Wharton #1?

Wharton is literally #1 (Yes, even above tier 1 hypertargets like Oxbridge, Yale and LSE).

WF = Wells Fargo? More like Wharton First.

Harvard? Never heard of her.

Yale? Sounds like jail.

Princeton? They might weigh a ton, but they're not princely.

Stanford? Why would I want to support Ford?

MIT? It rhymes with S-H-I-T.

Stern? Full of Asian and Indian FOBs with stern parents.

Ross? More like your loss for not going to UVA.

McDonough? Sounds like they make frozen cookie dough.

McCombs? Too many Mcs, next thing you know, McDonalds will be joining McIntre, McCombs and McDonough.

McIntre? I be McEntering women.


WSO = Wall Street Oasis? More like Wharton's Supreme Omnipotence.

Lynch? Wharton. Trump? Wharton. Buffett? Wharton. Musk? Wharton. Perelman? Wharton. Kapito? Wharton. Quattrone? Wharton. Moelis? Wharton. 
 

Wharton #1 (I went to Oxford and LBS, before you soyboys call me biased).

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Uh no lmao, Penn is not "number one." Harvard is, then Yale, then Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UChicago, Duke, Columbia, THEN Penn. Stay in your place where you belong.

Also, the fact that you included state school trash like Michigan or Virginia is just laughable. They're several tiers below the rest--and that's just in recruiting. Prestige-wise, they have nothing.

 

Penn is not "number one." Harvard is, then Yale, then Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UChicago, Duke, Columbia, THEN Penn. Stay in your place where you belong.
 

I know you're still a prospect, but in terms of pure prestige and representation in the ivory towers, it's Wharton/Yale/Oxford/Cambridge/LSE > Dartmouth/UCL/Warwick/USC > Non Wharton Penn/Harvard/ASU Honors College > Penn State Nittany Fund/Princeton/MIT/IU Kelley IBW > IU Kelley non IBW/Stanford.

Actually an unironic serious post. Stanford, Princeton and MIT are genuinely shit-tier and are only hyped by high schoolers and Indians in the last decade or so due to tech speculation and mentions in media. Harvard isn't a bad school, but it has grade inflation and definitely does not deserve Hypertarget status like Yale or Oxbridge.

 
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Also top state flagships like UVA, UMich and top privates like Georgetown and Notre Dame are still a cut above mid-low tier ivies like Princeton and Harvard.

 

You tell girls you go to a hypertarget, doesn't matter if you're at Art Basel, Ibiza, Nobu, Mykonos, Nantucket, Santa Monica or Miami, they'll get on their knees and blow you.

 
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