Why is Penn's name so stupid?

tortoise
Tue, 01 May 2012 10:44:17 +0000

tortoise:

T26, nobody cares. Really. “Non-Ivy people” don’t give rip either, much to the dismay of some “Ivy people,” who’ve made the mistake of basing their college decision an institution’s “ivy” status.

Yes, the issue looms very large in high school and, again, to those who work so hard to land a spot in an ivy league school. But what you soon find is that the “ivy badge” means something only to those who don’t have anything more meaningful in life over which to obsess.

In other words, the only people “out there” who care are those people who aren’t really doing much with their lives.

I say this, btw, as the product of three “elite” institutions (UChicago, Stanford, Harvard) married to a diehard Yalie (college and law).

Once again: Ivy league “status” means absolutely nothing to anyone of consequence. Those who argue otherwise are traveling in the marginalia of this world.



Addendum:

I speak of “ivy league” status, per se. College networks, on the other hand, can be hugely important. But the most “robust” networks are not limited to the Ivy institutions; in fact, several non-Ivies–from Williams and Amherst, to UChicago, MIT, Stanford, CalTech, and others–offer opportunities for the sort of life-long, life-enhancing, career-building relationships that match and, arguably, exceed those offered by all but HYP.