• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    An Ivy League education is an expensive luxury product for the parents. That way they can brag to their peers about their children. It’s well known that the main benefit of an Ivy education is networking. That’s because of the connections that the parents have, not because the education is better.

    With the exception of maybe Princeton or Columbia, top research isn’t coming out of Ivy League schools. And the good research they do have is because they pay the top people more. They don’t have smarter students, they just have more resources.

    MIT isn’t an Ivy. Cal Tech isn’t an Ivy. Stanford isn’t. UC Berkeley and University of Michigan definitely aren’t.

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      3 months ago

      With the exception of maybe Princeton or Columbia, top research isn’t coming out of Ivy League schools.

      Doesn’t Harvard have one of the most advanced medical programs in the entire world? Perhaps the best even. Especially in fields related to cancer research.