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Ivies are largely unimportant unless you are trying to get a job directly out of undergrad. Graduate schools care less than you think about where you received your undergraduate education. Your graduate eduction is infinitely more important.Coming from someone who goes to an Ivy League, don't buy the hype. There isn't some strange 'mystique' about it.. smart people gonna smart, wherever they are. The people who do well in Ivy League schools are the type of people who would do well anywhere.
If you consider yourself intelligent enough for the Ivy League and you don't get in, don't worry about it because you are still in a position to be successful regardless.
The one thing I will say is that the Ivy League prestige opens a lot of doors. But many of those opportunities are available at other good institutions as well, for those who work hard.
Girl in my school got into Columbia. She wasnt very smart though. There were more intelligent people.
Few others got into Cornell. Really it just looked like you needed a good GPA and even a decent SAT score could at least get you to Cornell.
Girl that made Columbia had maybe 93 GPA and a 1700 SAT.
Exactly.If you're white or Asian, it's very hard.
Agreed. In general, kids should focus on building the experience and environment that they want instead of trying to fit a predetermined path.Ivies are largely unimportant unless you are trying to get a job directly out of undergrad. Graduate schools care less than you think about where you received your undergraduate education. Your graduate eduction is infinitely more important.Coming from someone who goes to an Ivy League, don't buy the hype. There isn't some strange 'mystique' about it.. smart people gonna smart, wherever they are. The people who do well in Ivy League schools are the type of people who would do well anywhere.
If you consider yourself intelligent enough for the Ivy League and you don't get in, don't worry about it because you are still in a position to be successful regardless.
The one thing I will say is that the Ivy League prestige opens a lot of doors. But many of those opportunities are available at other good institutions as well, for those who work hard.
Truthfully, you should go to a school you like, that can give you a good education, and won't put you up to your eyes in debt. It doesn't have to be an Ivy.
Then again, it also depends on how well you do in the school. It's better being the valedictorian at an ok school than be in the middle 50% of a magnet school.If you go to a prestigious HS in a big city, you have a better chance.