Ivy League vs Non Ivy League, who are you taking?
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i'm choosing IU kelley
As a somewhat biased UChicago alum, most of the non ivies are better than the corresponding ivies in your post.
How so? IMO only the lower ivies are worse.
Harvard > Stanford
Princeton > MIT
Yale > Caltech
Columbia > Duke
Penn > Chicago
Brown Northwestern
Dartmouth JHU
Cornell > Berkeley
Well, I’m adjusting for the overall school quality, not just looking at it from a finance lens, so I’d do something like this:
H S
P MIT
Y Caltech
Columbia > Duke
Penn = Chicago
Brown Northwestern
D JHU
Cornell > UCB
Ivy. The others are filled with nerdy blowhards.
Ivies have more depth and are better for finance specifically, but as overall schools Stan/MIT/CT > HYP
Agree with the top ivies being better for finance specifically, but disagree with ivies having better depth. I think Duke/UChicago/Northwestern clear Cornell/Brown/Dartmouth in terms of education, grad schools (obviously), quality of student, research, etc. I don’t think it’s wrong to say that the first 3 clear the second 3 in finance placement too.
Yeah no shit because you moved the goalposts. Remove any two schools from Duke/UChicago/Northwestern and replace them with JHU and Berkeley and I’m taking the lower ivies over em.
RBC
Oxford/Cambridge
Non ivies all day
University of Michigan
Insane amount of copium in this chat. Get good and maybe you can go to an Ivy for undergraduate in your next life.
You definitely went to Cornell, Brown, or Dartmouth
And you probably went to Duke, UChicago, Northwestern, JHU, or Berkeley.
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