Current Events > Did any of you here go to an ivy league college?

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or do you know someone that did?

Getting into ivy league is more about your family having money than it is about your intellect and achievements.

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I probably couldve gotten into one but I never even considered it as a possibility because of how much cheaper local schools were

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Naysaspace posted...

Getting into ivy league is more about your family having money than it is about your intellect and achievements.

yeah i agree with you, though a lot of people think otherwise.

Duke isn't ivy league but a lot of people mistakenly think it is

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I have one person tagged as ivy here.

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I had a friend who was wait listed at some local New York schools but somehow got into Cornell lmao.

He didn't graduate from there.

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yeah, a girl i went to high school with got into harvard.

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any of you here don't think it's mostly about money, for admissions?

KazGT6 posted...

any of you here don't think it's mostly about money, for admissions?

Had a friend get into Princeton on academics/extracurricular activities (had some published research).

I went to Johns Hopkins (Ivy parallel like Stanford etc) but I think someone mixed things up in admissions :p

KazGT6 posted...

any of you here don't think it's mostly about money, for admissions?

Are you referring to bribery? Because a standard college application doesnt inquire about your financial ability to pay.

And technically I go to a school thats referred to as a public ivy but that description is loose fitting and kind of a joke.

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Somebody from the grade ahead of me got into Stanford. He was a huge misogynist.

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Yes
I was a janitor at one. I'd write random shit all over professor's white boards when they'd leave up math problems that they couldn't solve. For some reason they thought I was a genius or some shit.

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clyde_frog posted...

Are you referring to bribery? Because a standard college application doesnt inquire about your financial ability to pay.

And technically I go to a school thats referred to as a public ivy but that description is loose fitting and kind of a joke.

Ivy League schools reserve a certain number of seats for the children of parents that went to that college as well as the children of people who donated money to them.

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Doe posted...

Ivy League schools reserve a certain number of seats for the children of parents that went to that college as well as the children of people who donated money to them.

yeah that's right, and that's what i was mostly talking about

KazGT6 posted...

yeah that's right, and that's what i was mostly talking about

I went to an Ivy League for grad school, and I'd say it's mostly merit based, outside of legacy admissions and such. I am definitely not from a rich family.

The thing is, though, the things that help improve your "merit" definitely favor the rich. Extra curriculars, AP tests, study abroads, high school internships. Even knowing about these things is an advantage the upper classes tend to have because they the parents are more likely to have went to college and know how it works.

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Naysaspace posted...

Getting into ivy league is more about your family having money than it is about your intellect and achievements.

TendoDRM posted...

I went to an Ivy League for grad school, and I'd say it's mostly merit based, outside of legacy admissions and such. I am definitely not from a rich family.

The thing is, though, the things that help improve your "merit" definitely favor the rich. Extra curriculars, AP tests, study abroads, high school internships. Even knowing about these things is an advantage the upper classes tend to have because they the parents are more likely to have went to college and know how it works.

Ivy for grad school is also different from ivy for undergrad, tbf

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No, I didnt even try. I went to the state school that I got a free ride to (merit based free ride). No debt coming out of university was much more important to me.

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