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Ivy vs. Non |
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RE: HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW? |
| Date Posted: |
02/27/2001 |
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This post should just be shut down. First, most of you have no clue what you are talking about. Second, when most of you have actually gotten out into the real world and worked for one (1) day you will realize how silly you actually are.
When most of you have to produce in the real world the cream will rise to the top, and guess what??? As each year goes by there is less and less Ivy in it. Why.... because over the last 20 years organizations have come to realize that results are what count. Whether they are driven by an Ivy league degree or a medicore guy from Northwestern.
I went to Northwestern and got my MBA from Wharton. and from experience I can tell you there are idiots, geniuses, and tree huggers at Northwestern, Harvard, Penn,.... Most of you H/Y/Ps (whatever you want to call yourselves) will realize it when peers from Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Berkley... start passing you professionally.
Actually most of you are pretty smart,.... you are smart enough to recognize that you do not have the guts to take a risk so you go to the best school you can get into. No argument there, but think for a second. If you were really soooooo smart and sooooo much better prepared you would not care what school you attended because you would know that you would be sucessful regardless of the circumstances or you would already have done something worthwhile.
In conclusion, I hope that as next graduate of a substandard or state school passes you on the way up the ladder you finally figure out that sucess is about luck, hard work, and connections. An Ivy may give you one.
BY THE WAY, if you are under the age of 22 or have never worked a job after college, please stop wasting peoples time on these posts by spewing sound and fury signifying nothing. |
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Who ever posted the previous message hit the nail on the head. Ivy will help you land the first job, but after that the real world could care less where you went to school. The real world will be more interested in where you have worked, what experience you have, and how successful you were in your prior positions.
Ivy students are no better than the rest of the top tier or even second tier schools. Let me clarify - yes the average student at an Ivy league is better than the average student at other schools, but the top students from Ivy or other schools are the same. If you disagree you either have not yet been to a top grad school (where the top students from both go and are on an even playing field), or you have not worked in the real world (where the same is true).
So, if you're good you're good. If you're not we'll chew you up and spit you out when you get to our world -"the real world."
Good Luck, to all of you in college!!
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