The Ivy League is expensive, exclusive, located in the North East, and features beautiful old buildings. All of these things are beloved by white people so logically it would seem that they all love the Ivy League. But this is not true!
White people have a tortured relationship with the Ivy Leagues, and if you broach the subject in the wrong way you can offend and even anger a white person.
But before getting into the more nuanced aspects of the subject, it’s important to know that all white people believe they have the intelligence and work ethic required to attend an Ivy League school. The only reason they did not actually go to one is that they chose not to participate in the “dog and pony show” required to gain acceptance. White people also like to believe that they were not born into a privileged (enough) family to get legacy admission. This should always be at the back of your mind as you talk to a white person about the Ivy League.
Once you have determined that a white person did not attend an Ivy League School, you should try to give them the opportunity to explain why their school was actually a superior educational experience. Some easy ways to do this are to mention grade inflation, professors who value research over teaching, or high tuition costs. Any one of these will set a white person off on a multi-minute rant.
When they have finally run out of arguments about why they chose the right school, you should say “I knew a whole bunch of people who went to Harvard and none of them work as hard or are as smart as you.” This is a very effective technique for gaining acceptance since white people need constant reassurance that they are smart and that they made the right choice with their life.
If you actually went to an Ivy League school, you will been seen as a threat so prepare for a lot of questions from white people. They will constantly ask questions about how much work you had, the type of students at the school, the professors, your dorm room, your reading lists, and they will try so hard to figure out your SAT score. They desperately need a source of comparison so that they need to figure out if you are actually smarter than them. In fact, the only way to stop this line of questioning is to imply that you only got in because of your minority status. Once you say that, white people will stop feeling threatened since they can now believe they too would have been accepted to an Ivy League school if they were a minority. It also gives them a personal story about the effectiveness of Affirmative Action.
White people also like to call their school “The Harvard of the <insert region or conference>”. Do not challenge this, it will ruin their confidence.
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LMAO.
I work for the Harvard of Texas.
This was the Harvard of blogs for a little while, until you got your book deal and stopped trying.
Forget Ivy League—NOTRE DAME!
And no Ivy League experience is complete without the rear windshield sticker for the Prius or Volvo to go next to the anti-W sticker or the Gandhi sticker (“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”)
You also have to make sure that you have a sweatshirt that has “HARVARD” or “YALE” in giant letters across the front and you must wear it every single time you go jogging through the streets of NYC, SF, Seattle, or whatever other white people town is suitable to the “I graduated Princeton in ’92…” crowd.
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A love hate relationship apparently
Seriously funny.
White people also like to call their school “The Harvard of the ”.
This is the best part of the post. City College of New York says it all the time!
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But the University of Chicago REALLY IS the Harvard of the Midwest!
All those other “Harvards of …” are just poseurs.
I’m told that I go to the “Harvard of the South,” now which one is that again?
don’t forget the seven sisters!
Calvin College: the Harvard of Grand Rapids.
You totally dropped the ball on “Cinco de Mayo”, white people love excuses to drink Margaritas on a monday
More posts please! Give the people what they want!
Quantity over quality, save the quality for the book.
But what you don’t know is that Harvard really IS the Michigan of the East.
Imagine how hard it is to be a white loser. So few are that it makes someone like me stand out all the more.
So true. Both schools I went to (grad/undergrad) seem to call themselves the Harvard of the North (north meaning Canada).
Though I thought Asian people are more obsessed about Ivies than white people.
I think that spelling and grammar should have been more of focus at whatever community college you attended. Hopefully you’ll have someone to proof-read the book…
Love the site, but don’t get sloppy!
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I would also like to mention that black people like to refer to there school as the “Black” Harvard. Unless you went to Howard. Then you know that Harvard is the “White” Howard.
As has been noted before, white people love to point out grammar mistakes.
Grab a scarf buddy, because you are white… at least in spirit!
Vanderbilt is commonly called “The Harvard of the South”…
The Harvard of Winston-Salem does have a nice ring to it
What about the Magnolia League? It’s the unofficial collection of Southern schools that are just about as prestigious (and uppity) as the Ivies. Duke, Furman, Emory, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Richmond, Rice, etc…
Then again, this site hasn’t covered the Southern white person…they are a special breed. Possible articles: sundresses, horse racing, huge hats.
couldn’t be truer. every person i meet brags about how their school is The Number One Greatest University of All Time. actually, now that i think about it a lot of those people aren’t white, but white-washed and yuppified (just like me). i guess that semi-counts.
Finally. A new post. Nice book cover, BTW.
is that dollar bill bradley holding a yale sweatshirt? Princeton’s finest a turncoat?
Harvard is the Stanford of the East. Then again, Cal is the better school.
But what do I know, I went to Fresno State. A cow college with wine.
Christian,
Thanks for the beautiful picture of Brown. Go Bruno!
It’s Goat time,
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as: 1) a minority who attended an ivy league school and 2) one who knows many people who like to refer to their school as “Harvard of the …” I can attest to the accuracy of this post, however frightening that may be.
The “Harvard of the South” that I go to is Tulane, but if anything we’re the Tufts of the South.
And yeah, that line is the best part of the post.
Affirmative action is immoral. White people let their own children be discriminated against. That is just sickening.
that’s a photo of Brown University in the picture. I go there! love the Ivy League
This must be an East Coast white people thing, I don’t know a single person that went to, or even cares about an Ivy School.
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Many white people who despise the Ivy League are actually spheksophobic.
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thanks for visiting,
now go back to your fantasies of being a gawker commenter and STFU
…but I go to the Harvard of community colleges
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LOL. Save some material for your book!
white losers unite!
we will hang out amongst the underclasses being stared at by black people who wonder
“WTF is that white asshole doing here, shouldn’t he/she be a lawyer or in some other way be successful?”
I get that stare every time I walk into my community college’s administration office
I went to the “Yale of the Midwest”, otherwise known as the whitest school on earth, Miami University (in Ohio).
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard.
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“North East” is incorrect. A true white person knows that one should refer to this region as the “Northeast” and “New Engand.” And as Mhm mentioned a follow-up piece would of course mention the Seven Sisters.
White people get bonuses for graduate studies at Ivy League schools. Those who stay in academia then try to convince *their* graduate students that some time spent at an Ivy League school is the only real way to advance their careers. Both of my supervisors went to the Harvard of Harvards.
Actually we refer to Harvard as “the Tulane of the North.” Only less fun, with colder weather, nothing approaching rampant alcoholism, and fewer natural catastrophes.
I think the Alumni’itis that affects those who went to these schools is even more white (and annoying)……….want to steal a Harvard alums identity just figure out what year they graduated.
hArvard02! and your in!
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Very funny but I think that the Ivy League is more likely to be on the list of Things White People Hate since most white people cannot get into one. You should do a ThingsWhitePeopleHate.com instead.
ha, my sister arielle goes there now and is part of that facebook group “you’ve got it wrong: harvard is the tulane of the north).
Let’s be honest. Nobody takes black schools seriously except black people.
We do love their bands though.
Drumline was a great flick.
Brown is the West Virginia of the Ivy League
Lol…..just when i was jumping to go grab the domain It already exists! http://www.thingswhitepeoplehate.com
What’s really funny is that i just watched the Simpsons episode where Lisa is offered free entrance to one of the Seven Sisters if she loses a spelling bee.
Sad as it is, I agree completely. But off topic.
You are probably the wrong kind of white person. I know I am.
I love that, “Spend an extra $150,000 on the degree that will earn you $22,500 per year!”
This one really sums up the overall insecurity of white people. Simply wonderful.
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That’s because if you’re from anywhere but the East coast, it’s a very white thing to dis the East coast.
Someone once made the mistake of mentioning they had a MA from Harvard, if I remember right. I suspect that it was mainly because he wanted to spend more time partying in school. The guy liked to drink. He was doing it in the wrong bar, though.
I, being the wrong kind of white person, pointed out a few facts.
1: There is nothing as useless as a Masters of the Arts degree. It almost certainly wont get you a better job or raise your salary.
2: It costs thousands of dollars that you’ll never get back.
3: It delays your career so everyone who got a job when they graduated have a head start on you.
4: I still make more money than you, and all I have is a HS diploma.
That last really set him off. Unfortunately, he was a coward, so I didn’t get to blow off steam that night (hey, I said I was the wrong kind of white person).
I attend the Harvard of North St. Louis County. Not to be confused with the Harvard of St Louis, or the Harvard of St Louis (Catholic Division).
My greatest accomplishment was having sex with a girl who was leaving my liberal arts college to go to UPenn (an Ivy League school).
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These are the reasons I haven’t gone back to college. If it won’t guarantee a tripling of my salary I can’t afford to lose the years of time and the $60,000 bucks doing it. and the degrees that pay money are the “most exclusive” meaning they treat you like something stuck to their dress shoes and anything you say ANYWHERE and to anybody can be used as an excuse to flunk you out as the wrong kind of white person. Tow the PC line At All Times or die.
That may be, but JFK called Harvard the Michigan of the East. So, unfortunately for you lot, Chicago isn’t actually the best of the Midwest; it’s the Michigan of the East of the Midwest, instead of simply Michigan.
Dude, if you got a book deal you’d stop working so hard on your dumb blog, too.
I go to the Harvard of art schools. Does that make me extra white?
Does the Harvard of the South, LSU, count as Ivy League?
Let’s hear it for the Harvard of Amish Country
I thought GRCC was the Harvard of GR.
Proud graduate of Harvard on the Hocking.
I was going to go to Harvard, but their Communications program wasn’t as strong as East Tennessee State University’s.
My favorite is Furman, apparently it is the Harvard of the south. However, unlike the Harvard of the North (and by this I mean actual Harvard) I had never heard of Furman until I lived in North Carolina among Southerners who were – exactly as this article describes – selling me on why Furman really was the better school.
I’m confused – are you saying White People don’t go to Ivy League schools? How should we deal with those that do/did?
My own experience is a slightly different take on the subject and perhaps superior: I was accepted to an Ivy league school and then went elsewhere – suck on that, honkeys
Hilarious!
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When my ancestors came over to this great country 400 years ago, they had a vision for a utopia, free from minorities, liberals, poor people, homosexuals, and immigrants. There are few today who share such lofty ideals, but we’re easy to find: Pastel polo shirts, loafers without socks, tucked-in shirts, but most importantly, collars up.
Call me a douchebag. Call me an arrogant little cocksucking dickhead. Beat the shit out of me if I’m not with fifteen of my B-frat friends (unlikely). But just know this: I interned at Smith Barney this summer. Where did you work? A Blockbuster? That’s right you insignificant sack of dogshit; I’m going to be your boss. So take your t-shirt wearing, financial aid, blue-collar ass over to Blockbuster and get me a copy of Old School. Do you even own a tuxedo?
Look at my girlfriend. You think she’d go for someone who didn’t have his collar up? I don’t think so. I remember the night I met her. I bought her so many $9 drinks she couldn’t even walk. So I drove her home in my BMW 328ci, but not before I took a few “liberties” with her. The next morning I took her to brunch and went to the mall, where I bought her some blouses. You assholes don’t know the first thing about being a gentleman. You probably don’t even know how to sail.
When I get out of business school, I’m going to be making $120, 000 a year. Add that to my trust fund, and I can buy a country club membership, a ski house, and still have enough money to go barhopping around the city in my designer clothes and shit-eating grin. Maybe I’ll offer you a hundred bucks to flip my collar up for me. I earned it you middle-class fuck up. I bet you went to public school.
You’re so predictable. I bet I can guess your political party just by looking at you. My cronies and I range from elitist northern liberals to heartless conservative bastards. I’ve wasted enough time with you. Get some rich parents, an internship, and a pink polo with the collar up, and then maybe I’ll let you hang out with me.
Franklin & Marshall?
Nope, that makes you useless
way to rip off other websites…it was funny the first time i read it five years ago
Also, self-aware and subtle-minded Ivy grads often refer to their almae matres not by name, but rather by geography. If you went to Yale, for example, you might say, “I went to school in Connecticut.”
Boo. White people love claiming to be Irish.
this blog has officially become dumb. you know who sweats the Ivy League the most – ASIANS. by far. this sux. bye.
ha! exactly. he’s just an asian dude that’s mad that we take all the asian girls. and white girls don’t like him. boo fucking hoo.
Yeah, how dare he work harder for the folks who are actually paying him money to write this stuff.
they are. they really are.
You’re a knucklehead. Show us what YOU got!
I did not go to the Harvard of anywhere. However, I did go to school very near a school that liked to call themselves the “Harvard of the West.” My senior year, the Claremont Colleges Rowing Club made a series of T-shirts, one for each of the colleges. Pomona’s was the best: “There Is No Pomona Street At Harvard.”
“If you actually went to an Ivy League school, you will been seen as a threat…”
Unless you went statutory Cornell, in which case you are definitely harmless.
Duke is the harvard of the south! Just ask the lacrosse team
If you are really white, you skip the Ivy League and go to Reed instead, like Steve Jobs (the CEO of Apple). Or Berkley, because it’s near San Francisco.
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I attended a French “Grande Ecole”. Not expensive but certainly more exclusive than Ivy League.
Money and family connections won’t get you in, but your brains and hard work will.
However, post graduation, the effect on your career is the same as Ivy League. You take off pretty quick.
So in short: I am white. I love Ivy League. I prefer the “Grandes Ecoles”.
“white people need constant reassurance that they are smart and that they made the right choice with their life”
– This is the essence of what this blog is all about.
Really white people go to Cambridge or Oxford.
hehehehe cinco de drinko…
Ha, I went to the College of Ag at Cornell. It really confuses other white people: Is she Ivy League or cow college? I don’t know how to interact with this person!
Totally – Seven Sisters are key here. I went to the Harvard of the Seven Sisters. Or was it the Yale?
I have a Princeton tee-shirt that I wear when I go shopping so people can look at me and wonder if I’m really as smart as my shirt alludes. 🙂
ISU is the ghetto of colleges, not just in the midwest, but all over the damn country!
southern wp love mint juleps.
Yeah, and if a white school called itself the “white” Harvard. Oh wait, there are no completely-white schools. That would be illegal.
Unless you’ve been to New Jersey.
I don’t kid myself: the state university that I graduated from was fifth or sixth tier. Nothing remotely ivy league about it. Where I take pride is in the fact that I put myself through school: not a dime from my parents; no grants; no scholarships; no student-loans.
It was a lean existence for several years, to include no car until the beginning of my last year. For most of it no phone and no air-conditioning. Give your parents a break! It can be done. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
I went to Harvard .
In Feb 2001 – I heard that we were going to invade Iraq.
That was the most important fact I learned.
wp love the duke lacrosse team.
although: duke = university of south jersey
LOL. Awesome stuff.
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I went to a mid-sized school in Michigan that never claimed to be the Harvard of anything. There was, however, a guy I knew that went to a school down-state from me, who claimed he was going to the Harvard of the mid-west because their math program was “challenging”
Well I got ‘er numbah! How do ya like them apples?
I went to “the Juliard of the midwest”
…but it wasn’t. Of course.
A more interesting commentary though, would have to do with how everyone acts like the people in this blog, if given money, free time, and a sense of entitlement.
But that would be more interesting. Overt racism is more entertaining, unfortunately. At least it’s directed towards the oppressors!
rotflmao.
i matriculated at that school downstate from justin. at the time i was there, people i met were all hung up about not getting into Penn.
PENN?
Now that i live within spittin distance of where harvard gobbles up more and more boston real estate, what do I hear?
Harvard = a money market with a small school attached.
so much for a great education –
I’ve been to New Jersey! Wait, remove the exclamation point.
I went to the University of Arizona, also knows as “The Harvard of that portion of Southern Arizona that is South of the Gila River and North of the Border”.
what if you took a class in the Extension school of an ivy league do you get 1/2 credit for going to that school…
I attended Harvard…studied physics……..Man does that sound snooty…yep, works for me….
haha, so true.
My theory prof. did his undergrad at reed then played rugby at Yale before pursuing his Ph.D. I went to school in the midwest, so i didn’t even know people like him existed outside of John Cheever’s short fiction.
I, The Almighty Lord, hate the rich.
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Please. Ivy League? The most pretentious white college league is definitely the NESCAC.
is just me, or since spring FINALLY arrived, it seems a lot of people don’t have time to sit in front of their computer and write blogs.
at least, that’s my excuse! and i’m sticking by it!
that would be a good blog – claiming some irish heritage!
i always joke how i’m 1/64th irish and my daughter is 1/128th 🙂
What you missed out on, Jeff, is something ivy-league wannabes can’t escape and thats an inferiority complex. Consider yourself blessed.
Have to agree here. Ivy Leagues are stuffed with Indians, Asians and blacks. The white person is quickly becoming a minority.
The NESCAC is pure YUPs who went to private schools and couldn’t get into Ivy Leagues.
NESCAC would have been a cleve post. Ivy League is obvious and wrong.
You missed Cinco De Mayo – A holiday certainly enjoyed by White People, albeit not as much as St. Patrick’s Day.
That is a lovely picture of Brown, by the way.
and George W. (moron) Bush went to Yale.
The whole time I was reading this, I was thinking about my school, which is called “The Harvard of the Midwest” (especially by people who went to school there), and then bam! right in the last line you nailed it. Nice.
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Uh… his name is Christian Lander.
He’s a white guy.
Hey, I’m writing this comment approximately from the location in the first picture! I love Brown and I’m a white male.
My school is also called “The Harvard of the Midwest” or “Princeton of the Prairie”…take your pick on whichever pretentious representation of a school in the middle of nowhere. Good job.
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So true. I go to Wash U, the Harvard of the St. Louis area, and I tell everyone that I only got in because I’m a minority. It makes people from my high school hate me less.
I wrote a poem about NJ and it starts “The armpit of the nation, the nightmares that I dream; the people and the way they talk just make me want to scream!”
Lived there four years and came out with most of my wits about me.
I hate those license plate holders that read “Alumni” and then the school. Shouldn’t it be “Alumnus” and then the school name? I mean, unless the entire family graduated from that school.
I’m just sayin’.
Brown is the West Virginia of the Ivy League. It’s the only one I would say is a shit school.
Half the reason to go to an Ivy is for the network. Brown’s is piss, we don’t hire people from Brown b/c they are sub average.
Northwestern?
That’s reason enough for me to stay far away from it.
UMSL?
STFU, you stupid rich boy. The lead in pure research output and quality has long been that of public university systems such as University of California, or University of Michigan.
Ivy league schools are mostly there to nanny stupid rich kids while giving their parents a hard needed status boost because of their flagging sex life.
Seriously, you’re a douchebag and so are your pretentious ivy league buddies.
I recall a cartoon of two men at a cocktail party ” You went to the Harvard of the South? I went to the Harvard of the Midwest!!!”
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It’s number 89 in the archives.
Somebody couldn’t get into an Ivy League School.
What you fail to realize is that most of the labs and research facilities at large universities are staffed by Ivy League educated docs.
If not academia, Ivy Leagues run Wall Street and big business. UCal and UofM are cute for trying though.
You forgot the part about how being an Ivy League Minority establishes your position as superior to the majority of White people.
You also forgot to connect the Ivy League with has more Jews and Asians than most schools which makes the average socially retarded nerdy white-boy feel like Brad Pitt.
Ivy Leaguers tend to also boast about their study abroad (already covered.)
“North East” is one word. Northeast.
Had you finished college, you probably would have learned how to express thoughts in writing without sounding retarded.
I think New England is probably the preferred reference, though that would exclude Cornell, Princeton and Pennsylvania in the Middle Atlantic States.
The Seven Sisters, of course are no more seven: Radcliffe having been swallowed up by Harvard and Vasser being a precious co-ed liberal arts place now. What remains are Smith and Mt Holyoke renowned as majority lesbian, Wellesly nearly so, Bryn Mawr as pretty much the most traditional of the remaining women’s colleges and Barnard (aka the Barnyard) as a second rate school now that Columbia admits women.
When my daughter visited Wellesley on an overnight, she had a pass made at her — so much for that school.
I didn’t go Ivy.
When I meet a minority who did go Ivy I think “Well, at least I’m white.” Which makes me better even if I went to community college.
Let’s be honest, most minorities are in Ivy b/c they are minorities. There is a 10-1 ratio of better qualified white people.
the only kid from my high school class who went to Reed was Jewish.
Don’t kid yourself that any French institution holds a candle to even second rate state schools.
Hard work and French are not often used in the same sentence. Except maybe:
I tried to get fired from a French company, it was hard work.
Why would anyone hate you for going to a TTT like Wash U?
Let’s hear it for the generic non-ivy, good old:
East Pottowattomie State Teachers Normal School & Veterinary College!
Home to the fighting Tit-willows! Where you can major in Animal Husbandry until they catch you at it. (pace Tom Lehrer)
Not true for tech schools… they don’t care about Harvard. Georgia Tech is the MIT of the south
I knew this girl who went to Kenyon, “the Harvard of Ohio”. These people are funny to me. Did she want me to be impressed by her second (or is that a third) tier school? I went to Hopkins. We didn’t need to be the Harvard of anywhere.
The Harvard of the Midwest, as in Northwestern University … or Harvard, also known as the Northwestern of the Northeast.
Whats up with this minority crap?You don’t have to be a colour to be a minority. A woman is a minority who is the majority? White males? Rock on with your Jerry Falwell self. No wonder homosexuality looks like such a great alternative. Happy Tuesday!!!
Don’t forget the nasty smells too.
It’s interesting but true that the ivies are no longer nearly as heavily WASP as they once were, with all of the Asians, Jews, Catholics and the Affirmative Action admits.
The real WASP bastions these days are probably what get called “little ivies” the handful of top New England liberal arts colleges (Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst, Middlebury now, maybe still Wellesley and Wesleyan), and a few others scattered around the country (Washington & Lee and Davidson in the South, Carelton and Grinnell in the Midwest, and the Pomona Colleges (well, really only Pomona and Scripps) in California). These places remain 80% white or so, and predominantly (at least nominally) Protestant.
“Once you have determined that a white person did not attend an Ivy League School, you should try to give them the opportunity to explain why their school was actually a superior educational experience. Some easy ways to do this are to mention grade inflation, professors who value research over teaching, or high tuition costs.”
