<p>The Ivies? More reputation than reality, especially in the sciences. If you want to be a lawyer, by all means take that merit scholarship at Harvard…oh wait…the Ivies don’t have merit scholarships…hmm…well assuming your parents are very wealthy or very poor, you can be a great lawyer coming out of the Ivies. Princeton and Cornell are the only ones will really good engineering programs.</p>
<p>Your posts are sounding like a spoiled little kid who didn’t get picked first so you talk bad about the game. It is called sour grapes. I am no UT fan. I am only here because S1 is interested in UT as an option. MIT is his first choice, but with only 1000 undergrads per year that is tough even for a NMF. Big universities are mostly what you make of them. Find one that fits you and move on. The process at UT seems to be better than at A&M in the sense that they don’t go as much on first to apply. I’d rather see the most deserving kids get accepted than rush to admit those who applied when it opened up. </p>