<p>show: on this thread you have a Harvard alum (swingtime) and a Yale alum (me) bashing you for your naivete about prestige. We, who have taken our degrees, gone out into the real working world, and have navigated life with the fact that in every introduction for the rest of our lives, someone will say “This is swingtime, he/she went to Harvard” or “this is T26E4, a Yale alumnus” – we’re almost YELLING at you to drop the hair-splitting of “Ivy A>Ivy B>Ivy C” inane comments but you persist.</p>
<p>Congrats on getting into Columbia. You have many lessons ahead of you.</p>