OMG, I just experienced this first hand. I was at a party recently and found myself in a group of people, most of whom I was just meeting for the first time. Turns out one guy had gone to Harvard and this other guy, who went to some small podunk college, was totally sortof “attacking” the Harvard guy. He was saying that he had an awesome experience and that his professors didn’t care about research, that they valued TEACHING. And he kept saying this. “There’s no publish or perish mentality at my school” he would say. Then he kept asking questions like, “Don’t classes at Harvard have, like, 1000 people in them?” And he also revealed that if he had to do it all over again, he would go to the same school.
The Harvard guy was completely gracious about the whole thing. If I had gone to Harvard, I would have slapped this guy up the head for being so annoying or at least excused myself to go get another drink.
(For the record, I graduated from Cooper-Union and have lots of Ivy friends, mostly from Columbia and a few from Yale, so maybe I am a little biased. I am also secure about myself and where I went to school.)
This blog is evidence that anything is possible with enough effort and I want to congratulate the author on all his accomplishments..with this blog…satire at its best..:)
Yes, white people like Ivy League schools, but what this article fails to mention is that the picture of Bill Bradley was taken inside Toads Place, and #99 should be dancing in dance clubs that it takes 6 drinks to enjoy because they don’t actually know how to dance.
Well, technically women aren’t minorities, as they make up 51% of the population. On most college campuses, they approach 55%. If you want to say women are “disadvantaged’ or discriminated against, fine. Say so. But do so correctly.
The most pretentious white college league is the NESCAC. I would know – I am currently at one of the NESCAC schools.
More than 60% of my grade is from private school – 30% + are from boarding schools.
Don’t be mad. White people have affirmative action too. I think it’s called nepotism and cronyism. What you need are better connections. Ask George W.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Justice, Truth, and Equality?
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No but we like to imply that they should then make not-so-subtle references that broadcast “Well I DO!!”
Ha ! Good one- Spheksophobic: Fear of WASPS!
THANK YOU! “Cyber-dap” on that! (New phrase white people, feel free to use it. Afterall, you use everything else “cool” that we (black people) innovate from Slapping palms to pressing fists- Feel free to appropriate the “Cyber-dap” too ! No hard feelings, afterall, you gave us Clander.
I’m currently at Tufts, a school that would LOVE to call itself the Harvard-of-something were it not for the fact that the real thing is just down the street. As a result, kids here get a nagging sense of insecurity (how white of them!) and a 200,000 tuition bill. You can’t win ’em all.
Ah, yes. Harvard: the McGill of the south.
Uhmmm, unfortunately Howard is not 100% black
I’ve got nothing against the east coast, growing up on the west coast, everybody wanted to go to Berkley, USC or UCLA. But I also don’t have any rich friends that could even dream of beginning to afford an Ivy League school.
YAY for harvard of the south: EMORY! 😀
Is getting a scholarship a bad thing now?
wow!
Eugh, kinda true. I’m not sure if saying where I went to school is considered bragging or what. I just say I went to school in New York and if someone wants to push, I’ll tell them where.
That should definitely be a subject for discussion. I avoid the situation myself: on the rare occasion I find myself in a dance club, I get really wasted and tune out the music and imagine these people are just flopping around as though they were insane. It gets a little creepy though, watching these people jerk around like someone jammed a stick up their butt and was making them jerk all over the place. Usually I have to leave before I wretch. 😦
You’re supposed to have a lesbian experience in college. Getting hit on during a visit is promising.
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You can have a much SWPL-er experience at a small liberal arts college.
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Nope– Emory is the Tufts of the south. I went to Tufts (just as competitive as an Ivy League school, we just didn’t want to join their sports league) and worked at Emory.
I go to University of Maryland, the “Harvard of not-quite-in-Washington,DC-where-Georgetown-and-GWU-are-but-I-wouldnt-want-to-go-to-those-schools-anyway-cuz-I’m-not-white-enough”
You know, that one.
It’s hard to pull off the “Harvard of the ….” trick when you went to college in Mass.
“I went to the Harvard of slightly north of Harvard.” sounds kinda dumb, so we just go with the “Ivy league is overrated” approach.
i go to the harvard of online universities
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Villanova isn’t protestant but it’s the catholic version of any of those schools. It’s the fuck-up kids with trust funds, pink polos and boat shoes, who didn’t get into an ivy and aren’t upset about it, since we have more fun here anyways.
No, that would be the University of Chicago. Half of the Nobel Prizes in economics is even more than Harvard. But Northwestern people are nicer. So you got that going for you. Which is good.
You’re telling me Colgby, Trinity, Hamilton, Middlebury, Colgate, and Bates haven’t been brought into this conversation?? White people love telling about there days back at these schools when they’re at their summer home in Maine.
Um, Michigan is a state school. Immediate disqualification. And if all you have to go on is something JFK once said, something you clearly have trotted out before since you remembered such an esoteric quote… then I’m sorry your life didn’t turn out the way you wanted.
“Harvard of the________” is clever but way too derivative and formulaic. BTW, Rolls Royce is the Cadillac of cars.
JESUS WAS A BLACK MAN LYNCHED ITALIAN STYLE
Hurrah for Penn and Ivy League halo effect!
If you read the conditions of Harvard’s extension programs, you’ll see that they expressly forbid you from putting “Harvard” on your resume. So you can say it at a bar, but not in an interview.
Amherst is reaching out to low-income students, and is no more waspy than any schools in the ivy league.
No one refers to U of C as the Harvard of the Midwest, and that makes sense. U of C would be more like the Princeton of the Midwest.
Like white folks have been discriminating against EVERYONE for centuries.
You’ll get yours, and soon.
So I don’t qualify for the minority affirmative action or the white person affirmative action either??? I guess I need better connections too. Can we have affirmative action for white people who can’t benefit from nepotism or cronyism?
Like that elitist brat, Chelsea Clinton.
Don’t forget white females, the largest group of affirmative action recipients in the U.S.
Yes
So true! At my college (a private women’s college), they always said it was as hard as Harvard. And the university up the road (Emory) called itself the “Harvard of the South!”
You must be the wrong type of white person.
I think the Columbia of the Northwest would be more accurate.
Eh, I’ve heard Michigan called The Harvard of the Midwest or something. Doesn’t matter if it’s a state school. What matters is that its administrators are really full of themselves.
Not a very funny post.
The phrase “school of the hard knocks” appears nowhere on this page.
I think that is where Wesley “kill whitey” Willis went. White people love him…
Harvard of Ohio? You mean Oberlin, right?
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A college student hit on your daughter, omfg call the police!
Take yr homophobia elsewhere. You’re the wrong kind of white person. Or just the wrong kind of person.
i went to the university of southern california, rich and white, but not as intelligent. One day, no lie, a professor stopped a lecture suddenly and informed us that he’d continue to teach us more “if this was harvard.” since it was “only USC”, he’d have to stop. he was making a point that every school has the same ability to pass along the same information, regardless of reputation. at least, that’s what i think his point was. i was hung-over from st. patrick’s day.
yuppie pricks. gotta love ’em NOT! LOL
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Good to know. So if you do not get into one, there is always another Harvard in Ohio!
heh, wow, i really got a kick out of this. it so happens i’m an undergrad at the pictured university…in fact, i was doing some studying on the green shown a couple hours ago. i don’t think i’m particularly better than anybody…do i really have a whole life of insecure questioning ahead of me?
also, emily: as a resident of Amherst (town) and an ivy-er, i can say with certainty that Amherst (college) is whiter and preppier than a J. Crew catalog.
Wow, it must be really lonely down there to claim such a name as The Harvard of the only existing university of that region of Arizona (also: The Harvard of Mexico). Ha ha.
haha tufts is just as competitive as ivy league schools.. please
i cant believe everyones debaitng whether their schools were the harvard of the whatever
i went to an ivy league school, and yeah it really was better than other schools.. obviously. the students are just smarter
theyre not as smart as u think they are tho
i agree. my big asian family thinks i’m stupid because i *choose* not to go to an ivy school or any school with the reputation, “the harvard of whatever.” the east coast sucks.
As the father of a daughter who will graduate from Columbia in just 15 days (yea, end of tuition and fees bills), I am happy.
So does that make Brown is the Berkeley of the Ivy League?
I am currently attending the Yale of the greater montgomery county area
hahahah. i avoid that school. its actually “the harvard of i grow up in maryland and i cant get in anywhere else but smart people from my high school goes to university of maryland so that makes me feel better about not going to a community college.”
harvard of intellectual lesbians.
Oh the wonderful life of the Ivy League. 😀
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i rejected upenn (not penn state!) to go to a party school. but then i’m not white…
I went to the harvard of the north east…..also called harvard…
OOO I LOVE THE COLORFUL BLOCKS!
just like dressing up as a business woman, romy and michele? lmao
just dont say you invented post-its
Yale is a state of mind.
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Dude, get a life. Your meaningless posts bring down the comments section. Do you need attention? Then make a sex tape. Oh wait, no one cares about you. Fucking retard.
actually, harvard isnt a very hard school to get through, its hard to get in, but once your in, its not much harder then any other school.
I dont know why white people would want to attend a school with a 30 billion dollar endowment, and they refse to pay for every student at the college. They could easily pay for everystudent for another 150 years with the money they have, but they dont. white people hate corporations, and harvard is a terrible corporation….same with yale, and princeton…
The only ivy league that is fairly good is brown, they are fairly liberal and “fun”..
stanford is actually paying the college tuition for students whos parents make less then 100k…and they pay half the tuition for parents that make more then 200k, so i feel its a more genuine school, plus its top notch in education..
You mean “Tulane”, and the answer is yes.
just what we need, a bunch of women who are so feminist they will actually vote for a white republican man over another woman, just so people wont say “your just voting for her because she a women”….those are the terrible feminists…
whats wrong with voting for people like you? 92% of black people vote for obama, but nobodys calling them racist…white people have to vote for him so they arnt called racist…
I’m not sure what gets on my nerves more, this blog or the people who write comments about it. I did not go to an Ivy League school. I grew up in the south so I really only went to college to get my MRS degree. That means that yes, for all you Northeastern Feminazis, I went to college to find a suitable husband. I ended up with a BA which I guess is pretty white of me. I am now a stay at home mom. My husband who dropped out of Florida State makes more money than most Ivy League physicians.
This may be the last time I read this blog. It just makes me hate all of mankind.
your right, just 99% of the campus is…im sure that 1% is the dumber asian population who A) Couldnt afford brown/yale/harvard/princeton, or B) they didnt do well enough on the SATs and the extra curricular activities to get in..and probabl thought howard would be a breeze…and for an asian, isnt all schooling a breeze?
“Money and family connections won’t get you in,” but the lack thereof will keep you out. That said, the Grandes Ecoles are the best instruments of technocracy ever devised, and if there was ever any educational system of ‘earned’ privilege, it was them.
thats actually very true, stanford is the better school. People are moving away from berkley because its too asian, and white people hate it when asians are not only the smartest in the school, but are the majority in the school…
thats why stanford is harder to get into…more and more white people are trying to get in, and stanford is kind of on an asian hangover, so they dont feel the need to let anymore in like they used too, but if your black with halfway decent grades, you can get into any university…just like this blog says..
I think what you’ve identified is acclimation to a culture of privilege, and that all the bastions of “what white people like” are positions and preferences that privilege allows them to take. The fact that this blog distinguishes between white people and the wrong kind of white people is an important division between wealth and cultural standards – this is the upper (middle) class culture of the segment of the society that aspires to be not upper class but upper middle class. It’s examining a privileged elite; a “stuff white people like” focused on white trash, appalachia, or the South more generally would be very different. People don’t aspire to that and don’t act like that with the accumulation of wealth because the standard is set by the safer, more dominant WASPy suburbia.
OMG METO!…all the lesbians that represent the sister schools! lmao
And a free waffle maker!
When some one making a pass doesn’t accept ‘I’m not interested’ – regardless of straight or gay – and everybody else lets the uninterested person know that it’s going to be a regular occurrence at the college, at least my kid said that wasn’t the kind of college experience she was looking for.
Not to be confused with Christian Laettner, who went to the Harvard of the South – Duke.
thats just sad….but soooo funny….but sad….arts degrees are useless….
sure…..keep telling yourself that
My Irish Catholic buddy calls this “oppression envy.”
you’re just jealous that you didn’t get in. but wait, let’s give you a chance to explain why the non-ivy league school you went to was a far superior educational experience, to quote swpl
…so sad, everyone knows trust fund babies dont BUY 9 dollar drinks, they are added to their tab that usually gets paid off at the end of the summer by one of fathers lawyers…ugh when people try to pretend to be a wasp its so insulting, what do we look like, the household help?
you must be angry because your life sounds awfully dissatisfying.
berkley is becoming less and less white as time goes on, its all about stanford now, 4 years ago it was berkley, but since the asian population became 53 percent, white people stopped wanting to go, because asians only make us look bad when it comes to education, luckily it takes way more then a high class education to succeed in the business world, something asians have yet to conquer, but they will, they always do.
Yay! The Ivy League!!!! So much we agree on!
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dont be jealous, it isnt a pretty look….and to correct you, chelsea went to stanford first, then became a rhodes scholar and went to oxford….
and why should a college pay for its students?
kind of, we all want one but scholarships that are of any help (10k plus), are very hard to get, and are usually given to once again, an asian, just because they have wonderful extra activities, and perfect 4.5 GPAs…
so to make white people feel good about themselves, they discount good scholarships as being to asian to get, and the fact that they can say they worked through school is an extra “way to go” for white people….
even the jews are getting pushed out of the ivy leagues by the asians and foreign indian borns (whose parents are probably worth 5 billion+), the jews have assimilated rather well, so they are going to the more liberal arts schools, the asians and rich indians on the other hand still see the ivy leagues as the best universities…sadly they are mistaken..
i like the ivy league…kinda
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I used to want to go to an Ivy League…but then I realized I wasn’t a family legacy!
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I visited Harvard. They wouldn’t let me into the library, but I did use the bathroom there. It was really old!
I went to KU. It’s funny, but all my friends and I knew the school wasn’t that great. We considered doing a recruiting video:
“KU: Where the lazy just sorta end up.”
These would be our testimonials:
“I’m incredibly lazy. KU was really close to my parent’s house so I don’t have to do my own laundry.”
“Well, I don’t like writing too much, but I needed to apply for college. My parents pointed out that the KU application was only two pages long, so I decided to apply there!”
“I avoid talking to people whenever I can. KU didn’t require an interview and they gave me scholarship money for just showing up. They aren’t requiring me to participate in anything.”
And yes, we were all VERY white. Maybe if you go to a state college in the Midwest, this doesn’t apply. Or maybe my friends are all just incredibly lazy, and proud of it.
hey dumbshit,
A: Harvard has been around since the 1600s: hence, they are not interested in squandering their entire endowment in the next 150 years paying tuition that wealthy parents can easily afford.
B: Stanford followed Harvard in their generous financial aid policies for upper-middle-class students.
You mean they’re pyromaniacs at Brown, too?
Nobody ever gives enough play to the Harvard of Luxembourg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Luxembourg).
Uncultured American swine! Our first-ever university is only five years old and isn’t being eated away by ivy.
Some people don’t wanna brag, and others don’t wanna LOOK like they’re bragging as that’d be, y’know, gauche but still want someone to press the issue so that they can brag w/o bragging. Very zen!
Grove City College?
The most ironic thing is that white women have benefited the most from Affirmative Action.
Need more time to take your foot out of your mouth?
Umm… they wouldn’t squander their endowment. They could pay tuition for all students off of interest. My school could do the same, but doesn’t either (it’s tuition fees are roughly equivalent, and its endowment is not as large); I find this obnoxious, but I see no overwhelmingly compelling reason to say that they *should* pay for them. It would be nice, though.
Alas, my school has never been called the Harvard of its region, but it is located right next to a bridge named after the Harvard of its region.
I suspect that the subliminal reason that Harvard and Yale, followed closely by Princeton, strike fear and loathing in so many of us who graduated from “other” colleges has less to do with invidious comparisons of academic excellence, social privilege, and prohibitive tuition than with the intuitive recognition that these institutions have contributed disproportionately to the political and cultural elites who have and still govern our country and thereby exercise resented power, control and influence over our lives.
Have you been alive since 1988? Starting at the top before you review many other fields, take a look at the Ivy League credentials of our presidents over this 20 year period and at the Democratic candidates likely to occupy the White House for another 8 years.
George H.W. Bush – YALE
Bill Clinton – YALE (law degree)
George W. Bush – YALE
Hillary Clinton – YALE (law degree)
Barak Obama – HARVARD (law degree)
Number one or number two?
Sorry but University of OKlahoma has that cornered. ISU must be second rate even among second raters.
I go to Harvard and routinely win the trust of white people with the comment that “I wish there were more people here like you.” Free drinks all night.
That has merit, I second the motion.
You think whites are racist? hang out with other cultures. We’re really tolerant compared to most asians and blacks.
I have to say…as much as I loathe Helvetica (it’s a cop-out), it’s totally appropriate for that book cover. White people who think they know about graphic design are all about some Helvetica.
Oh the wonderful life of the Ivy League.
Most blacks attending Ivy League schools are through affirmative action.
If I hit on a woman and fail it’s a small personal failure, If a gay/lesbian makes a pass and fails it’s homophobia. Get over your bad selves.
dont worry, i went to ucla, same thing, rich white kids from beverly hills/bel air/brentwood/holmby hills, who were somewhat smart, but since their parent knows someone who knows someone who knows someone at ucla, they got in, even tho there GPA was 2.8 and SAT score was 1400. TONS of asians tho, which is great because they will let you cheat if they are in the i-wanna-be-friends-with-hot-white-popular-people-group-of-asians that exist on every campus, although there are the im-to-good-to-lend-my-notes-to-damn-white-people-who-are-just-trying-to-use-me-asians, which kind of blows, but you can usually spot them if they are dressed too trendy…so.
Ucla is a tough though….there are tons of pulitzer prize winning professors, and a couple nobel prize winners in there too…
the classes arent that crowded since alot of the teachers are hippys and always have like “pleasure days”, which they think will let the student let loose on a day that they should be going to class but since it was cancelled, they want you to reflect on everything you learned from the previous week…
it was great, challenging, but great..
I doubt it, I’ve seen evidence only of ego inflation, not learning in college.
Damn funny!
awe how sad, she might be happy in a role that women have been fufilling for thousands of years, and yet nobody knows any of their names….one the upside though, my dad graduated from florida state with a masters in geology…although his degree means absolutely nothing at his work….funny though, but he makes fantastic money so eh
sounds alot like uc longbeach in california…very lazy school for retards….but everyone is incredibly white, and hot…
Half of the Nobel Prizes in economics is even more than Harvard.
How many of these Nobel Prize winners are black? The only economics these monkeys are good for is slave labor. 🙂
I doubt it will ever show up in your work performance.
You forget how many free rides are given each year to football players who can’t spell their own names, who will, nevertheless, pass with 4.0 averages. Another reason I hate all universities.
i thought obama went to yale as well….hm o well, seems like his “tough childhood” wasnt all that bed, private schools in hawaii, coke binges, what a terrible life, but im thinking he is just saying “being black in hawaii” was the hard part, oh poor barrack obama, i feel so bad for him……….not
‘sub average’, lulz. I’m sure!
“challenging”- Making something mildly difficult into something torturous for the purpose of building “character” or the ability to eat ten miles of shit just so you can beg to lick the hole it came from.
that is not true! they make the best damn chicken this side of KFC…..jk jk i actually like black people, honest, i just had to respond..
Rural people are mocked all the time, often by those who’ve never been outside of a city. This is interesting because it’s rare.
I was in a conversation with a black man a few years back who told me he had just earned his Ph.D.. I congratulated him and asked him which college. His reply? L.A. County Jail.
I feel the same about OU. They really don’t give a shit about their students, and treat them like marks.
Haha, I still have that t-shirt from the Roddick Gates
your right about athletes, but thats different, we are used to them getting free rides to expensive schools, but we know that what they are doing, is the only thing they can do, becuase they arent very smart….
so once they break their legs or smash their knee, games over, your done, nobody wants you…its the chance that their whole lifes plan can be wiped out with a simple break of a bone, is why colleges give them free rides…
plus, without all those athletes, where are you gunna go on saturday night that heavy drinking and vomitting on the street is seen as O.K?
Yeah, and all of these geniuses are leading this country into the dumpster. Some recommendation for the Ivy League.
‘theyre not as smart as u think they are tho’
Case in point.
I went to the Harvard of Partying:
UC Santa Barbara
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Everybody has nepotism and cronyism, it’s not even close to a white person specialty. In fact the places that have it worst are places like the Phillipines and Mexico, which are hardly white.
I wonder if the Skull and Bones still have the skull of that blanket-ass Geronimo. I suppose that’s one way for an Indian to attend Yale other than through affirmative action. 🙂
Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio is the Harvard of the black schools in rural Ohio.
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I just want to see what color blocks appear with this post.
Interesting … like a kaleidoscope.
OMG….I literally just came back from visiting my younger cousin who goes to Princeton (he got in on a football scholarship)….The campus/dorms/dininghalls/ etc. are all pretty amazing….I spent the WHOLE weekend trying to figure out “why” the kids there were so much more special, why should they get to go to an IVY league school and I had to settle for a community college/state school education (which I have come to conclude really was a good education =p).
All college kids are the same…all looking for the next party and the underage ones are just looking for someone to buy tehm more beer…..$45k a year is a friggin expensive party budget..
basically I left feeling jealous and superior all at the same time.
LOVE THE BLOG…keep it up
LOL! So true, so true. They also love (1) small, private liberal arts colleges and (2) majoring in things like philosophy or German. =)
hence my cousin who is the Philosophy major at Princeton….
With the infrequent blog posts and dropoff of creativity and originality, I am afraid that you have killed whatever buzz you generated and I doubt your book will be a success.
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i agree! any person who thinks jesus could have been black has to be retarded!
Christian, have you looked at the photos of the graduating classes of Ivy League schools lately? Or referenced the statistics? Because if you had, you’d be overwhelmed by the distinct lack of white people there, white males in particular.
