<p>lols (10char)</p>
<p>Long MIT, CalTech, Stanford (engineering, tech is the dominant market of the future)
Long Penn, Harvard, Chicago (strength of grad programs)
Long NYU, Columbia, Georgetown (urban schools will sustain profits)
Short LAC index (for above reasons)
Short Duke (overvalued and its only merit, basketball, is volatile; also has had a negative trend in the past few years)</p>
<p>lol at this tread. great portfolios</p>
<p>Long Brown (emma watson just increased the stock “application” value by 2 points)
^ god i really wish she didn’t go there
Long Wharton (has more billionaires than Princeton…and possibly any other ivies)
Short Cornell (6 suicides this year would mean a decrease in stock value by…say 3 points)
Short Yale (found a dead body in their med-school…a stock value decrease is yet to be calculated…Yale’s future is dim)</p>
<p>thank you for tuning in
i’m BrownPennLover reporting for CNBC</p>
<p>I would definitely short brown. The school has an absurd curriculum and I don’t perceive it as a serious education institution.</p>
<p>@Awped: but then again, with emma watson at the helm, a lot of people (qualified, unqualified, and super-duper qualified) will start to apply in the next two years. Therefore, Brown would have the capability to choose a brilliant student body from the overflowing applicant pool. Hence, it creates a chain reaction if the school manages to give diplomas to super-geniuses; the school will be perceived as an even more prestigious school that it is now—>virtually every bright students will apply to Brown—> and it will create university filled with the power and capacity to topple over any other universities that are now above them</p>
<p>this is starting to sound like a fiscal policy that affects macroeconomic activities to create a growth in GDP :P</p>
<p>One university that is definitely being overlooked here is the university of Chicago. With a 42% increase in applicants this year it’s going to get selective, fast. It’s got one of the best economics programs in the world and its hard sciences are an often overlooked gem. With great graduate programs too. It’s common core is also very respected</p>
<p>If colleges were stocks, they would be the dumbest asset class ever because you’re confined to one position and your ‘broker’ is ‘efficient’ only about 10% of the time.</p>
<p>Are we including options? I’d like to straddle Chicago…</p>
<p>this is an absolutely ridiculous thread. one goes to college to receive an education, not to land a job that will pay significant amounts of money. liberal arts colleges (or, colleges with “short indices”) allow one to have seriously in-depth educations in a small, close-knit environment–a benefit that cannot be reproduced in a large research university, no matter how “prestigious” and how many billionaires it may produce.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but you’re missing out on so much if you only see the world in terms of money. it is entirely clich</p>
<p>^^ that is no more of a legitimate argument than my levered position on an explosive (income) growth investment. There is nothing wrong with education commoditization because the world tends to think of it that way anyway (budget planning, etc).</p>
<p>Schools such as Wash U, URochester, and Chicago are definitely on the rise</p>
<p>Long:
- Rice- School is trong in many areas and has a report with NASA, it is also relatively low ranked</p>
<ol>
<li><p>UConn- Just got added to the common app and the average SAT scores have been quickly increasing. Look for Uconn to be comparable to UMich in like 10-15 years</p></li>
<li><p>Elon- getting relatively selective and a lot of pretty good students from my school actually got waitlisted</p></li>
<li><p>Emory- has solid science program and is on the rise</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Short:
- UCLA- when the UC system goes down, I think UCLA will be the hardest hit.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>B.C.- it has always been overrated to me</p></li>
<li><p>Wash U in St. Louis- It really isn’t that great besides the Biomed program and it is #12 in USNWR, OVERRATED</p></li>
<li><p>Syracuse- really overrated school/not selective.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The OP thinks Yale and Brown will go down? Lol…</p>
<p>Just Like OP said Harvard is Harvard, Ivy league is Ivy league. They will always be in demand, at the top…</p>
<p>I would Long </p>
<p>University of Virginia/UT Austin/UC Berkley/UCLA - Gives an Ivy League education at a public university’s cost. As the years pass by, these schools will be in more and more demand for what they have to offer, at a reasonable price. </p>
<p>NYU/NYU Poly- NYU Poly grads already make a lot, now that it’s being integrated into everyone’s dream school NYU, it can only go up. </p>
<p>I don’t know who to short…</p>
<p>This thread is hysterical, I wouldn’t expect anything less from a (future?) Wharton student! haha!</p>
<p>what about the UMich/Duke/Vanderbilt/Northwestern/Emory type schools?</p>
<p>just curious…</p>
<p>In my opinion:
+Long: Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, MIT
+Short: Cornell, Williams, Women’s colleges</p>
<p>Love this thread! Those who aren’t laughing are taking this much too seriously.
Long: Penn, Stanford, WUSTL, Rice, Chicago and Emory- all underrated for what they are
Short: Oh wait a minute… I just had to sell my whole portfolio to afford the tuition for our first who is going to be a college freshman this fall…
so I guess there is no more money to invest… only to spend!</p>
<p>maddenmd, you DO realize short is a net credit and long is a net debit, right? So if anything, you’re not longing anything and shorting everything to get cash now (in completely violation of margin requirements)</p>
<p>Long: UPenn, HYPS
Short: Cornell, Wash U</p>
<p>Other: I’d buy a stradled option on Brown as I think it’s beta is indicative of large motion of an undetermined direction. Either they’ll pull their act together and do well or they’ll finally fall to the bottom of the Ivy League</p>
<p>You’ll pay a fortune for those options to straddle Brown…haha Emma Watson</p>
<p>I would definitely long:
- Penn - There will only be one Wharton
- MIT - MIT is MIT & basically the most competitive place on Earth
- HYPS - The name value will never decrease
- NYU - highly regarded in almost all of its schools - location plays a factor as well
- UChicago - agree with others in that it is rising steadily
- Rutgers - rising as one of the best public schools in the nation – has much publishing going on in psychology department</p>
<p>I would short:
- Penn State - I don’t think the “1 in every 123 people is an alum” motto helps them recover from the rep they have as biggest party school
- Cornell - okay yes its ivy league but it is cold and horrible weather and people keep committing suicide
- Darthmouth - I don’t want to offend anyone but this is the Ivy that everyone forgets about
- GW - highest tuition in the US? for WHAT??</p>