Wharton>(Harvard & Stanford)

country_crazy
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:23:08 +0000

Praytell, to what does “>” refer?

Whatever you’re asking about (income, happiness, ease of entry?)… everything is what you make of it. There are people attending community colleges who will wind up wildly successful because they work extremely hard and take advantage of all the opportunities around them. (A friend of mine who went to Kent State in Ohio now heads a major non-academic department at a top 20 school. SHE’s in charge of 10 employees who are all ivy league grads).
Conversely, there are people coming out of Harvard, Penn and Stanford who won’t amount to anything.

All the schools you mentioned are amazing. If you’re fortunate enough to be accepted at some or all, choose whichever you feel has the most to offer in terms of what educational and extracurricular avenues you intend to pursue IN school, not what you think will “help you out” later in life.

I think they all try to screen out applicants who only apply based on the prestige.