It’s disturbing, bordering on genocidal, and certainly meets the definition of ethnic cleansing.
Not the shiny happy comment you may have hoped for, but you’re about thirty years behind the times if you equate white people with the Ivy Leagues and that needs to be pointed out.
EXACTLY. Well, at least you’re still awesome. Thanks for the brilliant comment! Keep it up. Dickhead.
white women love rich white men so they can be a stay at home mom and raise their kids to pressure them to become what these women never get to become. going to an ivy league school is actually one of them.
princeton began to top harvard in us news rankings when i applied to college. wasnt bothered to apply to either. (the “ivy” prestige i actually went for were mit and upenn). but honestly, i am pretty sure princeton is the real elitist school that’s actually both hard to get in and hard to get through. one of the grad students here got kicked out of princeton because she counldnt finish her degree on time. she ended up coming back here, the school which she went for college to finish her phd…
if you’re trying to be a funny racist, can you at least try soemthing that is actually funny. You’re giving white people, even the racist ones really bad name.
That would be the truth that affirmative action opponents either are not well-informed enough to know, or the truth about which they are just being plain disingenuous.
Clander, your grammar has always kinda detracted from your writing. I sure hope you have a good editor on hand for your book.
The point had already been illustrated at length in 2000 by the journalist David Brooks in his sometimes wry work of amateur social theory (Brooks called it “comic sociology”) Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. The fusion of bourgeois and bohemian — hence the unfortunate bobo, deliberately reminiscent of clowns and monkeys — resulted as a natural consequence of the information age, creating a new upper class, to quote the book’s subtitle. The postmodern information economy, which McLuhan (and Innis before him) had so deftly analyzed, has created, for the first time in history, a situation where ideas are as “vital to economic success as natural resources or finance capital.” Bobos are the natural aristocrats of an idea-based world.
“These Bobos define our age,” Brooks claimed. “They are the new establishment. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we all breathe. Their status codes now govern social life.” The images of bobo work and play are now stock-in-trade, if not mere cliché, cultural description: suv-driving, npr-listening, Adorno-quoting upper-middles who live for expensive fair trade coffee and organic baby arugula, and hang a Free Tibet flag over the three-car garage of the house in Berkeley with a three-bridge view (or in Toronto, a lake view, proximity to Starbucks, a radio tuned to cbc, and access to Cumbrae Farms organic beef ).
Amy,
Jesus could have been brown man like Barack Obama.
do you know Moses of the bible married a black woman i.e Cushit or Nubian or Ancient Ethiopia.
Except for the fact that you’ve got it all wrong. HARVARD is the Pomona College of the East. Fairly significant difference–we’ve got a superiority complex while the Harvards of the___ clearly feel inferior.
White points are awarded if you were an Ivy legacy and then went on to a career in fly fishing or rock climbing or the Company.
Substantial White points accrue to those who drop out and then go on to a successful career as an inventor.
Regrettably, White points are not longer awarded to Ivy Leaguers who become politicians.
However, it’s far more White to drop out of an Ivy League school and become an alcoholic.
Best comment, ever 🙂
Can’t the owner of this blog make people need to register, or at least moderate comments so that jerk-offs like “Blue-Eyed Columbus” don’t spam the comments section with bs?
“source of comparison so that they need to figure out if you are actually smarter than them.”
It’s “smarter than they”
Well, because as we all know, women’s colleges are full of lesbians. That’s why they were invented actually. It has nothing to do with the empowerment of women, and women who go aren’t interested in the fact that over half of all women CEOs are graduates of women’s colleges. All they want is the chance to try it on with other girls. Because, I mean, after all, there aren’t lesbians at other universities.
I’m sorry your daughter was so shocked, but to base you judgment of an entire university based on the actions of one person? Oh please.
Sorry to rant, but as a graduate of a women’s college that recently went coed, it’s a bit of a soapbox point. Though, I mean, clearly we don’t need feminism anymore anyway… women make just as much money as men, aren’t discriminated against in terms of employment and childcare, and insurance companies cover birth control for the purposes of birth control alone and not viagra… Oh… wait. Maybe not.
Ivy league schools look good on a resume, that’s about it. A good education is just that. I would not trade one moment of the torture I went through attending night school, working full time and attaining my education. It was worth every agonizing moment I spent my life on. Did I for one moment think about an Ivy league school? I don’t think so.
Dude, get a life, take a break from commenting, and read a grammar book. It’s getting tedious.
You should know by now that White People love correcting other people’s grammar.
and all that terrible gold leafing….
I know, but this is what happens when he only does one blog a week.
Funny you should call yourself a nazi, because your colorful square kind of looks like a swastika without the middle.
Luckily, I wasnt an english major, otherwise my job options would have been limited to administrative assistant.
I like to write, if you dont like it, them im sorry.
I know white people correct grammar, but thats only for white people who are insecure with themselves.
I think we should just elect brangilina as our king and queen, i mean come on, its not like they could do worse, plus they are both hot, and we know she has the kids, so we wont have a lack of fun royalty offsprings.
Im also in support of lordships, and barrons, and counts.
then society would have a goal to marry up and be social, to up their social class. instead we strive to be celebrities with sex tapes…….
I could see Her Royal Majesty Shiloh Jolie-Pitt of The Great United States of America and New Canada…..
im also assuming we take full control over canada..come on it would be sooooo easy….
Who cares?! Jesus could’ve been purple polka-dotted for all I care. Arguing over Jesus’ skin color is like saying you think the first dinosaur was a black man!
I live in a little house made of tick-tacky. But I listen to NPR. Well, I say I do. But it’s really boring.
LOL!
Ami, I didn’t mean to imply that grants, scholarships, student-loans or help from your parents are in any way “bad.” Putting myself through school is just something that I’m proud of. Earning a scholarship is also something to be proud of. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
Nu-uh. All my Southern WP friends and I make mojitos with our mint leaves. It’s not 1808, you know.
One of my white friend totally says this about her school
“The Harvard of the ”.
Too funny
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised and all. I mean, hatin’ is yo game, man.
http://stuffwhitedbagslike.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/the-ivy-league/
But you have to admit, it’s funny. Not funny haha, but funny weird.
Not so sure about this one, really richer uppper class white people still like the ivy league stuff but it is not what it used to be.
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You, sir, are an idiot.
Do you really intend to suggest that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama or any other number of blacks who attend and attended Harvard and the other Ivy League schools are/were not academically qualified to be there?
Or are you just disgruntled because you weren’t good enough to gain an admissions interview?
Speak up, boy!
I went to Princeton – if you think that’s set me up for life, you are seriously stupid. On the other hand, people who go there for that reason might just get what they’re looking for.
Rebecca – let’s clarify. Harvard is not the Northwestern of anything. But Northwestern is good enough on its own to be able to not be called the whatever of Chicago.
Plus, Northwestern has better and less insane admission policies than does Harvard.
Norma – yes, gw went to Yale (did he really graduate) as did Ironpantsuit and her hubby Bill the monica lickee.
gw also, for reasons not clear to even himself, attended the Harvard Business School. His tuition for HBS, rumored, was paid for by the liquor companies.
Duke’s admission policies are even dumber than Harvard’s.
Jack – it is uber-cool to walk the streets of hahvahcd squay yah wearing gear that proclaims I am a proud graduate of Bunker Hill Community College.
hey double-dumpshit – harvard pays for 90% of the tuition (not room & board or books or lab or stud fees) of the students whose parents make less than 180k. they and other well-endowed schools are forced to do this because of new IRS regulations.
The IRS. The Harvard of Washington, D.C., and not totally useless anymore.
I am a white chick who finds your column consistently hilarious and spot-on. I bet some of your best friends are white people ; )
I had to point out the fact that I’m a white chick because this is the Internet and you wouldn’t know therwise…and because, well, that’s what white people do.
Keep up the good work!
I would never have guess, Nathan.
The University of Chicago is the Northwestern of Chicago.
Tufts is considered a Little Ivy.
Good school which does compete against Harvard in some sports. But Tufts is located in Meffah and Scummerville. EEeeeewwwww!!
What is powdahhouse squay ah known for? Tufts and a funeral home.
The seven sistahs would be more fun if they’d post youtubes of themselves dancing the nekkit macarena.
Is it true that M.Albright and Ironpantsuits had topless photos taken of themselves upon admission to Wellesley? But that those photos are now located at Yale? Is that how Bill found Ironpantsuit?
no one wants to be the michigan of anything.
Yeah…but you can eat an ice cream cone on The Boardwalk. Very white.
Actually, in many cases the AA edge squeezes out the intended “urban” (in non PR-speak: poor) beneficiary in favor of the detached Af-Am super-class Cosby’s always ranting about; at least, that’s how it was when I graduated from Harvard last year: way too many “gangstas” driving M-classes around. Fortunately, these kids were also the subject of frequent chastising by black-alums railing on their “living the stereotype.” Though I have no idea what Barack’s dress habits were back in the day, to quote the venerable Tracy Morgan during a previous SNL “I’m way more BLACK than him” and I’m just a white guy who happened to grow up in the hood (albeit Canadian).
The systemic discrimination from a lifetime of poorer-quality schools, extra-curricular activities, and generally negative social reinforcement is what really needs to be addressed. Harvard’s gone a long way making it essentially free for anyone with a family income under ~$160(?)k but only real progress on social policies can make the next step happen. That means no longer providing power and import to “the Reverends”, or supporting policies that simply appease white-guilt (perhaps, AA) but do not address the real target audience or underlying inequality.
A.J. – Richmond is mostly populated by spiders from pennsyltucky. It is the Boston University of Richmond, minus all the jewish people.
WVU is the bunker hill community college of west virginia.
youse guys can’t even beat pitt in sports. that’s really pitt-iful.
yes, CS, that is correct.
unless you originated in malden and hung around riley’s roast beef every friday night.
Way to grind a joke underneath your heel into the ground.
This is an extremely white debate! Good work!
Me? I went to a school that’s much too cool to compare itself to Ivy League. We liked to “stick it to the man”, y’know?
LSU is the nothing of nothing.
Well, no, that’s not true.
LSU is the USC track team of the south.
Yes, but do the professors care more about research than teaching?
grove city college? that’s not amish.
how about harrisburg area community college, lancaster campus? graduation rate… 15%
You’re missing the point. It’s a happy couple of alumi . . . Also, be aware that “Alumnus” is masculine, “Alumna” feminine.
You would have known that if you went to Berkeley, the “Harvard of the Hippies”.
I’m 1/8th Native American. I’m totally a brother with the oppressed indigeneous people.
plariarism is ugly.
winning the lottery is beautiful. beats your smith barney internshit any day of the week. at least I don’t have to bend over for the weekly intake.
smanda – depends on how well you can moo.
berkley is too friggen white.
especially when all those hippies from the 60’s start taking off their clothes. get some color, dude!
Please spell it correctly – it’s “Berkeley”. If you can’t wrap your head around that, use “Cal” or “UCB” instead.
The Ivies have one major thing over your ecole. The chicas at the Ivies shower and (sometimes) shave. The frenchettes do not shower, never shave and dance with goats. Why would anyone want to hang out with a goatee?
Way to feed the trolls..
As a Pitt alum, I am proud I was there to witness our guys ruin their day.
I also count myslef lucky that I got out of Morgantown in one piece.
let’s be clear about something: football players are not athletes.
jeff – quit bragging.
Yeah, I presently go to the Harvard of Canada.
There are indeed many Amish in Western PA, sir (madam?). Which is one reason I suspect that’s a relatively low Latino influx in the region. We already have folks who will work hard on the cheap.
Plus, WP Bonus!, they make great furntiure.
suz – you live either in allston/brighton or scummerville. i pity you.
It’s not about trying, it’s truly the physical inability for white people to dance. With a few exceptions (the wrong king of white people), it’s impossible to loosen up and get past one’s sense of other people watching you.
And your problem with 6 drinks or so is????
harvard’s physics program is the MIT… no, wait. That’s not right.
harvard’s physics program is run by idiots who lose millions in grant and industry bucks every blessed year. BU’s physics program is better than harvard’s.
last time I walked by the Tufts campuse, I saw non-whites. in fact, all of the non-whites who hang out at Teal Square and Davis Square go to Tufts. There ain’t no non-whites in meffah, yanno.
This can be easily seen through the news coverage of the “new ivies” http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401 and yes, I go to one of them. Because the ivies didn’t give me enough financial aid. ::Sigh:: you guys are always spot on.
Don’t forget the entire Kennedy crime family.
WVU is the bunker hill community college of west virginia. ya alls cain’t even beat pitt. that’s just pitt-iful.
love the alden indoor track.
junker – what about barack obama? or his wife? or the profs who teach there? what about yo momma?
well, in all fairness, there is a difference between research and teaching. too many school are so focused on research as a revenue stream that they’ve forgotten how to teach. I’d much prefer a professor who can teach than a researcher who is totally incapable of instruction and relies on a retard research assistant to handle his class work duties.
that being said, podunk u is podunk u for a reason.
University of Maryland… the John Hopkins of … college park?
Went to Penn. We laugh at Brown students, literally. If they come to our campus we mock them.
zoomass is the amherst of east amherst.
What about barack obama or his baby mamma? Am I supposed to be impressed by them? He is America’s next Dukakis, but black, kind of. His wife is embarrassing.
Minoritiy profs, granted there are exceptions, are also there to create diversity. Again, there are probably dozens of more qualified whites who were not considered due to color.
My momma is about as qualified to be president as obama. She went to state school and was a nurse. She might actually be more qualified.
if you went to college just to get your MRS degree, does that mean you went to Messiah College, Liberty or some other school like that where the value of a woman is limited to her inner thighs? Or where you have to suck up to the al gonzaleses of this world like Monica Goodling did? if your husband makes more than anyone else, does that mean he’s a televangelist preacher who rips off little old ladies on limited incomes? now, that’s mighty white of ya!
obama did NOT go to Yale.
his standards are much higher than Ironpantsuit.
Lancaster is very Amish and there are a TON of Latinos. I guess it was started by some work program back in the 70s and 80s, similar to Chicago.
So while you can get good Amish labor, “downtown” lancaster is mostly hispanic
buffy – white chicks who post themselves doing the buffy are way more popular than anybody on the planet. just ask paris hilton how her buffy pushed up her buzz.
That’s because you never would have gotten in an Ivy.
dude. word! canada has no hoods. just ice rinks and few polar bears.
give me some time to research that, okay?
I usually hate the turds that point out grammar mistakes, but the last few posts wrought with mistakes.
I never had a lesbian experience while at college. Is there something wrong with me?
Cthulhu says, “College is for the weak and feeble minded.”
I know several graduates of Smith, but all are married with children.
homophobia is such an interesting word.
fear of homo sapiens?
cheating got me in to an Ivy League school. Literally– i did a study of cheating in high school, and it won awards, and probably catapulted me to the top of the admissions pile.
12 years later, having the ivy league on the resume does still does help for sure whenever i look for a job. but was it worth the $100k? doubt it. Was it worthwhile?
not sure– and it did mean I had to spend four years with people who were all talkers and not listeners, who were used to being the overachieving center of attention, and who were so focused on the future that they barely noticed the present. it made for great class discussions, but the social life and interaction with the locals made me understand why the locals would swerve to try to hit undergraduate pedestrians.
Amish furniture tends to be made in Ohio or Lancaster County. There’s not a whole lot of Amish in Allegheny County. The Amish country of pennsyltucky remains Lancaster County.
spot on, dog!
Duke wishes. Taken classes there; a very overrated, egocentric institution that tries WAY too hard to compare itself to the schools ranked above it.
The Duke family modeled the school’s aesthetic exactly after Princeton and put acid on the stone steps to give them a “worn” look. That pretty much sums up Duke.
find me a white dude who is more qualified than Bell or Kennedy or Ogletree and I’ll grant you a point. i’ve got nurses in my family, but none of them are qualified to be prez. well, actually, no that’s not true. all a person needs is to be born in the USA and to be over a certain age.
Who cares if Michele or Barack went to ivy league schools. They are both annoying, and that is what matters. No world leader will take them seriously. Weak.
yes, but mat, how did they look in the pool of Adams?
I hear you. In fact, we had encouraged my daughter to look at several women’s colleges precisely because we thought they might provide real benefits. Our experience with womens college graduates of our own generation and older was almost uniformly positive. We thought she should look into some of the Seven Sisters despite the ‘word on the street’ she was hearing that the schools were all heavily lesbian — even from alumnae. It wasn’t so much the fact of the pass that turned her off — though the particular grossness and insistence was pretty off-putting — but the reaction she got from other students that it was normal and to be expected on a regular basis. And, it was consistent with what she subsequently heard from a family friend on the faculty of one of the other Seven Sisters colleges.
Wade Boggs said: I hate people who talk about me in the turd person.
thank you, hillary.
I want a book deal. I want to sell the movie rights. And then i want to never do anything again.
Stuff Stomachs Playing Charades Like
Was that a BS degree?
but U of C is in the Ghetto. gunshots and sh!t.
Nubian? Isn’t that a breed of goat?
Stay there, you can be the village idiot they lost when G. W. Bush moved to D.C.
Whoo! Love for the ISU! I Screwed Up, too. I am very proud of everyone for demonstrating the notions put forth in the blog. Congrats, kids- we are white, so very, very white.
I give up, what is it?
Real funny. the subtlety in your sarcasm was just perfect it hit my funny bone with such panache
Just about every school has turned you down, huh?
Shut up and eat your salmon.
Yeah, I went to the Harvard of Southern Ontario, in CANADA! Never mind its nickname is “last chance U”….LOL!
This must be collage kiddies day, go get drunk or fucked or something, but get off the computer, dip shits.
That is unfortunate.
Hey let’s talk NASCAR.
fucking spelling freak
right on, dumb ass.
I heard that a national group was started for people who felt they were cheated out of an Ivy League education. I think they call themselves Poison Ivy.
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“school of hard knocks” I love it! I hear that so much. “yeah, I’ve learned things that they can’t teach you in any school”
…yeah, so have people who have degrees, but they have learned ‘life lessons’ AND have degrees, where does that leave you?
I love this post. As usual, LOL!
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That is the most concise definition of a college professor I have ever read.
i go to purdue. state school is the shiznittle bam. i’ll be walkin out of here next year with a BSEE, no student loans (survivin on pure scholarship and grants, man), and pure THC coursing through my veins.
why not private school? chyea. let me just shit out a few gold bricks here.
Intelligent comment and quotation. There’s a lot of “stuff” out there about SWPL matched to low-,middle-, and high-brow tastes for content, analysis and humor.
I LOL at the numerous comments herein that marvel, “I can’t believe it. I have a friend who says ‘X’ is the Harvard of_____.”
Of course “you” have a friend who says that. It’s a cliche.
But white people love to have friends who come from “old money”. When will we see a blog about this curious phenomenon?
or Harvard is the U of C of New England.
love the picture of Brown!
hrhkat, we are closer to this system than you imagine. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the white house all but voices the shrill claim that she is the rightful heir to her husband’s throne.
Interesting post….
Veereign
wildlunch, you are easily entertained. Can you name the primary colores? Can you count to ten on your fingers? Perhaps you are just easily bored and smarter than the rest of us combined!
But Allegheny County is not all of Western PA – far from it. Crawford, Mercer (home Grove City College, aka “GCC”/aka “God’s Country Club”), and Lawrence County all have fairly large Amish populations.
As for the Amish being why western PA’s not had a Latino surge, well, your point is well taken. The main reason for the lack of Latinos, however, remains that the area is an economic dead zone.
Does my always picking Times New Roman in MS Word mean that I’m a failed White Person, then?
So, I’m guessing that it’s o.k. to say you’ve been spurned by an Ivy League school if you got into MIT.
I’m for it, where do I sign?
Awesome. Can I be your understudy? Sounds like some big shoes to fill.
Well I got accepted to the two Ive League schools I bothered to apply to, but passed in order to go the the US Naval Academy and fight the commies! Take that, you rope-smoking hippies!
University of No Learning’s got that beat, and if not that, then the University of No Opportunity.
stormin to norman-
don’t. my house is worth more than you and your family.
Two plus two equals four no matter the school one attends.
That said, fuck Ivy League Schools.
They are for rich, snotty, elitists kids from rich, snotty elitists families.
I got a first class MS from a public college and nobody got it for me.
I am a proud member of a Sixties class at Vassar College — a founding member of the Seven Sisters. Finding a fella to marry from one of the Ivies or Little Three (Williams, Amherst or Wesleyan) was a fulltime occupation, altho’ classwork was an important diversion. Back then the Lesbians on campus were mostly sprinkled among the faculty, some departments having more than others, and large numbers of gay men were in the Drama Dept. They would usually head to NY on weekends.
Speaking of weekends. . . they were the best! If you were halfway decent looking and showed any interest in the opposite sex, you got to have your pick of guys from Yale, Princeton etc and could spend each weekend at a different campus enjoying frat/club life and great bands and lots of booze and sex (the Age of the Pill had just begun). The guys were often awesome looking and rich — think Ralph Lauren ads. Mostly they were gentlemanly and not too many rapes occurred. No meant no. Not many STDs to worry about, either, because people were still looked down on for screwing around with just anyone, and having sex with black guys from the hood just was not considered all that cool, altho I had a classmate who met Wilt Chamberlain on an airplane and he followed up with invitations to “date” her.
Things were quiet during the week, altho’ the infamous “road trips” from the men’s colleges brought guys out to the dorms where one of them might “know” a girl, who then would get her friends to go out to one of the many local bars, just like in the movie “Animal House.” Mainly, you got your work done and your hair stayed unwashed until Friday at noon, when you cleaned up and headed for the bus to New Haven or a pal who had a car, and off you went with your little suitcase, returning on Sunday afternoon.
When the schools like Vassar went co-ed in the 1970s, road trip life came to an end. The kids stayed put on their campus, not venturing out much. Also, the drinking age was raised to 21 and drugs became more prevalent. Frat life in the Ivies mostly ceased and women began supplanting men as the majority on most of these campuses.
