wrong person wrote:
Albert Camus didn't go to Harvard idiot!!
didn't go there *yet
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Where's that Boulder Bro guy to promote the U of Colorado?
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lol what? wrote:
to elaborate a little on my prior post, here's what I've seen in my experience working at a 'prestigious' trading company:
tier 1 - you can get interviews with a sparse resume, and having a strong resume will catapult you to the front. in general, for HF jobs based off what I've heard from friends (I'm in trading so CMU and Berkeley are high tier 2), these schools are the top 3 Ivies, Stanford, and MIT. special acknowledgements should be given to some of Penn's (Wharton's) dual degree programs.
tier 2 - almost as good as tier 1. There's virtually no difference except at maybe ~10 companies, but that difference is slight even at those companies. these schools are Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech, Hopkins, and Columbia*.
tier 3 - this has a wider range and is where you start getting into the "resume not looked at" when you're towards the bottom of this tier. The best schools in this range are Cornell (especially CS / Dyson), Dartmouth, Brown (definitely the worst Ivy, but still a good school), WashU
high tier 4 / low tier 3 - Rice, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Georgetown
mid tier 4 - except if you're in CS/math or in Ross at Michigan, good luck. these are CMU, Berkeley, and Michigan. CMU and Berkeley excel at CS but are pretty weak everywhere else, while Michigan has decent placement into BB banks, but it's much worse per capita, especially if you don't fulfill ≥1 quota.
low tier 4 - Emory, UCLA, NYU except Stern (location + alumni can't be beat and it's well-known), UVA
Anything else: except if you're a disabled minority lesbian, you're not getting it
This post lacks credibility as it does not mention Williams or Amherst (or any of several other liberal arts college that are more prestigious than many of the schools he does mention. Go to the back of the class.
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He was assassinated so I don't think he'll be able to attend.
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Where's Boulder Bro?? wrote:
Where's that Boulder Bro guy to promote the U of Colorado?
Honestly people are always sleeping on CU but they are definitely one of the best academic schools in the country. Their phenomenal distance program makes it even better.
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It is certainly not one of the “best academic schools in the country”
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intelligenceandspeed wrote:
Imagine being the top academic school in the country and also putting three guys under four minutes. This definitely tops Washington's feat in my books.
Oregon knows what's up
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Three sub 4's? Don't matter to me. I'm smarter than all of em.
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fastboy77 wrote:
Three sub 4's? Don't matter to me. I'm smarter than all of em.
Did you go to Harvard? Didn't think so.
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Math Doesn't Lie wrote:
I literally got a degree in statistics from Cornell, so maybe you should do some research before coming after me with such a meager rebuttal. I am just giving unbiased facts.
Maybe the hospitality school.
Ivy League is a scam and about how rich your parents are. People get good jobs because of name brand degrees and connections but Ivy grads are no more educated than a motivated kid from a good state school, of which UW is certainly one.
But let's be honest, these guys are all getting Bs and training hard, so discussions of academic rigor are really meaningless.
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adobe wrote:
Math Doesn't Lie wrote:
I literally got a degree in statistics from Cornell, so maybe you should do some research before coming after me with such a meager rebuttal. I am just giving unbiased facts.
Maybe the hospitality school.
Ivy League is a scam and about how rich your parents are. People get good jobs because of name brand degrees and connections but Ivy grads are no more educated than a motivated kid from a good state school, of which UW is certainly one.
But let's be honest, these guys are all getting Bs and training hard, so discussions of academic rigor are really meaningless.
one other aspect i think ppl overlook, is college is often about name + network, not the actual learning. so if you go to harvard, you have a great network of other connected/smart people. but guess what, if you are on Oregon XC, or Alabama football team, those are also tremendous networks to be a part of when you enter the 'real world' - in addition to the growth/learning you experience just by being part of those teams & competing at the highest levels.
tldr; i think its stupid when ppl on this board act like choosing any school other than the highest ranked US news school you can get into is a bad decision, and you're stupid if you go to any of these state schools. and i say that as someone who did go to the best US news school i could get into (amherst)00 -
maybe he’s going to one of 4 equivalent schools, but I doubt it
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Math Doesn\'t Lie wrote:
intelligenceandspeed wrote:
This literally makes zero sense. Nice try though.
I literally got a degree in statistics from Cornell, so maybe you should do some research before coming after me with such a meager rebuttal. I am just giving unbiased facts.
Any way to stratify for size of school and number of scholarships available? Being genuinely serious.
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Math Doesn't Lie wrote:
intelligenceandspeed wrote:
This literally makes zero sense. Nice try though.
I literally got a degree in statistics from Cornell, so maybe you should do some research before coming after me with such a meager rebuttal. I am just giving unbiased facts.
So basically the 100th ranked school has the best milers because 100-100 = 0 and 0 * 0 is technically also zero???
No wonder Cornell is the butt of the Ivy League, you silly goose.
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intelligenceandspeed wrote:
Imagine being the top academic school in the country and also putting three guys under four minutes. This definitely tops Washington's feat in my books.
In no universe is this more impressive than what Washington has done. It's impressive, just not as impressive. The hardest part about Harvard is getting in, then it's pretty much like any other school.
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Agreed. Guander must be waiting for the right race. 1:46-1:47 prediction.
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Pretty sure calc and physics at Harvard are the same as calc and physics at UW. Unless you're in a graduate or doctorate program, undergraduate for the most part is about the same between large public universities and the Ivy League. But as so many here gleefully like to proclaim, it's about those sweet, sweet connections and branding. I suppose that's true to a certain extent, but let's be real, the jocks running NCAAs are largely not going to be at the top of political, legal, or commercial enterprises... That's for the psychos who are willing to die on the job.
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quasi pretzel wrote:
Let's say you are the CEO of a top tier company like Google. You have two applicants: one is at 3:56 miler with a degree from Harvard while the other runs a 3:52 mile from Washington. It would be a really tough choice but I would have to give the Harvard guy the edge here.
Okay, this one made me laugh.
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adobe wrote:
Ivy League is a scam and about how rich your parents are.
Huh. My Ivy (and Stanford and Caltech) acceptances were because my parents were rich? Who knew?
And here we'd always lived a working-class life and I'd gone to a public high school literally in the middle of nowhere! Shucks, if only I'd known about their secret wealth I might have been able to talk my folks into living a little higher on the hog.
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tigers > crimson. admittedly I'm biased, but I believe it to be true
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