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Date Posted: Fri, 11/22/02 10:35pm
Author: lagirl55
Subject: The Ivy League Schools
In reply to: Steve Russell 's message, "Re: OK. chicken or the egg?" on Fri, 11/22/02 8:16pm

My college advisor [at a crummy state college] glanced at my major and class list, shrugged and said he couldn't help me, and added that he didn't expect to see me again.

So I stumbled around with a course book in hand, figuring it out as I went along.

Now I'm a Mom and my youngest son is at an Ivy. His advisor hires limos to take "her" kids out to dinner. [Admittedly I would have been intimidated by that at his age, but he loves it.] All he has to do is mention an interest in something and she drags him to the office of someone on campus who is the biggest authority on the planet in that subject [another advantage of the Ivies.]

So--can you get an excellent education at a crummy state college? Maybe. Depends on the kid. I was so homesick and lost that it's amazing I ever graduated.

Is it much easier to get an OUTSTANDING education at an Ivy? You betcha.

Prior to seeing this with my son, I would have been arguing that state schools were just as good. Now I know why all those rich people push their kids into the top-ranked schools. It's because they are BETTER.

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