I feel blessed that I got to participate in what was a mostly harmless rite of passage that these years provided, “the shortest, gladdest years of life,” as the Yale hymn used to say. And my 40 yr marriage to a Yalie and 2 great kids means that there was something essentially and fundamentally good about this Ivy League education where the high academic standards benefited society at large. When it became merely an entree into the high powered job market, it truly lost its soul.
penn is BARELY ivy.
ag, huh? in-state tuition with an ivy diploma. what’d you do with all that extra money?
at their summer home?
get it right – summer’s a verb.
hahahaha “does that mean he’s a televangelist preacher who rips off little old ladies on limited incomes?”
What purpose does that serve other than to attest to your immaturity? It’s nice to know that you feel the need to mock your peers in higher education for no reason except that you feel that they went to a ‘lesser’ school than yours. Keep it classy.
NB: Penn has a higher acceptance rate than Brown.
I agree. It’s disappointing, because I do like this blog, but it’s not that difficult to decide which words to capitalize and where to place commas; plus, it makes the entries so much more readable.
You forgot to tell us what to do when we encounter white people who actually DID go to an Ivy League school.
Kraut –
You said it brother. Being a Tufts alum I just had to search this comments forum for the word ‘Tufts’. I figured any forum about Ivy League schools would undoubtedly mention the school. And bam, there it was!
There’s a lot of insecurity there about it’s place amongst the Ivys. However, Tufts is known for many wonderful things besides Davis Sq, the funeral home and a stuffed pachyderm. Besides winning the first college football game ever held (against Harvard no less) and featuring Tasty Gourmet (I’m convinced Panera stole its Bacon Turkey Bravo!) it is also the prestigious alma mater for Elaine Bennis and nearly Tracy Chapman – but she dropped out (I’ll let others speculate on why. Some good reasons are listed in the very article).
I once stepped in a huge pile of dog shit. I didn’t realize it and I tracked it through my house, ruining multiple rugs and carpeting. I didn’t find out until I took my shoe off, getting dog shit all over my hand.
You suck way worse than that.
Truer words have never been spoken from a bitter, inferiority complex ridden, state school lackey.
I can’t even say you would work for me some day because I wouldn’t hire you.
I think it is funny people from Brown actually think their school carries any weight.
Brown is inferior to 90% of the schools in this country. It’s a joke among the Ivies and any other respectable institution.
Penn also has a higher acceptance rate among Corporate America and Wall Street institutions.
Also, we don’t consider brown students peers in higher education. We really don’t consider them at all.
Ogletree?
Lawyers really impress me about as much as romanian hookers.
Scratch that, I love romanian hookers.
So did anyone notice that there’s at least two black guys in the picture attached to this posting?
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I noticed that the picture you used is Brown’s lawn. By the way, what you forgot was the pecking order that exists within the Ivy League. Yale and Harvard, including Princeton fight it out all the time. Brown is considered too cool for Harvard or Yale, whereas Harvard is Harvard. What else do you say. Yale is Yale and Princeton is well… Princeton. However, Brown, Darthmouth, UPenn, Cornell, and Columbia all fit into this other category – they’re not Harvard, Yale nor Princeton… But it doesn’t matter. People still say… oh you went to Brown… Nobody cares and I don’t go around saying or shouting that I went to Brown. I got in but I had the grades, the AP classes, all that advanced stuff that makes people qualified. I also disagree of your last comment regarding affirmative action. I don’t owe an excuse to you, nor anyone else about my acceptance to Brown. In fact, I don’t need to explain how I got it. I just tell people who ask… “oh… wow… Brown… how did you get in?” You know what I tell them: “I applied.” In the back of my head, I’m thinking you idiot, how else would I have gotten in. I can’t notice that everyone that has asked me this question is white, and feel like I owe them some sort of explanation for my acceptance to an Ivy League university. Thank you sir, but I don’t.
I did my undergrad at a school that called itself the Harvard of the Midwest (and it’s not in Chicago), and my masters at the Harvard of the South.
Of course, I mockingly used those titles as often as possible.
Deep down you know you got in due to your status as a minority. You are actually bitter about it. It’s evident in your writing. You don’t owe people an explanation, they know how you got in. They just want to hear you say it.
That said, nobody says “wow” when you mention Brown. Brown fits into the “forgotten Ivy” category…with Dartmouth. But Dartmouth is actually a good school.
Interesting, I could have gone to a Ivy League school but had no interest. Something must be wrong with me.
Chelsea was not a Rhodes scholar.
Um, well, Penn has a business school and Brown doesn’t…. And that is hardly an accurate gauge of how good a school is overall: plenty of excellent LACs are only an arts & sciences college. I will gladly concede that Penn is better for studying business than Brown; I, for one, am grateful that most Brown students aren’t dead set on becoming the future CEOs, stock brokers, and investment bankers of America.
‘Also, we don’t consider brown students peers in higher education. We really don’t consider them at all.’ Exactly.
This is not entirely true. Williams and Amherst, via going loan-free and aggressive recruiting of minorities through programs like Questbridge, are now each around 30 percent minority plus an addition 7 percent international … and they certainly are not predominantly protestant (Jewish percentage between 12-20 percent …, and probably more Catholics than Protestants)
“i cant believe everyones debaiting”
Further case in point.
I went to the Harvard of the Midwest ie Washington University in Saint Louis
I went to community college and now I are a anchorman.
I just like ivy.
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hahaha hilarious and so, so true.
I call my local community college the Harvard on the Highway.
Oberlin! Ahahaha I can’t believe I knew that
Hell yeah, it is, but they’re working on changing that. They booted everyone from Cabrini Green and Robert Taylor, they can do it for U of C.
My husband got his PhD from Northwestern in 1986 and he said they were big on research.
Someone blow W. so we can impeach him.
Rat bastard.
I saw Barry Manilow at ND in 1980.
Indiana sucks.
Nono, Oberlin is the Juliard of Ohio
OMG I so walked into that! Very good, HRH! BRAVO!
No, I only created the glue used in Post-its. I can tell you the recipe, if you’d like.
I have a Joliet Junior College sweatshirt and people are like “huh?”
Then I tell them it’s the country’s first junior college and they’re impressed. For thirty seconds. And then they laugh.
/me likes large endowments.
Proving what, that a degree from a good school can’t give a man enough common sense to smell shit when he steps in it and to stop and remove his shoe before spreading it on the carpet, or that you have a lot of servants to clean up after you? I don’t get it.
Northwestern is just as good.
looks like you are graduating in ’11….you still have time to transfer.
Although, given your choice I’m guessing you didn’t get into any of the real Ivies.
Also, Penn sciences are top in the country, second maybe to Princeton as far as teaching hospital locally available.
Never met a Brown trained doctor.
Harvard is not an either/or–in addition to having professors who publish in journals, Harvard also has it share of excellent TEACHERS and small classes, but like any other school, from the big universities to the small “teaching-only” colleges, there will invariably be some instructors who are better than others.
My husband was a professor at ISU and won awards for being a student favorite and then they didn’t give him tenure, even though his students were actually learning (go figure). They’re the reason we had to move to WA.
I hate ISU. They can suck my balls (if I had any).
Remember what Tracy said: Louis Armstrong persevered through adversity and eventually walked on the moon.
Tolerant? No, we’re not tolerant. We don’t have the luxury of making that choice for ourselves. We’re told we have to be or we’re racist. So we’re obedient lemmings instead of who we really are for the sake of tolerance and for self-preservation.
EVD, blacks were slave-owners, too. When will blacks get theirs? That’s just the beginning…I could go on and on.
I like WASP, especially “Animal (I Fuck Like A Beast)”.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and attribute it to the fact that Brown, or any other college for that matter, doesn’t teach gallantry.
Touche, but my point is still valid unless more than one person in the family/car graduated from that particular school.
Wow! I’m sure that’s a sight: an Amish Latino. Do they spraypaint the sides of barns with beet juice?
Bill is, isn’t he?
Kris Kristofferson is! 🙂
Ivy League schools aren’t just a white people thing. I’ve grown up with large Asian and South Asian communities and they start prepping their kids for those schools at the age of 5, and brag to each other about what school their kid is going to. One Indian kid in 8th grade once asked me what he should major in. It saddens me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’m an English major. Guess what I do for a living?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I SO would have gotten into an Ivy League institution if I wasn’t white . . . I’m SO oppressed!
I always have to apologize for being a Cornell alum. People who didn’t go to an Ivy get all defensive (offensive?) – “oh, you must think you’re better than everyone else. Well, my school…blah blah blah.”
People who went to other Ivy League schools like Harvard or Yale explain to me that Cornell does not really belong in the Ivy League “because it’s a glorified ag school”.
Well, I can’t say one way or another whether it’s a truly great school or not, but dammit, we do make the best cheese!
my husband went to brown u., and he is white. no legacy. just determined, smart, and had a rich grandfather to pay the tuition. so, sometimes t
Ha-ha, Stalin Grad student. You’re just jealous because you have a pink-colored box, while mine has the blue-ish tint of a sharp, shiny blade and is in the shape of the Iron Cross.
Your name should be Mr. Pink, like Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs was Mr. Pink. How does that sound, Mr. Pink? Ha-ha, ha!!!
easy now, simpleton.
romy, you’re jealous. the lic. holders are fun things to put on your car. they ae also something to proud of. really, why do ”hate” them? who cares.
Right, spinachflame, the two black guys in the picture are affirmative action tokens.
did you laugh like this, “Ha. Ha. Say, BIff, did you see that sub-average Brown student? what a fool! I do say, Biff, I laugh at those sub- averages….” and then it goes on and on and on…. and then you do something really above average, like tell people how ”brilliant” you are (yawn) and then you realize you are so bored that you just stop and grow up. LITERALLY.
Astute criticism. The entry is written from the point of view of someone who went to an Ivy League school who must endure the ordeal of dealing with the impudence and pretensions of pathetic podunk losers who not only feel inferior and threatened but also – let’s face it- ARE inferior.
Like even I know that summer is totally not like such as a verb.
It’s like such as an adjective? Totes covered that in English for Makeup Majors 101. Golly must be one of those people who doesn’t have a map either.
Spoken like a true ass.
Yes you are.
And if they’d kerned the Helvetica more tightly it would be sooooo white.
I went to the Harvard of Angola…it was a hollowed out donkey
Yup, meritocracy is hawt these days!
i’ve really been disappointed in the past few entries. the quality of writing has seriously decreased recently, and the content has just not been funny. i’m reconsidering buying the book, clander. let’s get some up-to-par stuff on here.
After reading this post and its author’s glowing conclusion about the essential and fundamental goodness of “this Ivy League education where the high academic standards benefited society at large,” I’m totally astounded. Given the Ivy League/Seven Sisters’ history of racial segregation, how could “these institutions benefit society at large”?
A little background here, from “The Racial Integration of the Seven Sister Colleges,” by Linda M. Perkins. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 19 (Spring, 1998), pp. 104-108:
“Vassar College was the last of the Seven Sister colleges to knowingly admit African-American students. The first known black student at Vassar was Anita Florence Hemmings, from Boston. She enrolled in 1893 and graduated in 1897. A scandal erupted throughout New England when it was discovered that Hemmings, who was light-skinned and passed for white, was actually African American. … Vassar officials clearly felt that the presence of African-American women, even those with a slight tinge of black blood, would detract from the image it sought to project as an institution for the aristocratic and genteel women. In a 1932 issue of the Crisis, W.E.B. DuBois noted that ‘Vassar is the only first grade women’s college in the North which still refuses to admit Negroes. Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke held out long but finally surrendered, although Bryn Mawr still keeps its dormitories lily white.’ …
In the 1940s, only seven black women graduated from Vassar. For nearly 25 years after [1940], Vassar admitted no more than three African Americans in any given year. In some years, none were admitted. By 1960 only 23 African-Americans had graduated from Vassar.”
Historically speaking, what “society at large” have these institutions benefited? How many non-white, non-upper class folks participated in that frat/club life the author of this post so fondly remembers? My guess is none, they were all a bit afraid that their pure little white tribe would be contaminated by contact from social groups deemed inferior. I can’t make out what else the author means by associating STDs with “black guys from the hood” other than that her and her social class assume themselves to be superior to non-whites.
Now tell us again, what is it that was so “essentially and fundamentally good” about this Seven Sister/Ivy League education???
I go to Domino’s pizza college and that is the Phoenix University Online of fast food institutions.
If he is so smart, why not go to a good Ivy?
good school….def not getting people to think you are better than they are
it’s def. a lesser Ivy…not as bad as Brown. Cornell is still a very good school.
fricking hysterical.
http://www.go4ivy.com/ivy.asp
3% of americans get in and obtain college degrees.
uh oh.
funny as fucking hell. i’m on the floor right now… i
wonder how many people caught that shit.
are you still on as the world turns?
This is yet another elitist post from this blog.
It implies that people who go to Ivy League Schools (whatever that means) are indeed some kind of elite. Thus, those who dislike elitism, are just cry babies and actually have no point.
Please get cancer, kay?
neener neener.
and the black one on the left is the “athlete”
uh oh.
It’s not true that money and family connections won’t get you into the Grand Ecoles …. though I suppose it may depend on which one.
I once had a girlfriend who was a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure who attributed her matriculation to the influence of her family (a surname serious Frenchmen would recognize since the 18th century). She was bright enough, but not extraordinarily so.
Acquaintances who were graduates of the Ecole Polytechnique considered their Ecole more meritocratic.
silly,
she’s an old white woman who graduated from an ivy league
school. what in the world do you expect? hello?
people kill me when they are surprised to here pure racism
alive and well. racism and white supremacist thinking still exist behind a great vocabulary and an expensive “education.”
what surprises me is when folks are surprised…pay her no mind and you’ll live a long life.
No, there’s no implication they are better for having gone to an Ivy League School; the implication is they think they’re better. But I’ve seen what a real education is, and a degree (from anywhere) isn’t necessary. My old dad is an expert in his field (engineering) and he doesn’t have a degree–and he’s trained many a PhD in his craft, as they’d finish their education with no knowledge of real world design and application. It doesn’t take great intelligence to pass tests and write some things that please your professors. Some people learn what they need when they need it, pass it around to the others, and move right along–that’s intelligence.
If a person didn’t attend an Ivy League School, they could be white trash. I was a Yale man myself, and helped my classmate Sir John Forbes Kerry get free cars from Bob Brest, when John was just a Lt. gov of Mass. John has come along way from getting free cars for favors, the depravity of an Ivy league education.
First, Tufts, Emory, Tulane? Seriously? What are you smoking?
Northwestern is better than all those and I’d say equal to Harvard.
We’re the only school to have the most gorgeous LAKE …ON CAMPUS. I walk two blocks from my dorm room and bam! There’s Lake Michigan.
Plus, our entire enclosed campus is beautiful and Evanston is the perfect college town with Chicago just 20 minutes away.
More importantly, our women’s lacrosse team won the DIVISION 1 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2 years in a row- 2004/2005.
And our journalism school is ranked number ONE nationally- Medill School of Journalism, NU Law, Medicine and Kellogg Business are also top 10, with Kellogg Business in the top 5.
(Emory/Tulane/Tufts- med/law/business——> JOKE!)
Plus we have famous alumni that people have actually heard of:
Stephen Colbert- Colbert Report
David Scwimmer- Actor, “Friends”
Zach Braff- Actor, “Scrubs” and Director/Writer/Producer “Garden State”
Tony Parker’s (NBA player) brother was here 2 years ago.
Meryl Streep’s daughter, MAMIE- majored in theatre and graduated in ’05
tons more, don’t have time
“If a person didn’t attend an Ivy League School, they could be white trash.”
I say, if someone did not attend an Ivy League School they’re definitely everyone else but those who attended an Ivy League School. Everyone else includes Ice Cube–who is definitely not white trash, by any stretch of the imagination. Ice Cube used to attend a local high school near where I live, back when he was still Oshea Jackson. Oshea has come a long way from going to that high school, the insanity of an LAUSD education.
i’m honestly just commenting to see what my avatar looks like.
ew ugly, now i’m seeing my husband’s.
Northwestern blows chunks. I went to LA Pierce Community College, which at that time was rated #2 for women by Penthouse Magazine. I even had a 62 year old anthropology professor who had married and impregnated one of his [much younger] students! Take that, High Almighty Northwestern University. :p
Lol, great post!
http://stufflatinpeoplelike.com/
white people like subtly correcting your grammar!
Yep. All true. As a minority who graduated from **** (one from a middle class single-parent family no less), I find it best to keep quiet and let people prattle on to try and prove their superiority…especially older [insert non-minority ethnicity here] people. It’s the best thing for all parties involved.
Plus, it’s always annoying to get that dreaded look/question that most ask when you mention your alma mater, especially when you do something less than perfect…
“And YOU went to ****?”
Nobody really wants to believe that someone, much less a minority, may actually be smarter than them…or at least know how to take a test better.
It would blow their minds…
as is evidenced by your comments, i sense not only personal ego-deflation but a case of permanent penis-deflation.
I went to the Harvard of community college. Bucks County Community College, or Buck U for short.
You win. (No harm no foul)
Buck U is the Brown Of Southeastern PA community colleges, it can not even compare to the gold standard, the Harvard of SEPA Community Colleges the one and only Montco
no indians are more concerned about ivy leagues than whytes…i work with a real smate guy who went to il state..
I went to Harvard on the Highway. It was no big deal.
I’ve never heard of UC Longbeach.
actually, if you didn’t look at the monikers, i bet you’d be able to discern if the writer was male or female.
How can I present the ALM on my resume?
Harvard University offers the following degrees in Extension Studies:
Associate in Arts
Bachelor of Liberal Arts
Master of Liberal Arts
It is acceptable, therefore, to list the ALM degree on your resume in the following manner:
Harvard University, Master of Liberal Arts, concentration in history
Unacceptable: Harvard University, MA in History
It is acceptable, therefore, to list the ALM degree on your resume in the following manner:
Harvard University, Master of Liberal Arts, concentration in history
Unacceptable: Harvard University, MA in History
White people also like to call their school “The Harvard of the ”. Do not challenge this, it will ruin their confidence.
People can brag about Harvard all they want, but we all know it is is the Adelphi of Massachusetts.
Bill Richardson (current governor of New Mexico) is a Tufts graduate.
You are so correct.
Cinco de Mayo is becoming a huge holiday in the USA (at least in the Denver, Colorado part of it).
I think it is because:
1. The celebration is now always on a weekend and only occasionally on the 5th.
2. Everyone loves to party.
3. Mexicans living the USA have adopted it as “their” holiday even though they never heard of it while living in Mexico.
4. Corporations are putting big promotional money behind it because they “look supportive of minorities” while encouraging everyone to spend spend spend.
Hahahahhahahahahaha,
seriously, what race are you?
from my Azn perspective, I feel like u r Azn?
with all the references to Azn girls, Azn food, Azn educations (UCLA, UBC, Ivy Leagues: you know too much about this, which helped my confirmation)
Obviously, sorry if I am mistaken, but hahaha this is just my guess
Ok, ok, ok, there are only so many racist comments I can take at once.
1) Brown (the school I currently attend) has a large Jewish population. So do the rest of the Ivies. They’re not getting “pushed out,” especially at Brown, where Minority Admissions works diligently to make sure that every culture is represented.
2) My boyfriend is “foreign Indian born,” and his parents are worth about 5k a year, combined. He chose to go to Brown because its financial package was the highest out of all the schools he got accepted to, Ivies and non-Ivies alike.
3) “The Jews have assimilated”? That’s kind of ridiculous. Honestly, most Jewish people are considered to be white and therefore have white privilege… While Jewish people are certainly discriminated against in certain contexts, the word assimilation is probably not the best way to phrase this.
4) Ivy league schools are highly endowed corporations. They had better produce good students, or that’s a lot of wasted money. I’ve heard many complain about the funds that our University wastes on occasion (hell, I’ve done it myself), but as a whole I know I’m getting an excellent education.
I went to ivy league and then transferred to a small school on the west coast (couldn’t handle the attitude) and there was no difference in quality of education…just how down to earth the students were. At Cornell, everyone was full of themselves. I actually think i learned more at school in Washington because no one acted as if they had something to prove.
Who cares about the Ivy League when most fucktards celebs are fucking rich beyond their wildest dreams without stepping foot into a classroom!
Ivy League…what does it really mean at the end of the day when you’re a broke ass loser paying student loan debt for the next twenty years…
rayray: May you live long enough to be murdered by your slut puppy daughter and her boyfriend for making them listen to the “bands” that you loved in college and, of course, for the insurance money. Then you’ll be sorry…
Whoa wildcat- hold on a second. I graduated from Villanova (’03) and never once saw any guys wearing boat shoes (p.s. they’re called docker’s or sperry’s). No one had a trust fund either and I think I only saw a pink polo once. Do you even go to Nova? It sounds like you’re describing Vanderbilt. Nova is in the same league as Georgetown, Notre Dame and Boston College and has been the number one Master’s University in the Northeast for over 10 years now. It’s not an ivy (and people get real- there are only 8 ives total and if your school isn’t on the list, then it’s not an “ivy”) but it has amazing professors, a gorgeous campus and a solid alumni network. A lot of different types of kids matric there, esp now since the new president took over. Check your facts ‘cat.
Clander: A few good ghost writers wouldn’t hurt either.
At its best the satire is mediocre.
White people want to be Ivy leaguers so bad they went ahead and found 25 new schools to call “Ivy League”
http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401
ya…UCLA is JUST as good as Harvard 😉
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i worked in the admissions office at harvard medical school…quite a few of the students who were accepted got there because they were “legacy” students….in other words, they had direct relatives that went there before them…many others got in because they’re parents paid to get them in…how else do you explain the billion dollar endowment harvard has?
Cato: Lesbians are fine people, you just don’t want your daughter to marry one.
In this context, “homo” means “same.” For example “homogeneous” means “of the same type or kind” and therefore “homosexual” means “same sex [ sexual attraction/relations].”
at villanofun. that school blows you fags.
“I cant believe everyones debaiting whether their schools were the harvard of the whatever”
Despite the atrocious grammer and spelling, she’s got a point. This “me too” festival about where you went to school is totally fucking retarded. and very incredibly white.
not if you’re a dude.
actually, wait… dudes, …. ummm… need lesbian experiences too. so, yes.
