Ivy League Universities

Mike_Yates

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World-class colleges known as "Ivy-League Universities" are virtually impossible to get accepted to. Only the very top 2% of college-bound high school graduates get accepted to these institutions.

Has anyone here been to/graduated from any of the following universities?

*Harvard
*Yale
*Brown
*Columbia
*Cornell
*Dartmouth
*Duke
*Princeton
*Stanford
*Penn State

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Graduates from these schools, especially those with graduate degrees, get the very first pick in their choice of jobs, even in national and global markets.

Since employers are now (almost entirely) gauging educational background on whether or not they will hire someone. An employer will consider hiring a Harvard graduate over someone with a degree from a state college or lesser institution. For example, graduates from Harvard business school or Wharton business school can get hired on wall-street making six figures their first year out of college. While someone with an MBA from a lesser-known business school has a somewhat limited choice of job options.

The intellect and academic prowess of people who graduate these schools are reason why they become so meteorically successful in their fields. There are more fortune 500 CEO's and household names (including US presidents) who came from Ivy-League schools than from any other college. Those who went to state colleges or vague and unknown institutions often struggle greatly just to find a job.

In today's bloody and cut-throat job market, employers are expecting so much from potential employees, those without any degree are stuck working at McDonalds for the rest of their lives, if their lucky enough for that.
 
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I hope you mean Penn instead of Penn State. Duke and Stanford are just wrong.

What fraction of the college bound population should eight small, expensive universities in the northeast accept? 2% seems high to me.

Anyway, don't be discouraged. Just keep taking those SAT's.
 
A while back I read a Harvard memoir. The grad explained that you go to Harvard to make friends in the Elite class. No other reason. Even the perfessers work there to meet the Kennedys and Bushi.
 
I once got my hubby a t-shirt that said "I never went to Harvard"

He loved it

BTW, this is a whole lotta hokum
 
US News ratings of the national universities shows that Harvard, Yale and Princeton each admit 5 - 6% of applicants. The 4th ranked school, Columbia, admits 7%.
I know you freely admit to not being good at math, Mike, but knowing that 5, 6, and 7 are not 2 isn't math. It's counting.
 
Knew a guy with a degree from Duke. He said the grading scale was A, B and "your check bounced".

BTW, Duke is in the ACC - not Ivy.
 
I go to Princeton, Yale, U of Penn and Columbia all the time and have been to Harvard a couple of times.
 
Is MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) considered Ivy-League?
 
I went to the estimeed institution of higher learning that is known as San Diego State, so I don't have first hand knowledge of Ivy League schools but I worked with someone who was a Cornell graduate. They did the exact same job as me at the same pay level, and in terms of overall intelligence I would say we were roughly equal.
 
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