Hail to thee old ivy leaguePoison ivy leagueThe ra-ra boys are sitting round the table tonightThe ra-ra boys have lots of plans in viewThey're gonna have panty raidsAnd make their own lemonadeThey'll live it up just like the big boys do
Poison ivy league, boys in that ivy leagueGive me an itch, those sons of the richThat poison ivy league
The ra-ra boys will go to bed so early tonightBefore exams they need a lot of restThey gotta make good for dadThey gotta make good so badThey'll even pay someone to take that test
Poison ivy league, boys in that ivy leagueHow can they flunk, they're so full of bunkThat poison ivy league
The ra-ra boys are being groomed for business some dayFor better things to college they were sentAnd you can bet they'll be the head of the companyAs long as dear old daddy's president
Poison ivy league, boys in that ivy leagueSo loaded with cash, they give me a rashThat poison ivy league
So let it be toldI won't touch them with a ten foot poleThat poison Ivy league
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 7 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
Hahahaha... er.. that's almost true.
Nobody hates Ivy League undergrads more than Ivy League grad students who applied to, but couldn't get intoafford, Ivy League schools as undergraduates.
― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
I love how Tad thinks my wife and I should die. That's so adorable!
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
"Oh, do you play football?""No, I just think it's important."
Thank god for the ivy league.
― Skottie, Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
--you there! Yes, you! Bomb Iraq again, and make it snappy.
--where's my drink?
― Skottie, Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
As for SATs - exactly where did I say that they mattered. The issue was UT's status as an elite university (to be kept in with the Ivies) - and it's not. One measure is the average SAT score. Avg. Hah-vud score - like 1450-1500. Avg. UT score - 1200 or less. Doesn't necessarily mean anything (other than Hah-vud kids could afford test prep), but that's one of the indications.
How that becomes "dissing low SAT scores" (uh, 1200 is like 200 points above-average), Lord only knows.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
Don't be the guy with the one gay friend who isn't going to Hell. Either it's bad or it isn't.
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
Okay...
― Skottie, Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe Dartmouth is like that, except it's more country than club, or Princeton or something, I dunno, I only did one road trip my whole four years. But this painting with a broad brush thing, I dunno.
And what the fuck parties did YOU get to go to? Our parties were fueled by beer from kegs and music by Prince. I didn't see anyone doing any coke in four years (my roommate saw that once I think)...shit, I must have been the wrong kind of Ivy Leaguer, a.k.a. Not The Straw Man.
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
One of the funniest things I heard recently was a HS friend who went to Penn bitterly complaining about her lack of progress in the face of the 'Carleton mafia'. I reckon the grass is always greener...
Kerry, people from all over the world come to study architecture at the Bartlett School in London which is headed by Peter Cook from Archigram. As to concerns about elitism and that, fuck it, because you just have to remember that they get to meet YOU and besides you should endeavour to go somewhere really international in student intake (this is especially worthwhile in an Arch. course). Or you could apply to do architecture at the Cooper Union which is similar but free, right?
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link
No, it's: Nobody hates Ivy League undergrads more than students who applied to, but couldn't afford, Ivy League schools as undergraduates, but who went anyway and now have no job and massive student loans.
― Insomniette, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
I couldn't believe how smug my classmates were about money at Yale. The financial aid office told me that my parents should sell their house to pay my tuition. So when I graduated I had loans to the bank, to the government, to relatives. Like a mortgage with no house.
― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link
The Estimated Cost of AttendanceTuition and fees: $28,400Room and Board: $8,600Books and personal expenses: $2,620Cost for one academic year: $39,620
― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― That Guy (rotten03), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
The one time I made an argument for class-based affirmative action in a class, I got called a racist, so maybe I should shut up.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
I got nearly a full ride, but I can't imagine getting a grant that size now - it would have to be nearly three times what I got then.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
Not 100% true. Brown only recently instituted a need-blind policy. It starts actually taking effect in 2007. The current undegrads are rather.. fortunate.
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link
yeah, yer lucky trife hasn't found this thread ... (and i happen to agree with you on this issue).
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I realize what a great library it had - journals from 1890! Another good thing about non-state/private schools - the variety of students from all over the place, countries, cultural backgrounds, etc is great - most of my classmates were interesting and intense people. I liked being in a city having access to amazing professors.
― marianna, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
Also had a girl in our shop. She was saying she just finished a year at Oxford. I asked which uni she attended in the US. She was sort of shy saying:"Oh Brown." I replied:"Don't be shy! You should be proud of it." She said she was trembling when she read ab the scam. Dunno if it was bec her parents bought her way into Brown. Lol.
― nathom, Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
or because she didn't know whether they did!!!
― j., Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
things that cause me to tremble: 1) pondering how they crucified my lord. 2) pondering how they laid him in a tomb. 3) pondering how admittance into Brown University isn't validation of one's life.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 March 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Apparently this investigation was kicked off by a finance dude who was under investigation by the SEC for pumping/dumping stock - when caught he flipped on the Yale woman's soccer coach who was taking bribes.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-college-admissions-scandal-11552588402
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 15 March 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
Harvard had $41 billion before the market crash. It would cost them almost nothing to keep paying workers. It should be socialized. https://t.co/Eh020XBbmi— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 22, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:54 (four years ago) link