<p>I know that a good amount of HYP grads don’t, but I’ve seen in many cases here that when a student chooses a non-HYP college over any HYP, there are always a couple grads who sneer at his or her decision. Is this even slightly common? It’s not like it matters but I’m just curious, I never knew people this pompous existed.</p>
<p>For example, there was a thread in the Yale forum about Emma Watson choosing Brown over Yale and there were a fair amount of Yale grads who were like “Who in their right mind would do that?!?!”</p>
<p>Yes, believe it or not, it happens.</p>
<p>Magic 8 ball says ‘Yes’.</p>
<p>Of course. Most of them are rich spoiled kids, and that doesn’t help much.</p>
<p>… “Most of them are rich spoiled kids, and that doesn’t help much”</p>
<p>Not true. The amount of students receiving need based aid at HYP and other Ivies is hovering around the 52% mark. So, by definition, most are NOT rich spoiled kids.</p>
<p>And, its not a superiority complex… its more of a disbelief that another school is better because the HYP and other Ivies were such a perfect fit for the students that go there.</p>
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Uh dude, they give aid to any family that makes less than $200,000. Having 52% on aid does not prove that students are not rich–on the contrary: Less than 4% of the national population makes above $200,000, meaning 48% of Yale students are in the top 4% socioeconomically. Rich? I think so.</p>
<p>Some do; some don’t.</p>
<p>I believe that just4ivaylo was saying that the rich kids are the ones who sneer at others for choosing a non-HYP school, not that most of the students at HYP are rich.</p>
<p>I think that the mentality exists in a very vocal minority of students. A friend of mine chose to attend Bowdoin over Yale for a variety of reasons, and while most people were happy for him, of course there was that one person who had to ask him, very loudly, “why would you ever do THAT?” I don’t think it represents many of the students, though.</p>
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<p>I suspect that most students would wonder why a student would choose Bowdoin over Yale.</p>
<p>silverturtle - true. I meant more about the general “if you don’t attend Harvard/Yale/Princeton your life is a failure” crowd. I think they’re vocal, and annoying, and definitely out there, but not the majority.</p>
<p>As for my Bowdoin friend, she had a really bad experience when she visited Yale. Never wanted to go back there again. That was the closest scenario I could come up with since I don’t have the liberty of knowing many people who chose anywhere else over HYP.</p>
<p>^ It is unwise to turn down a school because of one bad experience, unless that experience necessarily reflects generally upon the school. I am not denying the possibility of legimate objections to Yale or its peers, though.</p>
<p>That’s true…though I think for her, she had a pretty all-encompassing amount of crap on her trip: she had a really nasty (and from what she says, fairly antisocial) host who didn’t want anything to do with her, went to a class taught by a TA who spoke barely-understandable English, was ditched by her host at dinner and got lost trying to find the dorm, and had her wallet stolen out of her host’s dorm room (to be fair, though, her host’s wallet and ipod were stolen too). Not the best impression, lol.</p>
<p>By contrast, her visit to Bowdoin was great and she loved the school and the location. So I think for her, the choice about where she wanted to go was pretty obvious. :)</p>
<p>Again, though she may have made a biased decision, I can see her point. OP…sorry to hijack your thread.</p>
<p>Yup. And CC reflects this.</p>