When did MIT and Columbia become second-tier?

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<p>I’m simply shocked. Please share your comments below. </p>

<p>[Brown</a> and Cornell are Second Tier - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/brown-and-cornell-are-second-tier/27565]Brown”>http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/brown-and-cornell-are-second-tier/27565)</p>

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<p>there’s a discussion somewhere else on the forum. what people fail to realize is that cc is a microcosm for this kind of developing culture; or at least exaggerates the whole “HYPSM” or go home mentality. i wonder what kinds of employers those kinds of students on this forum will be in the future…</p>

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<p>MIT is about as ‘second-tier’ as a Lamborghini.</p>

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<p>Well, why the hell would you go to MIT anyways if you wanted to be a consultant?</p>

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<p>Wow. Just wow.</p>

<p>Then again, these are the people that crashed our economy (or, at least, were particlly responsible for it).</p>

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<p>I second reese. </p>

<p>If our economy is broken (which it is) and it was brought down, at least in a big part, by the industries listed (which it was), then WHY would we keep hiring the same people? </p>

<p>Don’t companies want to be innovative? You can’t bring fresh ideas to the table if you had the SAME education, professors, experiences, etc as the guy sitting next to you. </p>

<p>I simply do not understand.</p>

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<p>^What’s hard to understand about that? Even though the banksters are incompetent in real-world terms of having engaged in practices that brought the economy down, they never paid a price for it themselves. They still got their bonuses, they got bailed out, they weren’t removed from their positions, they avoided meaningful regulatory reforms, and they didn’t get prosecuted. The fact that they didn’t pay a price just reinforces their view that they’re entitled because they’re “smarter”, or so they think. So, it’s business as usual. The only way they want to be innovative is to develop new forms of financial gambling, which they call “financial products”, even though they contribute nothing of social or economic value.</p>