<p>Hmm…wise there, B, but I doubt many rich institutions/firms are going to care about that as much as you do. Evidently lots of non-Ivy “second-tier” schools could give one just as great an education in one field as an Ivy could in that same field, but usually nobody really considers that.</p>
<p>I mean, they do, but why take the risk? Ivies just SOUND good, and LOOK good, and I even suspect they taste heavenly. Maybe you’re indifferent to it, but I can assure you the majority of your future employers aren’t going to be lol. :)</p>
<p>Wait, and Platts, I thought you were still in high school? <em>confused</em></p>
<p>Ivies matter A LOT less for engineering but it depends on what engineering you want to do. If you want to go into finance or i-banking then you just want to go for the prestige of an Ivy or the very top engineering schools (MIT, Stanford). Many investment banks only recruit at Ivys and MIt, Stanford, Caltech, etc.</p>
<p>However, if you want to be an ACTUAL engineer (eg programming for Google or building chips at Intel) then check the list of top engineering schools. The top schools from USNWR (not that these are completely accurate but for comparison purposes they’ll do) are MIT, Stanford, Cal, Caltech, GaTech, and UIUC. The top engineering Ivy is Cornell at number 9. </p>
<p>For engineering, the difference between Ivies and many other schools matter less.</p>
<p>I never said that Berk engineering was worse than Columbia engineering. I just said that it’d be more respected.</p>
<p>If you are referring to my last comment on Georgia Tech/Michigan not being on the same level as Ivies, look at it this way:</p>
<p>If I give schools numerical values out of 10 on the strengths of their engineering programs (e.g. MIT, Stanford 10, Harvard 8.5, Berkeley 9, Columbia 8) it’s worth mentioning that that 9 Berkeley has is one of their only strong programs. I.E. Berkeley doesn’t have as much strengths in the humanities/economics as other schools (e.g. Stanford or Penn).</p>
<p>Columbia may be worse than Berk in engineering but in many fields it is better which, I think, can outweigh any minor weaknesses.</p>
<p>Fasinro: That is certainly not necessarily true.
It depends on who the employer is and who he/she wants to hire.
From what I’ve heard, if you’re hired into a hospital, school, or court office, you are likely to get paid similar amount of money compared to the rest of the employees.
But if there is an employer who is impartial about an employee’s salary amount, then he/she will seek his/her employee’s prestige of the school.
Not all employers are generous about this.</p>
<p>no she’s in college. awhile ago, sierra (platts) let my family and i tour the school w/ her so that my older brother and i could decide whether to apply.
it was really weird meeting a ccer in person
she’s a lot friendlier than she’s puts on</p>
<p>i wish i could procrastinate and do good enough to get into my dream school.
i have to study my butt off as it is
maybe there’s like a secret procastinating study system that i don’t know about</p>
<p>I usually just studying during down time in between classes. I usually don’t study at home because I know it won’t get done. I think I got that from Cal Newport though</p>
<p>Damn…i should really be studying for my AP Bio test on Respiration tommorow…( I hate the krebs cycle)</p>
<p>And have homework on graphing rational function, finding the asymptotes(both vertical,horizontal and slant). Couldn’t be anymore excited at how easy that is.</p>
<p>Ok!..im officially gone, didn’t give in homework today because i was here last night/this morning…</p>
<p>HopefulEagle: Well, yes, but that’s when you get into Medical School (if your referring to professionals) .</p>