Tulane. Is in. New Orleans.
FTW
Amish furniture tends to be made by something other than a machine.
wp love theorizing about the amish, because they kind of view them as a people in a bubble that you still get to prod and laugh at.
You know, David Foster Wallace taught at ISU for a while, and white people love him. I went to school in Decatur, IL for a few years (university will go unnamed) and since it was a small private liberal arts university, it was referred to in the literature as part of the “Ivies of the Midwest.” Anyone who has been to Decatur (Soy Capital of America) will laugh at that. Then I got a degree from a CSU that could be called the “Harvard of Wine Country” or “that school that Orange County parents send their dumb, over-indulged Laguna Beach wanna-be, LA scenester kids to, because it’s safe and white.” Or something like that.
your favorite….? what?
being a native North Carolinian, i can predict with 82% certainty that the people trying to convince you about Furman were total asshats.
if by “zen” you mean “pathetically desparate for attention and obsessed with second-guessing”, I agree.
Let’s get all 4 of you in a room and you can have a every-man-for-himself penis-lightsaber war. Oh wait, too late.
Your insightful comment has led me to reconsider the basic premises on which I live my life. The air smells sweeter, and the bread and water taste better. I will forever tell my children of the “Fake Butter” who turned my life around with the tales of Southern Ontario. They will tell their children after I have gone, and you will live forever in our hearts.
if you’d like to successfully transition from “status-obsessed yuppie” to “status-obsessed geek yuppie”, YES.
We get it. Brown sucks. Go masturbate elsewhere.
I’m betting that last sentence appears in “Behind the Music: Ice Cube”
It’s been an ongoing joke for years that Universities put out 100 alcoholics for every degreed professional.
Meaning they’ll get “set up” for a life of debt servitude for the hundreds of thousands of dollars dumped into their Womyn’s Studies Degree?
Up until this point I’ve found most of your comments to be pretty interesting, and I must say I’m fairly impressed by your ability to link the MRS. Degree with Christian schools – I genuinely mean this. Honest. But comparing Messiah to Liberty is almost like comparing Liberty to Bob Jones – they are not the same. Being disgruntled about Monica Goodling does not make you an authority on the school she went to nor does it make Monica Goodling the representative of the typical Messiah graduate. Perhaps more importantly – not all of us are there for a spouse… and even more so, Messiah is typically liberal – a good chunk of its staff and students – pure stuffwhitepeoplelike.com gold.
Also, it’s called a vagina. Calling it “her inner thighs” – does that mean you are a conservative, homeschooled Christian who attended Messiah College looking for that special lady fulfilling her MRS. Degree?
(I’m hoping you can find the humor in this. Its not a personal attack- honest – it just frustrates me when people try to bust on a good school for reasons that really have nothing to do with the education available there. As a Messiah student, I can definitely find the humor in recognizing that there is a portion who go there for marriage and babies… but theres a lot more to it than that. And, perhaps I’m snotty, but we are not Liberty. Absolutely not Liberty. That is just offensive.)
: )
Good work dodging the bitch Sallie Mae
Here’s the math:
1/2 of Ivies are already non-White, due to affirm action, “Diversity” programs, leftist anti-White hatreds in the admisssions process, and Asian high IQs.
Out of the other 50% of “Whites”, half of them (or maybe 60%) are jews, not Whites.
So Whites are about 25% of the Ivy League schools they founded.
Columbus is funny!
Black PhD’s in the physical sciences and math in the USA are STATISTICALLY NEGLIGIBLE. Look it up.
For God’s sake, go somewhere more interesting that Evanston.
Waste of prime years of one’s youth.
Michigan is overrun with jews. Ugh.
Isn’t it Rice?
Fascinating article for white people about why White nationalists like Obama:
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/05/is_worse_better.php
I think it’s the opposite. Cinco de mayo peaked about 10 years ago
Most Whites aren’t interested in partying with illegals or for their culture. It’s waned considerably.
For the record, the event celebrates the battle against a whopping 6,000 French troops during the middle of the US Civil War where some 600,000 Whites died.
One of the most interesting comments I’ve read on this site.
Latinos are chasing the Blacks out of South Central and almost all of LA.
There are high schools, formerly all-black, that have turned in less than a decade’s time
Latinos hate Blacks, and they won’t ever be as tolerant or generous as the Whites have been.
That’s why blacks are leaving CA.
Not that old canard and propaganda again. FALSE!
Jewlane? LOL!!!!
Rice tops Tulane and you know it.
Whites that date and marry sshould spend more time thinking about what their first-born son is going to come out looking like.
What a way to ruin a fine last name.
The Ivies are 50% non-White due to antiwhite racism and the “diversity” agenda.
The “whites” are actually 1/2 jews, leaving true Whites at about 25% of the Ivy schools they created.
Whites better wake up and shed the white-guilt BS they have been fed.
Would anyone here go to a black surgeon? Knowing what we all do about affirm action and diversity agendas?
Interest in cinco de mayo is waning fast. Whites are choosing not to celebrate the foreign holiday after see the illegals’ May Day rallies and their other racist bullshit.
Cite the source of your statistics, my racist friend.
Excellent post. I bet the girls are pretty there too.
Good looking college women aren’t as ubiquitous as they once were.
Evanston is totally boring and a “dry” town. Lake Michigan in fall/winter/spring is far windier and colder than even a North Sea oil platform.
I didn’t know Cornell was Ivy.
It’s kinda like a Colgate to non Easterners.
I could care less about some chink that went to an Ivy. They still know they aren’t White and immigrated to a White nation and attended a White school. That sounds like some form of asian self-hate.
jewish supremacism is more prevalent than white. Don’t you read the newspapers?
The USA is nothing more than a proxy for Israel.
The war is between jews and Iran, israel and iran, the US is just the proxy.
Fool.
Good post!!
David Brooks is a neocon jew. Anyone would be stupid to waste their time with anything he says, since it can all be distilled into:
domestic liberalism, Wilsonian interventionism, and do what’s good for israel.
Good post.
PS This Lander fellow is delusional and clueless, which is actually a trait of many Whites these days.
He claimed that “San Francisco” was White, when it’s majority Asian and they own all the property rented to the fool liberal white loser transients there.
Quiet!! Don’t tell the jews or anyone else. As with anything started by Whites, it attracts the non-whites, and then the original attraction of the place diminishes, sometimes gone forever. Look at what is happening to Palm Beach County, FL…the Hamptons too. All ruined by jews and other non-whites.
BS propaganda
Jews are semites, and therefore not Whites. They have not assimilated, otherwise the Israel and Jewish Lobbies would not exist. They would have intermarried with all the rest of the Whites (polish, english, german, irish, italian, etc.) and have become White-americans. But alas, JEWS are Jews and always will be, so that totally disproves “assimilation”.
PS The “diversity” agenda and Minority Admisssions, affirm action, etc. ONLY affects WHITE PEOPLE.
These terms are code for “less Whites”– and they never, ever mean “less Jews” which once again proves that the jews are not White.
The Ivies prove this.
Junker: when you see a non-White, non-Asian Ivy grad, you should be thinking: “affirm action loser, who screwed a White kid out of his merited spot”.
That’s the truth of the admissions games they play to create the false “diversity”, since everyone self-segregates once there anyway.
*grammar
multi-minute rant? lol, there’s a steak in there somewhere…
In my old California family, only the kids who couldn’t get into Stanford or Cal were sent to SC.
Lets just match up LSU’s and USC’s track team accomplishments, shall we?
LSU Track & Field National Championships:
Mens outdoor – 4
Mens indoor – 2
Womens outdoor – 13
Womens indoor – 11
USC Mens & Womens Track & Field National Championships combined: 0.0
—————————————————–
LSU BCS National Championships: 2
USC BCS National Championships: 1
The pac-10 is the gay cousin of the mountain west and big sky conferences. no wonder you douchebags cling to the rose bowl so tightly, you would have no chance against the SEC in a playoff.
here’s a concept for everyone. White kids can get in because of ‘legacy’. Why not let blacks kids in because of the ‘legacy’ of what Joe so aptly describes. I like the semantic simplicity of that.
This post was weak compared to the others. Although, while typing this I am afraid of making grammatical mistakes.
exactly
I went to Case Western Reserve University, the Harvard of the Midwest!
Easier admission reqs at Northwestern??? Hmmmmm, I grew up in Chicago and remember when Northwestern only let in a minimum of minorities (read Jews, Catholics, African Americans, Asians, etc.) and they had to be in the middle of their HS class – They didn’t want any minority stars on campus!
What?
WTF does IceCube have to do with that Turds remarks about Yale?
Flaunting an affiliation with Ice Cube is still better than flaunting a relationship with John Kerry.
@ this post – so true!
btw @ the Cornell alum/student JB. Praising its cheese doesn’t help your argument of how CU isn’t a lesser ivy. The Ag school does very much bring CU down (look at those horrific ag students – most have never even been outside of NY state >.< ), and the ILR school isn’t far behind.
Engr, A&S (esp their english dept), AAP’s Arch. are the university’s hallmarks.
–a lifelong vegan CU alum.
I wouldn’t worry. Its a blog, online – not a piece of crucial correspondence.
Well, if Ross from friends went there it must be a good school.
You’re a rube.
NW has great graduate schools. Undergrad is average.
It’s true. I do have a hard time imagining minorities are smarter than me.
I’ll say maybe 25% of the minorities in the Ivies are smarter than some of the whites. The rest just checked the right box on their applications.
I am of course excluding asians and indians.
May be true, but it was a bad decision in the long run. Can’t deny the power of the Ivy name, except maybe Brown.
I went to ivy league. If you did not, enjoy the view from back there, losers.
Didnt George Bush go to Yale too?
Wow…they will let anyone in that place now …..
The problem is yours, it’s called inferiority complex. This is cured by getting over it. And, it some cases the disease of wild imagination will have the same symptoms.
Believe me, there are several ‘hoods in Canada. Sure there is no media coverage of it in the U.S. (clearly you’ve bought into the stereotype of rinks and polar bears) but take a stroll through the East Side of Vancouver or Toronto’s Jane and Finch area. These places, thanks to lots of American guns and gangs, are starting to rival U.S. ‘hoods.
As to the actual OP, brilliant as always. This “Harvard of the North” B.S. from places like McGill has always turned my stomach. There is virtually no comparison (student quality, financing, resources, history, etc.) between Ivy Schools and any of these “Harvards of the __________”. A few years ago SUNY Binghampton and other had the stones to call themselves “public Ivys” – talk about conflict of interest/oxymoronic/pathetic/brandstealing! The very mission of these institutions is in direct conflict with what Ivys do…
I went to Yale and I would neva say that. My, my.
You are right about those aggressive lesbians. After all, during my four years of college I never once encountered an aggressive male student. Best to stay away from those horny lesbians and stick with gentle male college students.
Really? Vassar invented racial discrimination, keeping it going in the vacuum of a color neutral society all by itself, oh maybe with a little help from “her sisters” right on up until, when? When you were hatched? That’s cool.
Benefit to society? Only if educated people leading an unassuming life is of any benefit. My god, maybe her kids are too. Pretty boring to contemplate.
Or does “benefit to society” only come when you get a job at a non-profit where your title is “Benefit to Society” and your salary is enough to pay your rent, while Daddy pays the rest.
And now that white girls aren’t afraid of the opprobrium of sleeping with blacks, you’ll have your chance to research STD rates amongst the different social classes. Or were social classes retired as old fashioned just before you were born, also?
MIT is not officially an Ivy League.
HA! Freaking epic comment. Funnier than the original post.
~The Wrong Kind of White Person
BWAHAHAHA!
the cover looks good man
I don’t know about this one…I can think of a lot of white people that this just doesn’t apply for at all. The only white people I can think would give a shit about the ivy league are those kids from high school who the biggest overachievers, everyone else just goes to state schools and says fuck it.
i went to Columbia the Harvard of Manhattan lol
Way back in these comments on the Ivy League I put in my two cents’ worth and received some deserved criticism on comments re: boys in the hood and STDs. Basically, that was gibberish and I apologize to anyone reading who was offended. Those comments did nothing to advance my argument that there are some redeeming qualities inherent in the Ivy League or in any solid liberal arts’ education that improve the lot of mankind in general. The old fashioned notion of noblesse oblige (I can’t get my underline to work here) was drummed into all of us students back in the Sixties, that to whom much is given, much is expected and so forth. We were very proud, regardless of political affiliation, that Jackie Kennedy was a Vassar alumna — even tho’ she did not graduate. There are tons of other alums, some famous, most not, who have contributed to the well-being of society.
Having lived all over the US, it is one of the neat things to discover when you move into a new town, that there will possibly be other alums with whom you have something in common; also, there is a good chance that these folks will be involved in interesting and productive work, as professionals or as volunteers. You know, stuff like good schools, hospitals, symphony orchestras and art museums — the little frills that make life worth living.
One criticism received above was that Vassar had very few African American students in its history. Well, either did any other of the schools included in this discussion. I believe WEB DuBois (supra comment) was one of Harvard’s first black graduates, and Harvard has been around since 1636, with many of its graduates leading the anti-slavery cause. The founder of Brown was a Quaker RI slavetrader, who probably hauled opium, too, and today the very successful President of Brown is a black woman. It wasn’t until 1961 that Duke U. accepted blacks in their student body. Etc.
Vassar was founded as a college for women on the order of Yale and Harvard, not as the outgrowth of a seminary, like Mt. Holyoke was. The college opened as the Civil War was raging and the founder (a brewer) knew he had to get support from all over the country, North and South, for his “Magnificent Enterprise” to gain any traction. Matthew Vassar had to convince men, the fathers of the girls he hoped would enter his college, that their daughters were as worthy of receiving a college education as were their sons. Remember, Vassar was in existence for nearly sixty yrs before women got the right to vote! It’s kind of unfair to blame it, or any of the aforementioned institutions, for adhering to what was considered “correct thinking” in its day. Think about it. If a school’s standards were not up to the highest level, it would not have attracted the support of that day’s elite and would have collapsed rapidly as an institution. Unfortunately most blacks were mired in poverty during this time and it is unrealistic to impute institutional “racism” as the reason for schools of higher learning not to have more students from other racial backgrounds enrolled. By the way, in the 19th c. many graduates of Vassar and Smith went to the South and established schools to educate disadvanted black and white children, holding their pupils to the highest standards, enabling them to rise to a higher station in life through their own achievement.
It is vital that students at these schools today recognize the sacrifices and hard work endured by past generations and refuse to accept watered-down BS (not Bachelor of Science) courses of study, instead of undertaking a rigorous academic workload with high standards applied equally to all that used to exist before the 1960s. Earning a baccalaureate degree should mean something, and not just signal the outlay of over $100,000 as a sort of status symbol, like a new Mercedes or a Rolex watch. That is why this tradition of the love of learning for its own sake, the passing on from generation to generation of an intellectual torch, has established a certain elite who recognize each other as fellows on life’s uncertain journey. While money (or the hope of future earnings potential) enables this work to go forward, it cannot be the only reason to justify the Ivies’ continued existence and desirability.
you need to do an entry on Jam Bands! White people LOVE bands like Phish, String Cheese Incident, etc!
First, my apologies to rayray for my mean spirited reply, cruel and not funny (though I thought so at the time).
Yankeegirl does not deserve the unprovoked attacks on her gentle, articulate reminiscences of her social life at Vassar 40+ years ago. Why become so snotty with a lady who simply informs us of what actually took place at a time and place that meant so much to her and others of her generation? Perhaps if we read her informed account we can learn something valuable about the past without getting in the writer’s face with our own irrelevant passions about “race and class’ which enjoy the privilege of hindsight.
Certainly Yankeegirl succumbs to the harmless bias inherent in fond memories of one’s own day in the sun that her life and times were simpler, safer, more civilized and joyful than what kids have to face today but perhaps there is some truth as well as downsides to this bias. For the most part, she offers the reader a cogent and charming portrait of a life which has been decent, productive and rewarding.
One of the great illusions of our lives is that we are living right up to the minute when in the twinkling of an eye, we find ourselves living in someone else’s past.
I HATE YOU TUCC!!!
zing!
Yes and the Dave Mathews Band.
do white people like duckies or eggs?
http://whichcamefirsttheduckieortheegg.com
Judging by the recent output of Ivy League schools I’d be impressed if many of the students in those schools could pass the admission tests & interviews… OTOH, they’ve gotta be getting in there somehow!
No need for statistics, they can prove anything, just walk around on ANY Ivy League campus.
This site should be renamed “Stuff White Liberal Elitists Like”.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
I was born in America, therefore I’m a native American. My sister was born in Germany. Is she a native German?
Hey now… I went to Harvard on the Hocking in Ohio. It’s a legitimate fake Ivy League school. I’m offended.
-D
http://profileofadipshit.wordpress.com/
That’s because MIT is worth going to.
You all can keep repeating that until you believe it, but think back if you are old enough, or go ask your parents, or go view pictures of those years when US culture was staunchly Eastern establishment-WASP, and come back and tell me we weren’t a better people then.
Such a majority surely deserved more grateful minorities.
Just relax
I went to the University of Phoenix of the Ivies.
God, that is so true. Not only that, but their parents get to brag about how their son went to such-and-such college and is thus the smartest person ever. “Well, he should know he did go to Harvard!” Nevermind that they go to special classes and hire their own private college advisors to get into these schools in the first place. BTW, Yankeegirl is a douche.
I got my GED (barely) and paid my way through CC as a pimp. Weak works for me. Stay off the internetubes Weak, or you’re fired. And get me an ice water, damnit. Three cubes. Stat.
W went to Yale then, not now. Back then the Ivy League was the prefect hole for draft dodgers to drop in to. “Now” it is different.
Welcome to the 21st century, Hal.
“Way back in these comments on the Ivy League I put in my two cents’ worth and received some deserved criticism on comments re: boys in the hood and STDs. Basically, that was gibberish and I apologize to anyone reading who was offended.”
No need to apologize. We were a better people when the culture was proudly and prominently Eastern establishment/Anglo-Saxon and everybody knows it.
People can recite the slogans of diversity and multiculturalism all they want. But the reality is that the post-modern experiment of nationhood without nationality is a time-limited one, and it’s time is running out.
Have you ever thought about including roof racks on tops of cars on things white people like?
… ITS time is running out.
To to the annoying girl who’s so proud of Brown, my sister went there and no one outside of the East Coast even knows what or where it is. Occasionally someone knows and seems to approve, but it is very rare.
yeah, why in the world is bill bradley holding up a yale sweatshirt?
go tigers!!!!
no one cares about your comments either.
Your husband must be fucking miserable.
Upon further criticism I’d like to ramble on a bit more.
As I mentioned, having lived all over the US, it is one of the neat things to discover when you move into a new town, that there will possibly be some huge cocks I have not had the privilege of having shoved in one of my orifices; also, there is a good chance that these folks will be up for one of my extra special rim jobs. You know, stuff like prostate massage, hot lunches, dirty sanchezes and rusty trombones— the little frills that make life worth living.
Outside of my hobby as a flaccid sack of ex housewife, I enjoy the above activities. I also have a sickness and believe people value what I say and somehow, outside of self asphyxiation, enrich their lives. If I wasn’t on such huge amounts of valium and meth I would certainly take time to pause and kill myself, like my husband wishes I would. Instead, I’m going to show him my pontificating post and he is going to drink half a bottle of single malt and think about banging his secretary….and the babysitter…and the cleaning lady….and probably some crack whore, all who are more interesting than I am.
I’m a pro jazz/pop singer (30 years experience) in a large city and have found that just about EVERYONE is obsessed over having some type of high profile education..as if it affirms their existence.
Jazz is an intellectual pursuit many musicians feel, rightly so,…..(HOWEVER..We all know Billy Holiday studied at Yale…:^) so please keep your mind open..)
Just the other night I was gigging with this African American female bassist and she grilled me thoroughly before I even sang a note. Where did I attend college? For how long? Did I finish my degree?????
WELL, my dear! SHE HAS A DEGREE AND TEACHES at so and so and she lectures at so and so …blahblahblah…It was almost pathetic how much affirmation she craved.
I told her, “Honey, this is a pizza parlor. We’re getting paid a hundred bucks. Get over it.”
Certainly more Ivy than your school, bub
I thought Carleton was the Harvard of the Midwest. At least that’s what the pitched to me, lo those many yrears ago.
No, but you ARE shortsighted.
What? Too many words. Community college grad. No read so much. Work Target. Manager. You want shoes? Where porn at? Heh, heh, heh!
There is nothing wrong with the Jam. There are still alive, aren’t they? Of course, everyone knows dave matthews sucks like a crack whore a week behind on her fix. I don’t see him too often on TV, but the sight of him makes me want to chuck a brick at the screen.
We like to kick ducks like a football and leave eggs in the microwave at AM PM and 7-11.
i just went to that website and read it, and it was so true.
i loved the part about how white people are the only people expected to look beyond race. bravo, very good, if only people read that 5 months ago
Doug Son of Doug: Time is not running out; it is just marching on and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
no, the amish latinos wear wife beaters, with collars, while having horses pull an old monte carlo.
i probably wouldnt go to a black surgeon because they have large hands, and large hands in my body isnt a good thing.
I actually dont really care if the surgeon was black, white or indian, i would care most about how many successful surgerys they have….
Wow, as a Carleton guy, this pretty much sums me up.
Damn damn!
dont tell me your an administrative assistant! that would be too funny. my sister was an english major, and she was an administrative assistant because thats basically all they had for english majors, where you can actually make good money. lmao
As one who has been justly pilloried for pontification in these posts, I must give full credit to the guy hiding behind Yankeegirl’s skirts for a superbly written albeit obscene parody. If Clander were half as hilarious as this I would buy his book and extra copies for appropriate friends and family members. (In any event I wish Clander success with sales of his book). Hope “Yankeegirl” gets a book deal too though most publishers would shy away from printing something with such a raunchy edge however brilliant. Now excuse me while I go kill myself. Keep on keeping it light and funny. ’nuff said.
well, she probably wouldnt have done a bad job, god knows anything is better then bush. and women leaders are usually very good looking back at history.
but come on brangelina in white house, actually, lets scrap the white house all together, its kind of outdated and not very palace like, im thinking we should make the new royal house at Builtmore, its very large and has tons of carvings and gilt work. I could just see little maddox and pax playing in the grand hall…
I could totally get into throwing huge parties that would help with achieving a title…
While I don’t have time to address fully all the points raised in this post, I will disagree with the general idea of the post that the Ivies and other elite educational institutions have ultimately benefited society as a whole.
