Ivy Vs Non Ivy

Parents Forum
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<p>Just read a money magazine article that indicated there was a 1999 Princeton Study which indicated that that the long term sucess of those that got accepted to Ivy league schools and went elsewhere was comprable to those who attended Ivy league schools.I would like to read that study.Does anyone have a link? or similar article handy</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/409.pdf[/url]”>http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/409.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ivy League schools are just OLDDDDDDDDDDDDD good schools. Doesn’t mean there aren’t NEW good schools. Stanford, MIT, Berkley, etc.</p>

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<p>Your time in college is what YOU make of it. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, we are a society that believes in wearing labels and believing those Labels make the “man”. You can be successful just about anywhere, because it’s still you at the end of the day.</p>

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<p>MIT is slightly older, Cal-Berkeley essentially same age as Cornell (founded same year as Cornell first admitted students), Stanford’s first president and bulk of initial faculty Cornellians, so shouldn’t lump Cornell with “old schools.” It’s actually part of the “newer” wave of Civil War era schools.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the link.</p>

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<p>Here’s a link to a criticism of the study (see footnote 27). </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers/aidpaper.pdf[/url]”>http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers/aidpaper.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>I don’t believe the study’s oft-cited general conclusion, which you mentioned in your thread-opening post. Even that general conclusion, according to the results of the study, has an exception: a low-income student is best off going to the most elite college that will admit that student. I think that result, generalized to more students, is actually more plausible than the usual proposition for which the study is cited. The study is badly in need of replication on a new data set and further analysis of its methodology.</p>