<p>Columbia. But if you can make it there, you’ll make it any…</p>
<p>Boston University. I have visited over 50 campuses between my college tour, my sister’s college tour, and visiting friends. nothing compares to bu</p>
<p>LOL this is a funny thread… as long as you impress your professors and befriend those important people, and establish long-term friendships with a good number of people (which will take a while to find, cuz everyone will be new to university) youll be fine… as i like to say “you should not seek out the negatives in life, for the positives are right there in front of you”</p>
<p>thanks ambitiousteen… but i do know that…i though it’d just be funny to make a list of the “mean colleges” lol…just to see how others view places stereotypically --just like one of the other numerous lists on CC like “Colleges w/ the hottest girls” or w/e lol</p>
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<p>If you’re making a joke on-line, put a smiley face after it so people know. </p>
<p>After Cornell people have spent thread after thread dispelling your obsession with elitism and prestige, one can only assume you are joking.</p>
<p>^^I was partially joking, but I think it is true. Allot of kids choose Cornell for the Ivy name and have an inferiority complex in many cases. </p>
<p>Let the games begin—flame on</p>
<p>This is all opinions anyways</p>
<p>University of Southern California is actually rather notorious for having snobby, stuck up kids. They have huge chips on their shoulders because many USC students were rejected from UCLA and Berkeley (and Stanford of course). So USC kids tend to degrade other schools that are lower ranked than them in order to inflate their own ego and make themselves feel like they belong to the elite crowd. USC students and alumni have a very elitist attitude and believe that they are truly an elite university that rivals the Ivy League. USC students and alumni also have this twisted mentality that making fun of lower ranked schools somehow means they will be accepted as elite. </p>
<p>Some USC alumni I know personally even claim that USC is on par with Stanford (they constantly tout Stanford AND USC as the Ivy League schools of the West Coast).</p>
<p>Boston University students are probably the unhappiest bunch of kids I’ve met. They’re not mean per se and certainly not elitist, but they have even bigger chips on their shoulders. In a way, I feel bad for BU students. Boston University isn’t really considered an elite university at all; the problem though is that it’s a very expensive school yet their academics and brand name reputation really are not all that much better than your local state school. A Boston University graduate will not have a leg up against his state university competition.</p>
<p>Boston University has actually always been seen rather pejoratively as a school with an “Ivy League price tag, but community college educational value.” </p>
<p>In terms of ROI, Boston University is probably the worst out there. Some may argue George Washington University has a lousy ROI (again, another overpriced school with an academic reputation that isn’t even better than University of Maryland), but at least GW has excellent internship opportunities and a decent alumni network (so I hear).</p>
<p>I have no problems with USC and I agree that it’s a great institution. I just can’t stand their holier than thou student body which seems to get off on degrading other universities (they think that being a Top 30 school gives them the right to act like jerks and degrade schools ranked below them).</p>
<p>My dad went to Cornell in the 80s and it seems like everyone I’ve met that went to school with him came off as pretty cool. Maybe it has changed since then though.</p>
<p>IAmYourFather pretty much hit the nail on the head.</p>
<p>Fifteen years or twenty years ago, Berkley or UCLA students could label USC as the University of Spoiled Children. Not anymore. USC has more bright and intelligent students (Much higher average SAT scores) and more competitive for admittance (Lower admittance rate) than Berkeley or UCLA.</p>
<p>It’s funny that people think that BU is bad. I go to a private school and we send 50% of our class to schools that CC’ers would envy (about 30% to ivies and the rest to top lacs). BU is probably the best represented school among the parents. These guys are surgeons, heads of departments and high powered lawyers. I don’t know about their reputation in the business world, but in terms of getting people into top notch med and law schools, it seems pretty impressive to me. Also these guys speak very highly of their college years, so I’m not sure about the unhappiness part either.</p>
<p>Iamyourfather sounds like my good friend “The Dad” circa 2004. It was nonsense then, and it’s even more nonsense now.</p>
<p>At BU, on my fiance’s freshman hall of honors engineering kids, there were originally 40 kids. 18 transferred at the end of their freshman year because they hated it so much. That is an extreme, but the number of kids at BU who run the range of being apathetic towards the school and hating it are high.</p>
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<p>Bescraze -</p>
<p>If you’re going to continue disparaging incredible institutions as somehow inferior to your vast abilities, I feel compelled to point out that the correct spelling is “a lot”, not your frequent use of “allot”. Despite your superior knowledge about all of human existence, you seem to have let this little one slip through. I understand, though. I can’t imagine how difficult it is keeping all the unequivocally right answers in one little brain. </p>
<p>Used in a sentence (or two, since it seems to take a few times to get through all that wisdom): </p>
<p>You have a lot of misunderstandings about universities. Most people at Cornell are the antithesis of prestige obsessed and elitist. In fact, there are not a lot of less accurate statements one could make about the school.</p>
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<p>most students have a busy life both academically and socially that they got better things to worry about than this so called “prestige” or “inferiority complex.” Also, there are only about 10 schools ranked higher than Cornell.</p>
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<p>…depends who you ask. ATLEAST you finally admitted that there are 10 schools better thats a start. Personally I think Wash U/Hopkins/Cornell are all very comparable in the 10-14 range.</p>
<p>Nobody ever said Cornell is the best school. Nobody, you ignorant fool who takes everything to absurd extremes.</p>
<p>Yes - that is an ad hominem attack. It should feel vaguely familiar.</p>
<p>Bescraze, wouldn’t there only be about 10 schools ahead of Cornell if you put it in the 10-14 range?</p>
<p>Wow. Ease up?</p>