I don’t doubt that the notion of noblesse oblige (underline) was drummed into students’ heads at these schools, as it still is being done today in many ways. This noblesse oblige assumption underlies the belief in the fundamental and essential good of these institutions. The notion assumes that an educational and class elite is necessary for the good of society — while it avoids the implication that such a system lives upon inequality, an inequality that in American society has always been fundamentally violent.
happyjack knows wp! I love duke lax!
SGS,
In a sense I agree: secular democracy has only one inevitable outcome. However, it does not also follow from this that white America must perforce commit cultural and demographic suicide.
Please tell me this is a misspelled reference to the excellent Alfonso Ribeiro.
Ha!
why is that funnY? it just is.
You are no Yale man. I would wager maybe some sort of southern rebel, dangerous and inbred. Good day you filth.
Guys, guys, guys…Jesus…
…was JEWISH!
What are these weird snow flake things next to every post? Some sort of reference to blotter acid. I invited Tim Leary to a nude in he was quite strange but was up for the wargasm.
“Wheaton College is the Harvard of Christian Schools” – heard someone say this phrase last week.
Sometimes it scares me that I’m white.
I chose colleges according to their near proximity to freeway off-ramps.
Sadly, no. It’s a mangling of my real name.
Oh Alfonso, why did you fade into obscurity?
I think you are off on this one (which is rare). The dream for “white people” is to attend an exclusive small liberal arts college where they can read and discuss the classics in an intimate setting. Ivy League is for the minorities.
Hehehe very funny and very true!
valleygirl71.blogspot.com
HAHAHHHA
Best musical ever.
What?! Minorities should be more grateful because they had no part of the picture perfect society about which you speak?
You should be grateful you weren’t a minority, I think, is what you meant to say.
Stalin Grad Student,
The portrait is certainly cute but the implication that sleeping with colored boys meant you were at a higher risk for contracting STD’s and the outright statement that rape wasn’t a problem…? PLEASE. This idiot of a yank needs to pull her head out of her ass long enough to GET REAL.
It’s disgusting that in 2008, people are still making such ignorant, hurtful, RACIST comments.
I think that is kind of the idea, what with the constant references in comments to these cliches applying “to the right type of white people and not all white people. This site is not redneck humor, it targets the same people who read it who in turn willingly mock themselves and their friends. It is not trying to represent “the white race” as a whole, it’d be damn hard to stereotype 80% of the US plus white Canadians all at once and still be funny. Very few people want to read someone say white people like “car culture” and “consumerism”. That may be social and cultural commentary, but it is not comedy. The inanity and often frivolousness of the interests of the “white people” depicted by this site are funny to many of its “liberal white elitist” targets in a self-mocking way that makes them feel “in” on the joke. It is not real written for “non-white” people as a guide to interacting with “white people”, that is part of the joke.
I have not laughed harder in weeks than when I read this.
Doug,
Whenever I read your disgusting would-be-a-slave-owner-if-it-were-legal comments, I get really angry.
And then I think about the joints I roll out of the pages of the bible and I feel better. I think I’ll light up right now–to celebrate secular democracy.
oh give it a rest. i was just at dinner with fellow students who think that penn is a joke. no one can accurately judge which is better unless they went to one school and transferred.
Anyone can attend a Historically Black Colleges of Universities. They are not 100% black. And let’s not pretend, that AA’s could attend non-HBCUs when these schools were founded. So what are you really complaining about?
You know, I read the whole “Harvard of the ______” line in the article. Being a Binghamton Alum, I thought to myself “Man, reminds me of the self-aggrandizing PR Bing used to do.” I read the comments thread and sure enough, it’s one of the first institutions mentioned in reference to it. Wish I could say I was surprised.
At the time of that post there were ~600 comments you could have chosen to respond to. Why did you choose that one?
I can’t figure this out.
this blog used to be one of my favorites and it was hilarious but now it’s going down the drain… the ivy thing is kind of true but it seems like you’ve run out of things to say. and white people in the news – those posts are really annoying and make me want to stop reading this. just thought i would tell you
Race differences in intelligence exist, necessitating the need for affirmative action. Read Malloy’s infamous defense of Watson here.
Violence is as American as cherry pie, no?
You sir, are a complete moron, a piece of degenerate shit that needs to be wiped off of society’s collective shoe. I hope you and your racist clansmen fail to impregnate a human woman so that your sorry genes will die along with you. Your talk of agendas and fear of jews sounds just like the same old lunatic right-wing conspiracy theory. “Oh nooo! the liberal media, protect your kids, they’ll turn ’em gay on ya.” I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you get all your news from Rush and the other bigots on right-wing radio and your daily reading is confined to the back of a cereal box.
Good day.
Bravo, Middlebury!! Nicely done.
Choose one of these two blowback-filled things your parents convinced you to do:
1. Become an international recording star, both beloved and hated by millions.
2. Become President of the United States, both beloved and hated by millions.
He lives on…. on YouTube. There is a really kickass commercial for his instructional book / record / dance mat set.
Dude, you can’t be serious with that race differences in intelligence exist crap. John Smith? Yea right, pick a more generic name next time why don’t you.
Switching topics. I just found my new favorite StuffWhitePeopleHate rip off. ThingsWhitePeopleHate.com Pretty crude humor and not as thoughtful as the posts on this site but they do have some funny ones and are pretty short so make for a quick read. Another one that is pretty funny is StuffEBPLike.com…I think it is supposed to stand for StuffEducatedBlackPeople like, but I haven’t been in a while so could be off by a word on that one.
Funny how one site’s success breeds so many others.
Huh so that’s why I’m working so hard to get into an ivy league. Because I’m white. That and the whole trying to please parents so that when I decide to rebel it has that extra shock factor of oh no our good little girl has gone so very wrong! I think it adds a little something don’t you? Eh whatever but I’m half Mexican too sooooo what does that mean? I really don’t care though. I’ve wanted to go to Harvard since i was like 10 I dragged my mom there on a trip to Boston and then flipped over the fact i saw a Harvard squirrel… then we were stalked by crazy birds and i started to think looking into yale would’t be so bad. Good times good times. God i love this blog i spend far too much time on it though….
So close but… The REAL Harvard of Partying is Camp Arizona State U.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read (the above comment ).
First, you agreed with the opposite of what the guy said.
Second, your understanding of admissions and race is laughable.
Why can nobody spell Berkeley?
If getting a respectable education were all about the job you can get and the money you can make when you’re “done”, you’d be right. Unfortunately, you’re wrong.
Oh the things you’ve missed while busy being a loser.
Wrong.
Berkeley.
Class of 2009–that means you’ll be around long enough to see what I mean.
Do you really believe when we need money we can just print it?
Do you really believe people are going to pledge their loyalties to public schooling and the universal franchise over the pre-State institutions of Tribe and Faith?
Do you really believe Third World immigrants and the descendants of slaves can’t wait to bail out white people’s social democratic schemes?
Stupid white person.
“Dude, you can’t be serious with that race differences in intelligence exist crap.”
Measured for IQ, Ashkenazi Jews and various Asian subgroups bulge towards the right of the bell shaped curve. Anglo-Europeans bulge along the middle. Mestizos and Africans trend towards the left. This does not mean there is no such thing as a Ph.D. from Africa; it just means that as a group, their distribution is not as deep along the right side of the curve. Geneticists are already tracking differences in brain structure between speakers of tonal languages and speakers of atonal languages, and this sort of research is piling up faster than it can be suppressed.
Don’t believe everything the Ivy League teaches you.
Vanderbilt — the Harvard of the South!!!
Class of 1999, B.A. Latin American & Iberian Studies
Gotta love this post! I have a T-Shirt I got in college with the Harvard crest on it that says “HARVARD — THE VANDERBILT OF THE NORTH”
I like that one much better!
Nice major. You will come out of Vanderbilt absolutely useless. You could get your PhD in Latin American & Iberian Studies and become a professor. Then you can perpetuate the needless drain on the environment you, your classmates and colleagues pose to the world.
I love how at the end of each of the blogs the moral of the story is:
white people are insecure as all hell and are on a power trip because of it
lol, it’s so damn true
The moral of the story, which Mr. Lander underscores so brilliantly, is that whites are too obsessed over status games with other whites to defend their group interests.
Other groups are not.
Tulane is so the Harvard of the South! How dare you imply otherwise. snicker, snicker, snicker. Although, come to think of it, we’re more fun, have better weather, have better burgers (Port of Call vs. Mr. Bartleys (?)) and can hold our liquor. Maybe Harvard is the Tulane of the North??
Being the genetic offspring of slavic and nordic peoples who rarely see the sunlight I would have to say that my skin tone is much closer to pink than white. My applications have always been enormous fabrications concerning my education as I decided to ride the rails to Mexico during the 80’s. Good day.
I went to the Hardvard of Stillwater, OK. It was by far the best university in the region.
Boy, those sure are 3 good reasons to go to Tulane! 😉
New Orleans was a humid cesspool even before Katrina…
Amherst is no more white and preppy than any top school, Eli.
Love the line about only getting in because of minority status — classic. This is the ultimate fail-safe that lets white people preserve their sense of self in this circumstance, whether they admit it or not.
Cartoons here: http://spinachflame.wordpress.com/
Well, I guess there’s a finite list of things that white people like since they usually like what other white people like and usually aren’t terribly creative.
I agree, White People in the News is not that interesting. But I do like the other posts!
If a white person HAS gone to an ivy league school, there is an 85% chance they will mention it within the first five minutes of conversation. Particulary if the school was Harvard. If you want to annoy this person, you should totally ignore the reference and start talking about American Idol.
So, you’re one of those people who spend over a hundred grand just to be able to put extra letters after your name.
In certain circles, that gives you bragging rights, especially at dinner parties (#90).
I don’t travel in those circles anymore than I have to. There’s only so much pretentiousness I can take in any given day.
Are you the type who never leaves the campus? Because no matter how you try to justify it, all you’re really doing is delaying the inevitable (and destroying your liver).
But if your parents are willing to indulge you, it’s their money.
Evanston is basically Chicago, dumbass. A great place to come into one’s own.
This is ridiculous. While they are not as dextrous or agile as laxers – to say that football players aren’t atheletes is preposterous.
Let’s be honest here- WashU is clearly the Harvard of the Midwest. St. Louis is in need of an attraction like that so much more than Chicago.
No no no, You are the one missing the joke!
The joke is that WHITE people are the ones who ASSUME that minorities get into Ivy League schools only because of their minority status and that’s the reason that they, the white, person didn’t get in.
You are way to easy to offend. Chill.
Yale’ 10
Jewish does not distinguish between black and white. yes, European Jews are white, but Ethiopian Jews are black; thus……(you can guess the conclusion)
LOL. oh this one was good. And very true. AND should be on SEBPL as well! Like so many other things, Ivy-league lust has seeped into all of the “communities.” All the school comparing is soooo gross and snooty, but I soooo do it! its more fun at parties than pirate jokes! Elitism: it’s not just for White folks anymore! =)
Oh, and CLander. could you please write a blog about how white people love to ruin perfectly good blog entries with off-topic comments, bitter comments, and of course the racist ones! I did not know about the book deal but I can’t wait to read it, so i can have fun reading quirky humor and not have dumb comments below from people who turn everything into politics and race.
God Forbid someone actually comment on THE BLOG in the comment section!!! lol
You have a valid point, however that is why we have ties, scarves, stickers on our cars, etc. with the logo of our school. Keeps it right in your face, and if you like you can mention the logo item, and we will regal you with our years at U.
Tell us of your other half, I served a mission myself in Laos.
Hmm i don’t think he’s off. I mean, yeah Pitzer and Sarah Lawrence have their fans, but if we are going to make generalizations… which is what this whole thing is about… then I’d say that living the dream for white people looks a little something like this….
1) be the kid in high school who was cool but didn’t try to hard but got B’s because he was in touch with the universal essence of truth
2) Get a perfect SAT score the morning after getting high with friends
3) Go to Harvard on scholarship that your family doesn’t need
4) start out pre-med or pre-law then switch to anthroplogy and gender studies during sophomore year
5) Have a moral epiphany during a summer trip back=packing through Europe and drop out of Harvard to gather fair trade coffee beans in Venezuelan country side
6) move back to the states after 4 years & marry a former french actress you meet at a independent film festival
7) Be rich …not from your families money but from your hobby as a commissioned oil painter/ collage artist
8) last but not least. You speak of your days at the elite harvard..that YOU DID GET INTO…as the days of your foolish youth
but you still went to harvard, and you mention it at dinner parties, over your organic tofu crepes!
That my friends… is why White people are so great!!! LMAO
“Class of 2009–that means you’ll be around long enough to see what I mean.”
OH NO DSoD,
I hope the cancer of hate that has eaten your sanity and consumed your soul hasn’t spread to your mortal body!
How much we’d all miss your nuggets of Klan wisdom!!! I mean, without you, the world may really spin out of control… stuff might happen like civil rights, or integration. And there would be no one left to embarrass other white people but the republican party and Carrot Top!!! lol
But if you do have to leave us early, perhaps it would be for the best. With all the stats and quotes you like to point out, you’re probably aware your “majority” status is on its way out. And when your great great grandchildren… who will be at LEAST half-black, part latino, and checking the “other” box …visit your cemetery plot, their genuine acceptance of the people around them will still allow them to lay flowers on your grave…instead of spitting on it the way you would have spit on them.
Stupid person.
i ment csu longbeach…..its a party school
I go to Brown for free, because my parents make $50,000 a year. The ivy’s have come a long way in encouraging economic diversity. I was also accepted into Columbia and Cornell. I have met many ivy students in similar positions as me. These places truly are accessible to anybody with enough motivation.
But where did he go to school?
Yeah, Blue-Eyed Columbus is actually just upset because they are watching all of the intelligent Black kids in the ivy league from their dorm room at OSU. Sorry you weren’t good enough, Lemme guess, your school is the Harvard of the Midwest?
haha, so Amy didn’t read the bible. Clearly states Jesus had copper skin and hair like wool. I can’t think of any white people who look like that, can you? Well, I won’t ask you because obviously you can’t think in general.
Blue Eyed tard, please go buy a scarf and eat some jello to make your boring white-bread self more useful. Have to put down Blacks because you’re so pathetic? Even the Klan wouldn’t accept you.
They all followed Berea College in Kentucky, which ironically, calls itself the “Harvard of the South”
Well if white people hadn’t been oppressing and raping every group of living things on this planet since forever, maybe they wouldn’t have to defend themselves all the time. Just a thought
I like when people pull bullshit statistics out of their asses. Not one HBCU has a 99% Black population. Moreover, these schools have the same or higher standards than some Ivy Leagues. Moreover, these schools are in existence because good old whitey had “white-schools” they just weren’t called that. Someone make a post about how white people pretend to be culturally intellectual, while constantly bitching about Affirmative Action, how Slavery ended 150 years ago–so supposedly racism did too, and how they are too afraid to actually spew their bullshit to the faces of African Americans.
Makes me absolutely sick.
They aren’t being discriminated against. Do you realize that before affirmative action, minorities COULD NOT get into the schools on the basis of race. Name one school that denies white kids! You would be lying through your teeth (or in this case, your keyboard) if you argued that! If there wasn’t affirmative action, all white kids, even the stupid ones, would get in over Blacks, it’s just a fact. If you can prove that less qualified African Americans are getting into schools, like tangibly point out some black kid with horrendous grades and no extra curricular activities beating out some valedictorian white kid who was on every team and club at their school, then I will shut up. However, you can’t, so take your misinformed racism elsewhere.
same in california, where I live, david!!the mexicans think it’s pretty funny..
Interesting article I found here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=476244&in_page_id=1965&in_page_id=1965&expand=true#StartComments
Why blue-eyed boys (and girls) are so brilliant
The colour of your eyes could determine your achievements in life, say scientists.
They claim those with blue eyes are more likely to sparkle academically than those with brown.
but I’m half Mexican too sooooo what does that mean?
Wetback.
Bliss, I went to Pierce too, but you’re making me look bad. STOP COMMENTING.
I went to a San Fernando Valley LAUSD school too, but I can still stay on topic without bringing Ice Cube into it. You must not have been an AP student.
Me too. It’s all pretty on old buildings and things.
As the shirts sold at the Roddick Gates every September remind us all, Harvard is America’s McGill.
And my degree complete a with lap cost less than one year at pretty much any US private school, Ivy or not.
Dear Christian,
Sorry to be away for so long. I was in Hollywood eating sushi and doing museums with my 20 something White children who live there. I am from the sticks in Down East Maine.
Anyway, what a wonderful coming home present… The Ivy League. Here is my little bit on those schools….it’s not the university that counts, it’s the school, unit or department whatever.
Take me for example Cornell *hotel*; Penn *Wharton MBA*
These are best of show university/school combinations and all they ever did for me was make everything easy, wonderfully possible and well within reach. It’s a secret handshake. I was gobsmacked when I realized the absolute power I had from those two degrees. It’s a joke. But I had a family to support and helicopters to charter.
Warm personal regards,
Digby
PS. The jacket cover is so light in color. Maybe too much so.
oh shit son! too true.
Wow! And we learn the proper use of the word “retarded” in college? Look what I learnt ma!
Sorry, I didn’t read the umpteen zillion comments in this thread.
The basic pretext is spot on. (I am myself a Harvard graduate, but not a very typical one.) The typical Harvard graduate simply does not recognize the existence of beings who did not attend an Ivy League college, and the only ones that they are willing (tentatively) to consider on a par with themselves are graduates of Princeton or Yale. Graduates of lesser schools (i.e. Cornell,Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, or Penn) will have to live with the fact that, although they have attended the Ivy League, they are simply not perfect enough to be on the same level. If you did not attend one of these schools, then you don’t actually exist, in the mind of the typical Harvard graduate. Oh, they’ll deal with you (particularly the lawyers and sons of politicians), but only the way a human would deal with a dog. Just remember, we’re smarter than you, and of course that’s all that matters in the world.
/sarcasm for the moment. I think it would be hard to find a more elitist and snobbish group of people than Harvard graduates. Yale graduates, for what little I’ve actually seen of them, are just about as bad. I might be persuaded that Princeton graduates are a bit better than that, but I’ve been disillusioned many times in my life, so that could well be overoptimistic.
sure anyone can “attend” a black college, otherise it would be illegal, but other races dont attend them, because they would probably stand out like a big thorn in the side of black students.
There is a reason that black students attend black schools, same as white students attending mostly if not all white schools, so they can be around people like them. Black people who attend black colleges identify with the way the black teachers there teach. they understand eachother, their struggles, their beliefs, etc.
Black people, out of any other race, make is a point to be different than anyone else. Sure, their are some that try to be like everyone else, aka oprah, and obama. but the majority of the population, like to stick to where they are comfortable, and thats with other black people. its not a bad thing, but it can seriously hurt anyone in life, who doesnt experience different people/cultures/religions etc.
Im sure you can say the same for some white people, but the majority of whites experience different people, cultures and religions. except for maybe WASPS, but they are dying fast.
I just read a line that says “white people out of any other race, are expected to look beyond race”
yes white people in the past have done many atrosities, but why should white people living now, have to apologize? are all arab muslims apologizing for a couple of them being terrorists? no. Are all black people appologizing for committing the most crime in america? no. Then why should white people appologize for all the crimes bush and his kronys have commited? well this will be interesting to see what happens when obama is president, makes a mistake, and then see who appologizes for it. Nobody can blame the white man for that, but im sure obama will have lots of whites in his administration, then i guess everyone can blame them.
Black people are gambling hard on obama, if he succeeds it will help the black community beyond extent, but if he fails, or fails to live up to expectations, the black community, and faith in the black community will be tragically weakened.
I really do hope he exceeds, but i have a feeling he is a gilded overly ripe pear, who will just rot from the inside, but the outside will still appear to be perfect.
It is hilarious how many people take this blog post so seriously that they feel the need to post long, often irate comments with an edge of social criticism in order to demonstrate that they know far more about the world than anybody else cruising into their cyberspace.
It is hilarious because they think by refuting somebody’s assumptions, they are contributing a unique idea and standing for their beliefs in a context where not more than five people will stop and read their unique comment in a comment page that will require 100+ pages to print.
Give it up, man. The fact that you want to debate… on a blog called “Stuff White People Like”… suggests that you are, if nothing else, a very annoying white person. Quick giving the rest of us white people a bad name.
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No, no. suz is right. One ‘preps’ at a prepschool rather than ‘attends’ or ‘goes to’ and one ‘summers’ in Maine or on Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard or Block Island.
I agree haha, this place starts to lose it’s humor with all of the people that can’t take a joke. They try to make it like war zone to defend white peoples honor. Lighten up and laugh a little.
http://www.culturallycool.com
I don’t want to sound ignorant but do they teach cultural awareness in Ivy League schools?
http://culturallycool.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/culturallycool-what-does-it-mean/
When I went to Vassar, , the Clinging Ivy, it was extra cool to mutter, when asked where you went to college, “Poughkeepsie.” Partly because that town has been described as the sort of town that had too many shops selling trusses and artificial limbs. My daughter went me one better, attending both Vassar and Barnard/Columbia. I’m not sure what she admits to.
We are totally White, though. Witness: http://claudiassurfcity.blogspot.com/2008/05/whats-in-truck-ii.html
So, do you and all the other “poors” have your own awareness group?
I bet you do. Gag.
Humorless weirdos.
Your self-deprecation seems employed to advertise your incredibly smart family. Congratulations, by the way. You guys wield the power of Greyskull.
This is dead on! I went to what we like to call “The Harvard of Northern Arizona.” The older part of campus actually has turn of the century red sandstone buildings and yes, IVY covered walls!
