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Oh, it's hard to explain but people from Penn get incredibly irate when they're confused with Penn State.
How often could this possibly come up in conversation? That's what is so weird about this thread. It's not something that most people talk about very often, if at all.
How often could this possibly come up in conversation? That's what is so weird about this thread. It's not something that most people talk about very often, if at all.
Speaking of U Penn and Penn State. I had a client that had recently moved to the US. He had an interview at U Penn., although he traveled to State College for the interview. U Penn was not impressed.
Worked with a woman whose daughter was accepted at Cornell but denied at a state school. Hilarious. She wanted to go to the state school because it was a better school but had to "settle" for Cornell. HA!
Worked with a woman whose daughter was accepted at Cornell but denied at a state school. Hilarious. She wanted to go to the state school because it was a better school but had to "settle" for Cornell. HA!
That isn't uncommon.
Different schools look at different criteria.
She was probably a better fit for Cornell.
One of my friends is in admissions for NYU. They will take a student from an underachieving high school with a B average and good SATs over a student with the same GPA and SATs from an excellent school system. Theory is that if you can excell in the ghetto, you will thrive at NYU.
I understand what you mean. You are arguing a technical point. People use the term "ivy" to mean any top tier school. Those that attend the ivies and the elites in gov and business and academia know the dif. We average Joes don't know. Lol.
One of my friends is in admissions for NYU. They will take a student from an underachieving high school with a B average and good SATs over a student with the same GPA and SATs from an excellent school system. Theory is that if you can excell in the ghetto, you will thrive at NYU.
I find that interesting because it's easy to do extremely well if you don't have any competition.
I didn't know what the Ivy Leagues were (outside of Harvard and Yale and made I could have come up with a few more). I still wouldn't be able to name all of them if I weren't reading off your list. I don't think it's important to know which ones are Ivy and which aren't. But I don't refer to "Ivy League" schools at any point anyway.
While I attended an Ivy League school and often come across folks who don't know the full list of Ivy League schools (and often confuse UPenn with Penn State), it really doesn't bother me at all. Not knowing the names of the Ivy League schools (or confusing which schools are Ivy) is very, very low on my list of concerns on the education system in this country.
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