Ivy League Prestige

They all became each other. The second (or maybe first) most popular degree at Harvard now is CS. Students apply to all the Ivy+ schools and a few backup options, maybe 20 in total, and you pick the best one you get accepted to. All the students have done the same things, they have very similar GPAs and scores, they all mostly went to Ivy feeder high schools, they do all the same extra curriculars like math and CS club and teaching underprivileged kids to code. It's all the same. Maybe they

You might find this previous discussion informative. The Ivies matter but not as much as you'd think.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30448083https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05222-xMost relevant: <a href="https://www.nature.com/art

Yep, this is true. Graduating HS senior here, and people don't seem to look past prestige.Most of us are aware that Harvard/Stanford isn't the end-all, but still chase those institutions anyways.

I feel like Harvard and MIT, those two universities in particular, carry a very unique cachet. Other elite universities may not be so worth it.

I don't know anything about the school but it sounds like the prestige took over- like with harvard, MIT, etc all, it's a great school but that's as much being driven by it's reputation for being a great school, attracting the most ambitious students in the world

Your friends anecdotal experience doesn't trump what is known amongst practically everyone. They all congregate together at elite schools. Sorry your friend experienced that, maybe pick a pertinent degree involving finance next time

I find it very interesting that many so-called "Ivy Misser" schools such as WUSTL and Tufts have more 1%ers and fewer 60%ers than extremely elite schools such as Princeton and Harvard. Even Yale has a lower ranking on the list. Perhaps the elite of the elite are more concerned with giving their progeny a broad exposure to different classes of people, while more middling members of the upper class concern themselves with status signalling.

I'm not sure this directly applies to you, but the one thing I wish people had told me when I was applying to college was that if you want to be a Master of the Universe, there's still a significant advantage to going to an east coast Ivy League school. My friends at Harvard and Yale and so on have a valuable network of powerful people looking out for them, making sure they get cushy jobs and lecture gigs and book deals. Stanford, by contrast, was all about pushing you into Silicon Valley, eithe

They sure do at Harvard or MIT. That’s the point.

I graduated high school in 2009 and went to my flagship state school (UW), and had a similar experience in that getting decent grades and SAT scores was what counted. I think for the big schools like the Ivys, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc... it might be more involved.I think I got a perfectly good education at University of Washington, but I think to some people anything less than something highly ranked by US News is failure. I think we feel hyper competitive to be the best and only partake