I will agree with Gonzo that WW is doing a nice hack job on Iowa and IL But I can also confirm, as an NU grad, that 99% of NU alums are in fact dooshnoozles. I really hate most of them. Not me and my friends of course. I was a Pell and SEOG grant kid back in the day. The Ivy envy thing that many NU grads have is sad because it wasn't near as bad back in the 80's when a lot fewer NU students were full-pay.
You serious, Clark??
If you're just finding that out after getting married, something's wrong... very wrong.
Which is par for the course for all northwestern *****.
If daddy has enough money and pull, you don't have to be intelligent to go there. That pretty much goes for all the "top tier" undergrad schools, but northwestern has ivy envy, so its' grads are even more overbearing.
I think this is vastly overstated. Of course, if your surname is Pritzker or Ryan you will get into NU with an application submitted on a napkin. Likewise for the Bush family and Yale. I, however, did not have a family legacy and was admitted on merit and was an Evans Scholar.
I will agree with Gonzo that WW is doing a nice hack job on Iowa and IL But I can also confirm, as an NU grad, that 99% of NU alums are in fact dooshnoozles. I really hate most of them. Not me and my friends of course. I was a Pell and SEOG grant kid back in the day. The Ivy envy thing that many NU grads have is sad because it wasn't near as bad back in the 80's when a lot fewer NU students were full-pay.
So let's say I graduate from high school and I know I want to go to law school at Iowa. Would it then have been wrong for me to go to the University of Iowa for undergrad because I thought I'd have a better chance of getting into their law school if I made connections in Iowa City? I really think these are mutually exclusive topics. You can grow as big of fan of Iowa or Iowa State as there is, but at some point you have to make decisions about your future and what you want to do with your life. If you pass up good opportunities because of a youthful allegiance to a team then you aren't seriously thinking about your future.
Let's say you date a girl for a few years, you get married and a week later you find out she's an Iowa fan. Do you get a divorce because she's an Iowa fan? No, because there are certain things more important than rooting allegances. That's all I'm trying to say. The Yankees example doesn't compare to what I am talking about because it all arises within the context of sports. Sure, you give your front-runner fans a hard time, because they made a decision to be a fan of a certain team and that is hardly a big life decision.
Whoa stud. I bet you don't even have to apply for jobs you just turn down offers.I think this is vastly overstated. Of course, if your surname is Pritzker or Ryan you will get into NU with an application submitted on a napkin. Likewise for the Bush family and Yale. I, however, did not have a family legacy and was admitted on merit and was an Evans Scholar.
Henceforth I'm declaring WillieWildcat a K-State fan and reading all his posts with that assumption in mind.
Good job getting into Harvard on the Prairie, Willie.
I think this is vastly overstated. Of course, if your surname is Pritzker or Ryan you will get into NU with an application submitted on a napkin. Likewise for the Bush family and Yale. I, however, did not have a family legacy and was admitted on merit and was an Evans Scholar.
I think this is vastly overstated. Of course, if your surname is Pritzker or Ryan you will get into NU with an application submitted on a napkin. Likewise for the Bush family and Yale. I, however, did not have a family legacy and was admitted on merit and was an Evans Scholar.
Consider the meaning of the term "such as." It is not every single top flight school in the land, I'm sure there are a few others in that bucket. I would personally rank India Institute of Technology higher than CalTech, but no sense in quibbling over that.
I don't care where a bunch of Medill rejects who make $32,000 per year working for the dying US News publication rank Northwestern. Their job is to sell content to idiots who go around spouting off meaningless rankings that claim that Illinois is a better school than Northwestern. There is probably some feedback loop in their methodologies such that if Texas Tech grew to take in 400,000 students it would be a top ten school because of the size of its library and number of majors and extracurricular groups on campus. No matter where Texas Tech is ranked by a publication, its graduates would still be relegated to pizza delivery and bar tending "careers."
Why the **** are we talking about Northwestern?
It started because someone was unsure why a Michigan fan would go to Ohio State and I pointed out that some schools, like Northwestern, Michigan and Texas have high admission standards and so some fans from those schools have to go to less academically selective institutions. Carry on, though. It's not relevant to the thought process of why an Io_a fan would go to Iowa State. I can't imagine those schools differ much in terms of majors or admissions standards, so it doesn't make any sense to me.
So, let me get this straight. ISU is pulling in the casual fan (tavern clone?), and these fans are only coming out and about because the team is getting better?
And here I thought ISU was above and beyond the bandwagoner.
It started because someone was unsure why a Michigan fan would go to Ohio State and I pointed out that some schools, like Northwestern, Michigan and Texas have high admission standards and so some fans from those schools have to go to less academically selective institutions. Carry on, though. It's not relevant to the thought process of why an Io_a fan would go to Iowa State. I can't imagine those schools differ much in terms of majors or admissions standards, so it doesn't make any sense to me.
I'll just go ahead and step out of this conversation now. If anyone has any substantive points they'd like to make about a potential Northwestern-Iowa State basketball game there is a conversation on that going as well and I'd welcome your thoughts.