Future of Ivy Admissions?

T26E4
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:46:07 +0000

jeckert: It’s been said that your education is what you’re left with after you’ve forgotten the book work. As such, just because classes are made available online, doesn’t mean you can duplicate the dynamism of a place like HYPMS. I can log onto some great lectures in seconds. But it doesn’t replace being there. We haven’t made that progress yet. And I don’t foresee it in the near future.

Ask employers. Do they want to see applicants with an online degree or one who actually lived and breathed and interacted with others? 95 out of 100 scenarios I can tell you it’ll be the latter.

thiruvin000: you said FA may get tougher. As I said, even with the bottom dropping out in 2008, FA, if anything, got more expansive. The only way FA will be tighter is if some of the other Ivies go to need blind for internationals (which only HYP, of the Ivies, do at this moment). I don’t know what the fin aid budget is for each of the 8 Ivies but even if we were to assume $200million for harvard – it’s a drop in the bucket given their endowment. Yale too.