Why Do Party Schools Rank So High?

Big_Brother_1984
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:31:12 +0000

What is interesting is that the data doesn’t support what Bigbrother is saying.



Uh, the data ABSOLUTELY supports what I’m saying, and that’s that Ivy Leaguers are disproportionately represented as CEOs.



When you look at CEOs, second tier UW Madison has more than any one of the Ivies.



The last time I checked, UW had around just as many CEOs as Harvard does; the figures were fairly close. But quite frankly, so what? This is still a big plus in favor of Harvard, because it’s a smaller institution. But that’s neither there nor here. All I simply stated was that the Ivies have more than their proportion of CEOs, unless you wish to dispute that the Ivies on a whole, have fewer than 5 Fortune 500 CEOs. I think you will have a difficult time proving that. More to my main focus, Ivy League students tend not to go into corporate management anyways, so the point made about there being a lot of “average” CEOs is fairly trivial.



Just because a school is big, or has a lot of students who party, doesn’t mean that you can’t get an excellent education there.



Oh come on Packers1, I think even you know the flaw of this statement. Are you really going to go to college for the “education”, or are you going just to get a degree? What if colleges didn’t have degrees, or other incentives such as heavy networking?



And the old saw that the top banks and firms don’t recruit except at the Ivies just isn’t true anymore.



I believe banks and consulting firms also recruit at many other universities, but that simply was not my point. It’s still better to network at the Ivies, since Ivy Leaguers are still grossly overrepresented in numbers at the top firms. You’re not ‘doomed’ if you go to a State school, it’s just that you have to look for ways to increase your probabilities at success. If you can do that from a lower-tier school, then more power to you.