The architechture of the rest of the campus can only be described as “Neo-Stalinist,” however.
This whole blog is entertaing, hysterically funny and wonderful; but I am conflicted. I have read all 98 posts and am very confused, too. Even though I have white skin and white parents, I don’t partake or even like the activities this blog attributes to white people. Does this make me non-white? Perhaps the authors should provide a checklist to help readers determine if they are, in fact, white. From reading this blog, I’m beginning to think I belong to a distinct ethnic group in this country: Non-White White People, or NWWP for short. I am also beginning to think that this group is MUCH larger than we know and growing in numbers all the time, especially since white people started off-shoring decent paying working class jobs.
more subjects:
wu-tang clan, “urban culture” (straight from the suburbs), “wiggers” (Europeans that are ‘euro-wiggers’ are even more hilarious: “american black music is so cool!”), depreciating white people (ie being down with it: “haha, you listen to the Top Gun soundtrack, that’s so white!”, ‘you might be a redneck if’), being carbon neutral despite flying a lot and expanding their horizons, how copyright protection sucks, hilary/obama, how republicans suck because they are white, becoming an expatriate and getting a low paid job and talking about how much you hate where you were from (despite secretly wanting to move back because you miss such and such), being a white canadian and telling about the superiority of everything from canada.
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I’m just guessing, but I bet you have blue eyes.
She sure is and depending on what year she was born there, she may be a nazi.
My world seems so insignificant. Have you done anything else that I can only dream about?
And, he didn’t make his bid for the presidential nomination. That spells loser.
I have heard on the world market that rice is in short supply,
Good thing I went to Duke. The Duke of the South. We don’t worry too much about Ivy league schools and graduates, they’re too fixated with each other to see Dukies passing them.
Thanks guys,
Well Off Dukie
Right! Blonde jokes are totally unfounded. Blondes have far higher IQ’s than black and mestizo women, most of whom are grossly obese in America.
Jazz music is always on the fringe, and likely won’t stand the test of time, and it will always be on the fringe henceforth.
Not many jazz clubs can even survive in the most urbane US cities these days.
Jazz is for poseurs. Who else likes listening to music played off-key?
Yalie: Jesus rejected judaism and so did St. Paul.
They disowned the corrupt, racist screeds of the money-changers and high priests (forerunners to today’s zionists).
Evanston is not Chicago. And stop kidding yourself. NU students don’t “get in their cars” to drive all the way to White parts of Chicago just to drink beer in the dead of winter.
Chicago is not a college town at all. Even DePaul students are below the radar and they live right there.
Evanston is boring.
I don’t recall ever seeing on an application, “Please check this box if you are Jewish.” Sorry. The way the box system for race is set up, you can check off if you are Native American, African American or Other Black, Hispanic, Asian, Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Caucasian, or Other. Other lets you put in whatever you want, so if you feel the urge to say you are Jewish, that’s fine, but it’s generally categorized under Caucasian racially.
“4) start out pre-med or pre-law then switch to anthroplogy and gender studies during sophomore year
5) Have a moral epiphany during a summer trip back=packing through Europe and drop out of Harvard to gather fair trade coffee beans in Venezuelan country side”
This is great material for the book!
I don’t think anyone would suggest Leonardo Da Vinci was dumb. He had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Might it have something to do with black people (by and large) being violent gangsta sociopaths who attack in groups (see Jena Six) who aren’t afraid to go to jail because they’ll be surrounded by their “bruthas”? And then Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will bitch in the streets until the “white justice system” completely capitulates to negro demands? Oh right that’s a “stereotype”…..If negroes didn’t use violence to intimidate and silence opposition you’d hear a lot more from whites believe me.
When the majority population of any given land mass is white, then by extension those universities will be “white” that’s common sense, evidently something lost on you Mr. Farrakhan. Black whining and whitey scapegoating makes 99% of humanity sick, Rev. Wright…when are you gonna see that and grow up?
Yes they could…they were just stupid. If a school embraces affirmative action, then by extension they are denying white kids, even if it’s done subtly.
Without affirmative action, black people would have to compete on an equal level with whites (and we subconsciously know they can’t do that, don’t we comrade?). Asians were detained in concentration camps during WWII and yet they don’t need to bitch about the past or receive a handout in order to succeed…because they are by and large INTELLIGENT and don’t have to drudge up a half baked conspiracy theory about whitey keeping them down. Same with Russians/Eastern Bloc folks who went through 80+ years of Soviet repression and REAL slavery but still don’t make excuses for themselves. Having separate water fountains and entrances in restaurants is no excuse for genetic inferiority and innate stupidity…blacks are by and large born that way. Fortunately rioting in the streets with Jesse Jackson agitprop, beating up cops and whining incessantly is adequate overcompensation for a lack of intelligence, isn’t it? A quota to exalt morons, thugs, gangstas, promiscuous nobodies on an (manufactured) equal level with whites…how nice. If blacks were as smart as you insist they are, they wouldn’t need affirmative action to begin with. Period. End of argument. Rely on all the cognitive dissonance you want..
*sniff* What a bitter malcontent you are…The little comrade lashing out at “white societal racism” all the while implying that all whites alive are somehow guilty of “oppressing and raping” people and should assume responsibility…but with all the blacks currently in prison serving sentences for rape and ACTUALLY oppressing people in THIS LIFETIME, my guess is this is just a projection coming from a little hoodrat awaiting sentencing. At least they’ll have internet where you’ll stay (at least I hope they do, how else will you be able to troll? I mean your life will cease to have meaning, which sucks considering you’re a negro Ivy Leaguer and all…hahaha yeah right.
The Daily Mail story did not deal with gender or hair color and intelligence. I think if you had a blonde with brown eyes and a brunette with blue eyes (male or female) the blue eyes would excel further academically. Stephen Fry’s mother is of Austrian-Jewish heritage. If there is a scientific observation that shows a link between hair and intelligence I’d love to see it.
What if I went to the “UCLA of the Southeast”?
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Man I was at Yale, and got lots of guff for having pieces of eggs and toast in my beard, yeah there was also a piece of vagina in there, but what are you gonna do dude. I studied humanities, so glad I got a trust fund, now I volunteer for Obama.
Do you really intend to suggest that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama or any other number of blacks who attend and attended Harvard and the other Ivy League schools are/were not academically qualified to be there?
Or are you just disgruntled because you weren’t good enough to gain an admissions interview?
Response:
The poor minorities and poor whites who attend Ivy League schools are bright and qualified academically. However they are the few. How many middle classed white kids get to attend? Very few unless they are exceptional, either academically or athletically. They number fewer than the minority enrollment or foreign students whose countries pay their way.
I feel that MIT is under-represented in this discussion, so I just wanted to point out that I went to MIT of the midwest. It’s way better than the Harvard of the Midwest or the Harvard of the Northeast. In fact, it’s even better than the Caltech of the south or the Princeton of the Midwest. Just a reminder that there are other good schools out there…
well I’ll get educated at the most univyest part of the ivys. what a relief.
Humboldt State is the Harvard of the . . . uh . . . what was the question?
come on…you dont have to take it to that. this whole website is becoming some sort of propaganda arena for all sorts of hateful comments. i mean i deffinately assosiate myself with alot of the articles on this site and i do think alot of this is funny, but its appeal is becoming much smaller due to the obvious results its bringing out of people. This is causing such a huge gap between cultures and peoples acceptance of eachother and ultimately i understand the need to have a seperate identity and social distinctions within our surroundings. but this almost makes it taboo for lets say a black person to oh lets say knit a scarf or eat sushi? now what the fuck is that? dont demean an activity just because you dont participate in it, and what…would you rather the white kkk to be the preminant white society around?
just…dont take this shit too seriously too seriously, and dont use the internet to blurt out your ignorance and think your smart for doing so.
peace.
Pretty funny stuff. My college was definitely not even the Ivy League of the Northwest, but it was fun!
http://www.itwouldbescary.com
For some reason a lot of people think the school I went to is Ivy League. I love telling them that it’s not, but that I probably got an equivalent education for next to nothing since it’s a state school and I had good scholarships. Yeah, I’m pretty damn white…
Yes bushie was a yale man as was I. I studied the rich and bagged myself a big fat rich widow. I wanna be somebody someday.
He said most blacks and that does not apply to the Obamas. Barack is an elegant guy, that is why I will vote for him, his wife is his problem, she looks kind of fat and may end up look like more of a servant of the white house.
This site should be renamed ‘people too stupid to comprehend/conceive of the author’s satirical targets’.
You’re embarrassing NAU. One lumberjack to another: if you don’t get it, just let it go, and you’ll save some dignity.
Oh, Yeah that’s right! I forgot, freedom of speech means that even “the wrong kind of white people” have their say.
Since when did they give you power to remove the status of “white” from Jews my Neo-Nazi friend?
Actually sauerkraut, everyone that applies to an Ivy League schools gets an interview. Its part of the Common Ivy Statement . Maybe you were the exception. Ouch.
wtf? ouch? are you retarded, jason?
I’m at yale, and I didnt have an interview. Plenty of other people didnt either. If you want one you can have one at the school, and if there are alumni in the area, they’ll set you up an interview.
But regardless of where you obtained your info, you obviously don’t have first-hand experience. So stop trying to sound smart.
Alright. Yes, some schools admitted black persons before affirmative action, but by and large there was a culture of exclusion keeping qualified African Americans out. There is not enough space to chronicle the historical and, that is to say, documented, effects of slavery and jim crow, but beyond that there is the undocumented – that which you won’t read about in history books, nor is quantifiable by statistics. To suggest that the intellectual, economic, and physical repression of African Americans is reducible to a conspiracy theory is ludicrous, and smacks of insidious revisionist history. Moreover, the assertion that Asians, eastern bloc Russians, Indians, etc., are, by nature and as a whole, more INTELLIGENT than African Americans as a whole, is again, misinformed. i would encourage you to consider that the brightest of the eastern bloc soviets; the professors, scientists,etc., found there way out of the country before the wall, same with the Indians, Asians etc. (do you wonder why they have such high levels of success) Perhaps you never considered the uncounted and unwashed millions that remain at home- the underachieving, the miscreants, the imbeciles. Your brand of “white ” ( a term, i might add, is a social and cultural construction) supremacy is thinly veiled, but maybe I’m giving you too much credit, perhaps you think you are being fair.
In the vein of fairness, however, i do not deny that there are high levels of ignorance, victimhood, and myriad other problems plaguing African Americans, but the pathology of these ills is outside the scope of natural intelligence.
Agreed.
Great Post!
How about Ivy League students making a difference in the developing world $10 at a time:
http://www.internationalhf.org or http://www.internationalhf.org/page.php?53
keep up the great writing!
Oh please. As if Penn is better…the school that constantly gets confused with Penn State.
Playa Hatin’ Degree? L.A. County Jail gives out the most of those per year (google it)
American born PhD’s in the physical sciences and math are negligible period. Black people are 10% of population so all things being equal 10% of a negligible number is what? More negligible.
We may not have our own BET or our own Ebony, but at least we have our own blog!
Ivy League is what we all want to be a part of but none of us can get into.
Good post!
Move over harvard… case western is here!
Slammin social scene!
not all white people are rich dumbass, but yea i also hate rich people.
Jews are semites, like Arabs, therefore they aren’t White or European.
Furthermore, it is the jews themselves that tell us they are different, that they are a minority group. You cannot be a minority and White simultaneously.
Maria, are you an anti-White bigot? You sound like one.
Blacks only get into the Ivy league because of “diversity” initiatives, and anti-White activists in the admissions office.
Ha! What do we have here?
A “Denier”! In Canada, denying and falsifying the truth and hard facts about racial issues can land you in jail.
Shut up loser.
Have you or anyone in your family gone to a black affirm action surgeon?
I thought not.
larrydavid: just another untruthful bigot.
People in admissions know jewish names.
“Diversity” is code for less Whites, but never less jews.
Get real.
shut up Carl
What are you the resident anti-White-bigot censor? Move along.
Pot meet kettle
because it broadens the number of applicants they receive and thus gives them a better selection of students… a college’s reputation is built on the success of their students after graduating and the more students you have to gamble that on, and the more competition those prospective students have, the better the chances for the college to have that.
google cooper union.
You must hang around fucktards….and have a huge inflated ego surrounding a giant inferiority complex.
and i’m guessing you went to Swarthmore….a liberal dingleberry in a shitbowl of wannabe Ivies
Evanston students are too good for the El now?
I’d add Bucknell, Lehigh, and Lafayette to that list. PA doin’ it’s best to keep it cracker-y.
You guys gave the world Jim Rome. Well done.
Being able to lecture others on the “best” translation of Hegel or Nietszche is WP gold. Being able to lecture others on how no translation will ever measure up becuase one must read them in the original German to fully understand them is WP platinum.
That’s a very broad generalization to make. None of the people I’ve met from Harvard are snobbish at all; I think it’s because they’re not insecure. In fact, they’re surprisingly down to earth given the stereotype. But put them in a room with non-Ivy Leaguers and invariably you’ll get someone who puts Harvard down without any provocation from the Harvard graduate.
White people also like low profile but very good small colleges like Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona, and the like.
btw, is anyone here planning to buy this book? I think I’d like to at least thumb through it, but there are many other books I’d get before this one.
Not giving a crap about Neechee or Hege is white trash possum bait, and we likes us sum possem. Yee hah! 😉
“You cannot be a minority and White simultaneously.”
Hm, but I’m gay and white… so that destroys your theory.
OK, Mister Negativity, what have you done that’s so great. Have you done anything creative at all, hmmmm? Maybe if you’re so hot you should do something great, like have a blog and stuff. I mean at least this dude’s trying. Who else has a rilly great blog and stuff? He can write too. Can your right? I sure kant. I meen, I doant think I have enough branze to make a blog or anything great like that. It takes so much brainz to do this and stuff. It’s so totally awesome that sumone can make a blog and have all these genius critics knock it and still keep going. ROCK ON MAN! MAKE ANUTHER BLAWG FOR ALL THE PEEEPLES! WE WILL AWL BI YOR BOOOK! WEE KNEAD MOR BEWKS AND BLAHGS! WOO HOO!
You went to school in Kingston?
LOL! good one!!
Off topic..
If I put the presale book on my wishlist, do the Amazon recommedations qualify as stuff white people like?
(Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought)
Paragraph 6, Sentence 1: “If you actually went to an Ivy League school, you will been seen as a threat so prepare for a lot of questions from white people.”
Corrected version: “If you actually went to an Ivy League school, you will be seen as a threat so prepare for a lot of questions from white people.”
Good observations, though.
Your daughter got hit on at Wellesley? Is she hot?
Man, thats what I love about the Seven Sisters, they are all hot, bisexual, and smart enough to balance (oops, rebalance, as the Smithie sitting next to me just pointed out) Also check out the grammer post.
Actually, joking aside they are not all bisexual. Of the three Smithies I have slept with, only one did three ways with me, the other two were more “bi-curious”
your grammar is incorrect. I should be
“smarter than they . . . “
Deidre: Minority status is based on race, not sexual practice.
The liberal jew’s wet dream: Every White boy packing fudge and every White girl carrying a mulatto child!
RE affirmative action and the ivies:
when i was at yale, i was pretty friggin impressed with just about everyone, as far as being qualified to be there. black or white or whatever else. brilliant people, overachievers, you name it. everything i read about the admissions backed that up: even legacy– children of alumni– had only a 26% chance of getting accepted (double the 13% overall the year i got in). That was the most unfairness i saw, but those kids, while often rich white douchebags, were certainly all solid students.
To add some icing on the affirmative action cake, i (jewish/semi-white) got my first job out of college through a black classmate who started working at that company first. Small world.
Your comment is a shining example of quotaism at its finest.
Are you mad that a brown person took the place that was ‘intended’ for you at your dream Ivy? I’m so sorry for you.
Hmmmmm actually, I’m kinda mad that you get didn’t attend “Un-named Ivy” University with me– where were you to bring down the curve in Orgo (thats O-r-g-a-n-i-c C-h-e-m-i-s-t-r-y, dumb ass)?
At least Brown grads aren’t half-retarded lifelong business monkeys who get their jobs through their frat connections.
LOL
So true, especially the comment about “Harvard of the “. I attend the University of Michigan and we have shirts that “Harvard: The Michigan of the East”. Kind of different but same idea.
university of sydney (australia) is the HARVARD
of awesomeness.
surf all day, skull (drink) all night.
wahooo!
A lesser goy, a true mediocrite, who had the Jewish network to support his mumbling was Jack Kerouac. A ruggedly handsome Canadian American, the recipient of a football scholarship to Columbia, he was the perfect goy face to make such Beat Generation messengers as Ginsburg palatable. Burroughs, of course, wasn’t Jewish. But he was a homosexual heroine junky and Kerouac served to make him acceptable. All in all, Kerouac was a flunky for the Frankfurt School, and The Beats were phenomenal only as social-retards used to discredit the authoritarian and repressive Aryan family with Nazi prototypes, supposedly, wearing the pants in the 1950’s.
Kerouac died a drunken oaf. A thoroughly bloated shill sleeping on this mother’s couch. It’s rumored that he was a bigot in the end. Unfortunately, “racism” is not a part of his mystique that’s taught in school.
I’m getting my PhD at Northwestern, but I live with all the hipsters in Lincoln Park…so I consider myself a resident of Chicago (and I get to ride my fixed-gear bike to work every day, +10 white points).
Northwestern is definitely on the up an up even though the undergrads are still a bunch of wealthy stupid people. It’ll be top 5 in less than 10 years.
Hey…Cornell is as down as Brown is…and we drink more
of course a lot of minorities (hispanic/black) DO have legit credit to be there, but there are also a sizable number of minorities who are often are the lowest ranking students, but since they happen to be first generation college students, professors & departments cut them slack…… since they fufill the quotas set for minorities….
(as a cu half asian alumna)
I’d limit that to williams, swarthmore and amherst. oh, and wesleyan (rather than pomona) – great schools.
The moment you have ppl trying to link together the top LACs as the smaller ivies, the prestige of the lacs are immediately compromised & their value lessened.
I hope you want Obama to succeed; we already have a president who exceeded.
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Are you saying the Cline Library isn’t representative of Neo-Stalinist architecture? What pass for windows on this monstrosity look ominously like rifle slits. You put 9 old Russian guys on the roof, a few tanks in the street below and VOILA, you’ve got Red Square, circa May 1st, 1971!
You may know by now that I didn’t do very well at Yale, as a matter of fact Bush had better grades. I did learn the most important lesson of the Ivy league. I will share here with you filth. Ready here it is…DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I love saying that to you lesser types. Use it in good health. JFK
I’m half-white, and I didn’t go to Harvard because it was much too expensive for me. Now I attend what some people call the “Harvard of Canada”, which I think is a ridiculous appelation. I do love the tuition rate here, though.
The Goat would like to thank Christian for naming him as the inspiration for this post.
While we all can’t go to an Ivy League school, let’s remember, we all can beat up smart kids, regardless of your alma mater. That’s something we can all be proud of.
That being said, I’m still better than all of you.
Getting goativated,
~G…
(Brown c/o ’02)
I have never been into Kerouac. I don’t really care what he had to say. I just find this little tidbit of information you present very funny. It’s interesting that this should make me giggle a little. The concept of one of the poster children for whatever he was supposed to represent dying a drunken bigot on mom’s couch is great. Wow, someone should write a song about it or create a painting or poem or something.
How nice. Now the truth: Wanna find out if two schools are of the same caliber? Look at how professors from those schools interact.
When profs from school A openly treat the profs from B with contempt or — as though their work is automatically suspect — you can be sure that school A is more prestigious and better (at research) than school B. And in general, public schools pay less than private schools and so attract better people.
That’s why all this talk about Michigan, Northwestern, Wash U, Brown, Notre Dame all being “just as good” as Harvard is crap. Pure bull. Yeah, I know Brown is in the League. And they suck and we all know it.
If these schools were as great as they claim, their profs wouldn’t turn into meek little lambs when confronted by profs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Yale, or JHU. (Berkeley seems to exist in a netherworld — respected by some but disdained by others.)
Now these are all fine schools; but, don’t pull my dick claiming your school has just as much prestige and research chops. If that were so, you’d have concrete evidence. Instead, you have a t-shirt. Slow clap for the irony.
P.S. Find my two errors (one grammar, the other an unclear construction) and you win another degree from your local state school, sponsored by Cottonelle.
Except those of us who went to one of the other seven Ivies. But we love you because you are ours.
It is not possible for me to give less of a shit about the Ivy League, and my skin is white as it comes.
Check your stats moron, when it comes to pure academic output, and little matters such as Nobel and Turing awards I believe the Ivy League schools have little but ancient glory. As for business, sure they’re great for having stupid rich kids network. How else would George W be our president? It wasn’t exactly merit or achievement, just pure old fashioned nepotism.
And sorry, Business and Econ degree factories don’t count for research.
dumbass. Had you checked the non-White box, you would e been accepted and then given plenty of scholarships unavailable to Whites.
negroes….lol….who says that anymore???
It’s impossible to be half white; what ever is your minority half is what you are. Like Obama is the black candidate not a white one. Get squared away before some racists does you harm
A lesser shit, interesting concept, and you’re white?
We compared your blog to your mirror blog: Stuff Educated Black People like over at the Bushwick Social Club.
I have a copy of Michelle Obama’s senior essay at Princeton. Let me put it this way:
My children went to a very good public high school where they had to write a long paper— “junior theme”— during their third year. Had either handed in a paper of the quality of MO’s Princeton essay they would have failed.
So, yes, MO only got into Princeton because she was black.
William & Mary, I presume? I can’t think of any other state school that could possibly be mistaken for an Ivy.
Yes, actually they’re really anal about doing it b/c they don’t want to look like racist rich white ppl in the media.
Mr. Duke wanted Princeton to change its name to Duke for a large sum… but Princeton refused, so he went to Trinity College, which acquiesced.
Yea, unfortunately, Princeton actually IS hard to get through. Why can’t we have grade inflation like Harvard does?
