd probably end up better then you because at least I'd know what work looks like."</p>

<p>I sense an inferiority complex. Keep on dreaming.

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How could you possibly be stupid enough to not know what an inferiority complex is? Is this some kind of meta-joke, or something?</p>

<p>An inferiority complex implies that someone would actually think they're inferior, or that they'd project their feelings of inferiority onto someone else (a superiority complex, which is the same thing with self-loathing replaced by pseudo egotism). My statement was the complete opposite of either: namely, I opened with the fact that we're equals, and then I went on to say that even if I were to end up as someone you'd consider a complete reject who gets accepted nowhere--which, admittedly, is technically impossible because of EA results--and lives in a trailer working at McDonalds, it would result my living a difficult life that would make me better than you are because you have some kind of awkward neurosis--narcissism?--that leads to you believing that on an equal footing with everyone else you are still somehow superior. If I was in a position different than I am now--the previously mentioned McDonalds thing--it would only cause you to inflate yourself further, which would only lower the opinion anyone could have of you as a human being.</p>

<p>Of course, by an equal footing, you probably know I'm insinuating that you and I have the exact same amount of experience in the financial industry. But while I'm open about my background you actively spend your free time falsely bolstering your background to try and support your already baseless opinion. This also goes against your previous 'knock' against my information coming from internet forums, because if you were in actuality someone who worked in this industry (which is rather time-consuming, as I'm sure you don't know) and you held the opinions you do about said forums you wouldn't have gone this far arguing this topic while being unable to present anything of substance, would you?</p>

<p>Presumably you'll carry these issues with you for the rest of your life if you don't actively take part in therapy, and if I had to choose between uneducated+well-adjusted or HYPSMCetc+misguided egotism, uh, I'd definitely go with the former.</p>

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<p>Because you have admitted that both of you have "baseless" opinions, why should anyone believe anything either of you have to say? What the heck was the point of this argument? Insulting each other and everyone else who gets in the way (including the OP) of a "baseless" argument?</p>

<p>I doubt anyone really cares about your argument anymore, except for the two of you. You're obviously not helping the OP because now you're just pointlessly arguing about the usage of "inferiority complex". This is just sad.</p>

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<p>What is the C in HYPSMC? In no way is it Columbia; Columbia doesn't do better than its other middle Ivies (particularly Dartmouth) at all in terms of grad placement or recruiting.</p>

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<p>HYPMC is the correct acronym, HYP MIT and Caltech.</p>

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