jungleline
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I went to Dartmouth and had a good experience there. But I think you need to go to the school that's the best fit for you, Ivy League or not.
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I went to UVA over Penn, Brown, and Dartmouth. Best life decision so far.
I don't think anybody is saying that the classes in and of themselves and in isolation will teach vastly different amounts of stuff.
At a private school with a large recruiting reach (and there are lots of them) you will meet a lot more people with a much wider background. The person sitting next to you might have grown up in that same town, or may be more cosmopolitan than Barack Obama.
I had 2 Nobel Prize winners as professors. It is something different to have a prof come back to class after being gone a week and say "the Central Bank of Italy needed me to work out some issues for them" and you read about those things in the paper a few weeks later. Yeah, I could have studied econ elsewhere, but when you have access to the the world, it pays for the better school.
its further removed from reality to pretend that if you go to harvard you are going to learn something in intermediate macroecon that you wouldntve learned if you took intermediate macro at OSU or UT or <insert state school here> people tend to underestimate the importance of branding, but think about it from an insurance/asymmetric information point of view: employers spend a lot of money to recruit and train employees, but the thing is you cant really tell how good an employee will be just from a resume and interview, but when you go to harvard you know that they have already been vetted by admissions, and probably needed to work pretty hard to get a degree on the other hand, if you go to a big state school, your just in a big blob and you may be super smart and a great employee, but the employer doesnt know... but if you were harvard material and went to a state school, presumably your gpa would let them know basically the education is going to be the same, but the branding will be different, imagine those chinese factories that make tons of brand name merchandise and probably quite a bit of non brand name merchandise... yet the brand name merchandise can command a higher price, despite coming from the same place
Turned down Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and UPenn (among others) for MIT. Let's see how this turns out. (check back in half a decade ok?)
I'm an aspiring Ivy League student (Columbia),and I was wondering if there are any members on here that can share their experiences with their education. How did the degree treat you afterwards? A gift that keeps on giving, or in your case, a gift that keeps on paying
I would rather go to school in NYC than any ivy league school. (Columbia is almost in connecticut so it does not count as being in NYC. )