Well I don’t know how to put this nicely but… I think before you say that “all college kids are the same”, you should look at the level of difficulty associated with your cousin’s schoolwork. Princeton students have a tendency to play down their talents because they’ve spent most of their lives being showered with praise and are afraid of looking arrogant. If you could break into the admissions office and read the files of 10 random Princeton students, you would know exactly why the “kids there were so much more special”.
The average debt a Princetonian holds at graduation is $5,592
It’s not really a forgotten Ivy, it’s just not one of the Big Three (HYP). Still respectable to be any school in the Ancient Eight.
Ah yes, so the Mexicans that immigrated here and went to school here also obviously demonstrate self-hate.
Hey c’mon, those types of predictors were actually accurate in my case.
While I do agree that NU is probably better than Tufts, Emory, and Tulane, I have an enormous beef with “equal to Harvard.”
OBVIOUSLY the quality of a university is judged by the beauty of the campus and surrounding bodies of water. By that logic, Pepperdine should be gracing the top of US News’ rankings.
The fact that your women’s laX team won back-to-back national titles is something no one knows (or really cares) about. Ask anyone about NCAA D-I athletic powerhouses and it’ll take them allll day before getting to NU… if at all.
“Plus we have famous alumni that people have actually heard of”
What do people who are famous in the entertainment industry (and their relatives) have to do with making your school as good as Harvard? Does that make up for the $25 billion dollar gap in endowment?
By the way, ever heard of Barack Obama (Harvard Law ’91)?
Yea well… not everyone can be a celeb now can they?
Hah my school still regards itself as a harvard of the south, though i do believe we have some claim to the term. Though I’m sure many of them were Harvard rejects who went with the next best thing. Good education for a lower price though; gotta love Rice 🙂
According to the OED:
b. A small group of people differing from the rest of the community in ethnic origin, religion, language, etc.; (now sometimes more generally) any identifiable subgroup within a society, esp. one perceived as suffering from discrimination or from relative lack of status or power.
So minority refers to race, religion, sexual preferance, sub-culture, fetish, and much, much more.
Worth reading http://www.thedopeycowboy.com/2008/05/16/hooks-and-sleds/
Real white people hate the Ivy League because;
It is Overrated;
Sucks at Sports;
Gave us Conan O’Brian;
Gave us “Love Story”;
Gave us “Paper Chase”;
Hates Guns.
I could go on but, like a white person, I’m now bored by the Ivy League. Always have been.
You people don’t know what you’re talking about. The old money in Alabama acts this way even if those high falutin’ Manhattanites don’t.
Seriously. I went to the Harvard of Alabama and I have never been around so many asshats in my life. Southern hospitality is a myth. It had all of the arrogance, ignorance, and the insecurity to breed the person who would think wasp.
They don’t admit kids solely based on minority status/whether or not their parents went to college. They want their students to be able to handle the work and eventually graduate and uphold the school’s reputation. The fact that people say shit like what spin said is disgusting. There is no way that an Ivy would admit the “lowest ranking student,” and even implying that they would is a slap in the face to they highly qualified students attending these schools.
It’s moot. I don’t think anyone at this school bothers to call it “The (insert Ivy League school of your choice) of the Midwest” or would even consider it as such.
Brown06/Columbia10, how could you bring down Penn State like that? Penn State is a great institution with a myriad of valuable programs, undergrad and grad, with a wonderful reputation. (U)Penn is a safe-haven for elitists who were rejected from their first (or second, or third) choice Ivies, or MIT / Cal Tech. Perhaps not all of them, but many I have seen through conferences in Model UN and various student leadership symposiums in the Northeast fit such a mold. It was pretty ridiculously “white people,” but when I was up at Columbia in the Fall, as soon as the one UPenn student left the room all the other Ivy Leaguers started talking about how pathetic he was and how he promulgated all the negative stereotypes.
Brown seems as though it is for laid-back intellectuals. They fill their niche, and their acceptance rates, SAT brackets, and the individuals I know who have gone there support a relaxed (yet no less brilliant) intellectual approach that works for them. Penn, you talk about the “inferiority” of other schools. It’s funny, because you seem to have a severe inferiority complex.
In related news, this topic is dead-on. I’m transferring from a public school in Virginia (and no, not UVA or William and Mary) to an Ivy League in the Fall. As soon as people found out about it, I was attacked for a number of reasons illuminated here.
Let me go find my Sperry’s and those plaid-patchwork J Crew pants….
WTF?!?!?1?
You are so full of shit
The UofC is it’s own dorky beast. And like Stanford, White People like the UofC very much. Do White People really say they’re school is the Harvard of the X (region of the country)? I know people do it, but are they White?
Blue eyed dude. Maybe you are unfamiliar with similar research but the reason blue eyed individuals are often more successful has nothing to do with their abilities only the societal constructs. For example attractive people are more successful, righ children are more successful twins raised by professors are more successful you are clearly just a racist or very uniformed individual. I hope you are see the error of your ways or the similarities in your thoughts and Hitler, who passionately believed in Blue eyes.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. Good jazz exists on the fringe, as it should because it is art and as such likely will stand the test of time and not forgotten as a passing fad.
While it is true that most cities can only support a couple of jazz clubs, that doesn’t make them any less happening. Au contraire they are like hotbeds of plugged in people.
Don’t diss what you don’t understand.
the fact that sarah would even make a statement that’s essentially, “[this or that expensive private university in one tiny region of the english-speaking world] is better than [this or that expensive private university in that same tiny region of the english-speaking world],” shows how foolish, myopic, and unworldly she is. morons like this — people who take the bait despite the overarching premise of this blog — provide at once the reason for the blog’s creation and the evidence of the blog’s ultimate failure to reveal in a meaningful way its target-subculture’s own pettiness and compulsive adherence to its own unfortunate stereotypes. making any sort of statement in earnest here about any of this blog’s topics per se would be like giving a straight answer to an axe-murderer asking, “which limb do you want chopped first?” — any relevant reply you give is not only ineffective, but the existence of it reveals a certain stupidity.
Attractive people tend to land a job easier but it doesn’t help them with a top score in math, unless your eyes are blue of course.
In the spirit of your latest post on “Grammar,” you need to place the period before the quotation mark in your second to last sentence of this post.
I went to Oxford – several Harvard people I know (all overly impressed with themselves) refer to Harvard as ‘the Oxford of the USA’.
This update is onto something though – US college admissions do seem to be hopelessly corrupt, and openly so: development admits, legacy admits, affirmative action.
A few years ago, it was hinted by an Oxford college (Pembroke, I think) that they might admit the son of a rich man (actually an undercover journo) in return for a massive donation – it was front page news for days.
So when an American gives me a sob story about not getting into the Ivy league, I’m more inclined to believe her than a Brit with a similar story about Oxbridge.
No I think you’re wrong here (and I hate those plates too).
The moron is a member of a group – XY college Alumni.
So they put down the name of the group of which they are a member.
This is the same as putting ‘Marines’ even when there’s only one Marine. Perfectly acceptable.
You’re ignorant:
(1) this is not an universal matter – various English dialects differ on this point.
(2) this isn’t a matter of grammar, rather orthography. Get a dictionary; use it.
Idiot.
Harvard’s policy only just recently changed. 5 years ago, you could have a family income of 80K and still have to pay the entire amount (40K a year). I know because I got in. And it turns you Asians (east, south or otherwise) can’t get in on minority status. It’s called Overrepresented minorities…. apparently too many of us are going to college (and becoming doctors, engineers, and scientists) compared to the fact that only 4% of this country is “asian”.
I went to a school that was 40% Asian and I will say… I only knew one Native American the whole time I was there… and he was like half mexican.
Fuck, there is so many white and oreos here that I don’t know what is more funny the blog or the sterotipe american commenting it.
One of the most funny things is the debate of “Obama went to Ivy League School and that doesn’t make him stupid”. If you think he said that, you are the idiot who don’t understand he is talking about a sterotipe who thinks that or want to belive that in order to don’t feel inferior.
Another thing, to be a white american, you don’t need to be caucasean, I have meet a lot of asiatic, hispanic and black people who the stereotype writen here fits perfectly.
So please stop writing, drink your venti soy milk latte with no sugar and an extra shot, think and hit your white/gray keys on your mac, while you are seated in your very special bauhaus barcelona chair.
Wach out, you may stain the legalice LA American Apparel t- or (RED)bla,bla,bla Gap shirt.
By the way I am going to start making tshirts of Miami-Dade Community College, the Harvard of the South East. Lol
you are so clueless. I’m black and I did not attend an HBCU simply “to be around other black people.” That was almost the most unintelligent comment you made until you said something about black people committing the most crime in America? That is ridiculous and completely unfounded.
People of all races get into Ivy Leagues for different reasons whether is be legacy, academic merit, athleticism, or “connections”. However, like the goal of any university, the main idea is developing a diverse campus so that the bright students who will one day graduate from these institutions are not blind-sided by how diverse this world has become due to globalization.
Jesus was jewish and thats that. historical documents prove this. The facts lie in the fact that he looks like the middle eastern men and women that many Americans fear today. Jesus was definitely not white, however whites do the best job of fooling everyone : )
Sorry, did he ‘promulgate’ (announce formally) or ‘perpetuate’ these stereotypes?
That said, Penn’s all right.
Yale’s about 70% white, 30% “other”
and jewish people don’t make up close to half of that 70%, although the jewish population is significant.
But more importantly, you seem to think that white people are more entitled to an ivy league education because these schools were mostly founded by white people. By the same logic, do you think that people of color are less entitled to American citizenship? While i wouldn’t be surprised if you did, i certainly would be disturbed.
ROFLHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
nah, nubia is a region in northeast africa, but nubian has come to be a sort of generalized term for black, whether or not you’re actually of Egyptian/Sudanese descent.
We don’t have minority quotas… and to think that a professor would go easy on a student because of their race is absurd. Obviously you’ve never been a student at Yale.
And the students of color here are equally as qualified.
Something i’d be more concerned about is the fact that the minority students that attend yale are on the whole as wealthy/privileged as the average white student here (who come from quite a range of backgrounds). I wonder if yale/the ivy league is really meeting its commitment to diversity if it’s accepting so many asian/black/hispanic/etc. students from elite prep schools and high socioeconomic backgrounds.
See WWPL, entry #99 🙂
I went to Harvard. It’s the Harvard of well, Harvard.
KIND of different?
There’s always a spot on the assembly line for you. Well, maybe not in Flint.
So you couldn’t get in huh? That sucks. I’d be upset too.
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white ppl like it
True, foreigners do make up a significant portion of PhD’s in the physical science, American born white PhD’s are definitely not negligible. My guess is they make up about half.
Miles’ family always felt the Ivy League was, well, gauche, and opted to send him off to Le Rosey and then on to Eton.
However, he confided in me once that he had dreamed of being a Texas “Aggie,” whatever that is, since age 14 and wanted to study bull riding. The family, of course, sent him for counseling.
Muff
Going to YLS (’89) isn’t the same thing as going to Yale. It’s something, but it ain’t the same thing.
I think it’s important to note here that white people in California look down on Ivy League schools because everything outside of our state (the important parts of it anyway) is obviously inferior and therefore irrelevant to our lives.
Oh fuck! That last line killed it. So true, it’s scary. I go to Vanderbilt, and I’ve heard a lot of people say “It’s the Harvard of the South!”
Except we’ve one upped it, and claim that Harvard is the Vanderbilt of the North.
GG sir.
My Cornell engineering degree has brought me a decent amount of prestige in my career, but every once in a while I’ll meet an arrogant non-Cornell Ivy Leaguer who will inadvertently let out this barely audible, condescending chuckle when they find out where I got my B.S. I seriously think they get it hard-wired into them at the other ivies that Cornell is inferior.
I used to oppose affirmative action on principle because I knew it didn’t help the people it was intended to and I surmised that many times it did reach the right people they struggled and were not better off. And of course anything that systematically discriminates based on race rubs me the wrong way.
But then I got to college and realized they grade on curves. Now I’m glad there are plenty of girls and minorities here to bring down the curve (we don’t have too many recruited athletes or “development” admits or legacies, I believe).
Of course, if it came up for vote in my state I’d vote for one of those civil rights amendments to ban racial and gender discrimination. But until then I’ll reap the benefits.
I go to pitt and I must say when WVA lost it was no big deal because all they did was ruin another school’s season, pitt went home for christmas let’s get real
Absolutely, unequivocally hillarious.
mount holyoke?
oberlin
Cornell is the Ivy League for farmers.
hil went to wellesley for undergrad… the harvard of women’s colleges??
My lil sister is an undergrad at Northwestern (10 white points). She likes indie music (15 WP). Is a vegan (20 WP) and rides her bike to school and work (10 WP). This Christmas we are revoking her Mexican card. She’s done.
Dude,
I am a grad student and white, but I never went to IVY League. I started out at community college.
and that is why I would never talk to an Ivy Leager. I would never associate with such assholes
It’s also important to remember that the Ivy league extends to schools that are small liberal arts colleges that might as well be Ivy League.
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Fantastic! People getting offended, a perfect case study for Post #101!
You mean “SUNY Ithaca?”
Little known fact: MIT is the functional equivalent of Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. This is because almost anyone from MIT focused on math or science. If you are good at math or science, white people will secretly envy you.
This envy arises from a simple realization: math people can easily master the softer social sciences but social sciences people cannot begin to understand math. White people passed the math and science torch to Asians and Indians long ago. If you are one of the few remaining math and sciences whites, your status amongst white people will rise…
Hey! That’s my school!
What beautiful buildings we have. haha.
Brown should be noted as the Ivy for the white kids who say they hate the “dog and pony show”, but then went ahead and performed anyway.
Stanford loves to call itself the “Harvard” of the West Coast. Hell, someone who graduated from Stanford once insisted to me that Stanford is part of the Ivy League.
If you’re that smart, why you gotta pretend to be part of the Ivy League? Or why don’t you at least know what the Ivy League really is? It’s 8 schools on the East coast, and if you went to Stanford, you didn’t go to one of them.
Today I read the ivy league post on “stuff white people like.” I stumbled across an interview by one of my fave writers david samuels and the interviewer starts her question with this rant before her first query with the ivy league educated Samuels:
Gina: The vagaries of higher education are on my mind a lot these days, as my daughter starts high school in the fall. I went to San Francisco State University. Through the course of my publishing career, I’ve known a lot of Ivy graduates and seen up close how that club functions…they do rule the world and favor their own and they’re not all as brilliant as they think they are.
I’m encouraging my daughter to aim high with her college ambitions even though we have little savings to pay for tuition and no legacy ties because I don’t want her to be penalized for lack of access to power.
Who mentored you as a writer?
LMAO…. Can you imagine being interviewed by this lunatic? This website is pure genius.
OOH SHAT ON
By the way, it’s actually SUNY Binghamton, not Binghamptopn. People from the Ivy League may not know that, but people from SUNY Binghamton do.
And clearly I went to a state school, as I can’t proofread. Sigh.
He knows. He’s just being racist on the internet.
Jewish is also an ethnic group, one that today applies to a range of phenotypes (Ashkinazi, Sephardic, et. al.) but back then wasn’t quite as diverse. He was probably a brownish tan and curly-haired. After the Roman diaspora, Jews came in contact with other populations and became a much more phenotypically diverse group.
It’s not rocket science, just read a book (other than the Bible).
Yeah, but Stanford is pretty equivalent in terms of the style of education and the age of the institution. The Ivy League is exactly what it sounds like, a sports league. There was no way Stanford could join Ivy League with East Coast schools at the time intercollegiate sports began. But in every other aspect, it’s a lot like an Ivy League school.
Yeah, if you don’t commit suicide first.
Enjoy your suicide prevention day!
Clearly you didn’t ‘prep’ enough because you could not identify that suz was using it as an adjective in that sentence she wrote.
You used it as a verb in you rather clumsy attempt to socially stratify yourself.
Ya lady we’ve all seen Gossip Girl, get over yourself.
Isn’t WVA “the Harvard of Appalachia?”
Then why did you attend an HBCU? No offense to you, personally, but black teachers are the worst fuckin’ entities in the academic field. Racist assholes who teach with a huge chip on their shoulders, all of them. They love to name-drop what school they went to if it was a relatively big name, and think that since they’re black, and presumably know what it’s like to experience real-world racism, they have the liberty to say racially insensitive comments to other white and non-black students. I had a black female teacher who did nothing but build our undergraduate English curriculum on black-oriented literature and race issues. She told a white student that she was glad that “she didn’t have pasty white skin, because who’d want to be sickly and pale?”, and various other comments that would have gotten a white or other teacher fired. Black teachers need to keep their own personal racial crises to themselves, and or yes — maybe just haul their racist, insensitive asses to HBCU campuses. And btw, urban blacks do commit the most crime in their areas.
I just graduated from Princeton two weeks ago. There were great things about it, and not-so-great things about it. To highlight the not-so-great things, I made a short film this past year that pokes fun at everything Princeton, and probably at the Ivy League in general. Below is a link and a brief synopsis of the movie. Check it out.
THE TAKE HOME FINAL
Even at Princeton University there are slackers, and Gary Klondike is one of the best. Having been on academic probation multiple times, Gary must finish a take home final from one of his bullsh*t Sociology classes, or he faces expulsion. Janet, Gary’s girlfriend, sees this moment as the perfect escape clause out of her relationship. She’s wanted to dump Gary for a long time, but can’t because Gary belongs to Princeton’s exclusive Ivy Club, which Janet hopes to join as she is a social climber. It’s his goal to finish the final over the weekend, it’s her goal to stop him. A short film by Robert Gati.
Hey, idiot! I wonder if you are just trying to get a rise out of black people. I am black. I EARNED a 4.0 gpa, and I scored a 39 on the mcat. Guess what? I recently got into Yale Med School, and I can guarantee that my stats are better than the vast majority of my white counterparts. Did your parents ever tell you to close your mouth when you chew? Well, here is some advice: Close your mouth (and cut off your fingers), when you think.
Ha! I graduated from Wash U, the Harvard of St. Louis. I went to a Columbia U happy hour one summer on the East Coast and some tool asked me how they would let the likes of a Wash U student into their elite social event. After that episode, I have never been more proud to be an alumna of the community college otherwise known as Wash U.
i went to Yale!
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How did y’all pay for your ivy league degrees?
So true– even in freshman year of high school people won’t stop talking about “filling up those applications” and “beating out the other applicants.” And of course, all of this comes from a person who attended Reed College, “which is actually just as good as any Ivy you could look at, just on the wrong coast!”
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html
Wonder if any of you have read the above?
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html
Cornell IS inferior.
hear hear!! excellently written.
To Jeffery: I would disagree and say where are your sources? I am 2008 Princeton graduate and from my four years living there, when I took a ‘look around’, there were mostly Caucasians walking around me. When I went to the ‘Street’, attended classes…they were predominately White. The only time where Whites were in the minority of attendance was during cultural events.
What’s wrong with liking Ivy League? Everyone should thrive to be the best. Having goal is paramount in life, I cannot understand why wanting to attend an elite school is wrong?
BTW, Ivy Leagues are not just a “white pursue”; Asians have their dip as well. In fact, in Colombia U, there’s way more Asians (percentage wise) in the school then in the city
Oh, the Ivy’s. The Stanfords of the East.
Really? “Colombia U”?
The movie I made making fun of Princeton (posted earlier, pg 28) just got a special shout out on the Simply Scripts homepage!
http://simplyscripts.com
That accidentally became a smile icon. The link is on pg. 28 of the comments.
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“They desperately need a source of comparison so that they need to figure out if you are actually smarter than them.”
It would actually be “they”
The worst part is I just finished reading the grammar blog, and I still couldn’t help myself.
Proud graduate of a California State Uni college!
Personally I would never want to go to an Ivy League, those nerds don’t know how to party! I mean, ew. I feel sorry for them, actually.
And they feel bad for you
My favorite is when I tell whites that I attended Yale as a South Asian, they ask, oh did you win an international scholarship? To which I have to painfully respond, no I am from Napa.
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I did too. Teach me grammatical, wise one,
are you by any chance on a girls gone wild video? Sorry, I’m not usually mean like that.
I thought this one was a little off, if only because it strays from the yuppie vibe of the other posts. the other stuff that white people like such as being offended seem to be things that middle-upper class people do, who are also the people who attend ivy league schools. as a canadian who went to a self-accalimed ‘harvard of the north’ school (Queen’s) I woudl say it is as close to Ivy League as canada gets. in fact, i would say that people that WENT to ivy league schools do these things to attest if you are in fact on the same intellectual level as they are
heh you aren’t smart enough to realize this site is describing you repeatedly.
I learned a few valuable things at Cornell. One of those was “work hard, play hard”. Trust me, we know how to party.
yeah you’re totally right; there is nothing wrong with wanting to go to an ivy league school. what’s wrong is hating yourself forever if you don’t get in, and hating those who did…someone’s gonna read this and say duh.
Just by chance came across this website. I am an honors ivy league graduate who has always been extremely reticent about bringing up that fact, and has a complex relation to ‘educational privilege’ and being perceived as brainy or smart, or being the object of the negativities of envy… my own mother has put me down for attending Yale, as if it’s a pretension, slings around words like ‘snob’, and reflexively puts me down for not getting a job (You should be pounding the pavements, etc., etc., though she also put down the jobs I did work as ‘menial’)…. when I pursued a grad degree. The stereotypes of ‘white ppl at ivy leagues’ (i”m not actually white but a racial mix) in these responses does not encompass the full range of what it means for an individual to live in this society; people do not equal their outer demographic. Hard to take all these comments seriously.
I think this has a lot to do with how our current president got into the ivy league.
pft, university of toronto and mcgill are closer to the ivy league than queens =P
word on the cornell stat. i don’t know about any other school, but being a young 20 something has actually been quite a relief for my poor over-worked liver.
excuse me WHAT? you clearly went to a non-ivy league school, as you would know that cornell works the hardest out of any of the ivies if you had.
Stanford>harvard
Jane and Finch is bad by Toronto standards, but Toronto is amazingly safe. I think about 3 people have been shot and killed so far in Jane and Finch in 2008 (total population being about 50k). Hardly “scary” by any US big city standards.
Jane and Finch has about the same amount of crime as the Lower East Side in NYC. ie, the hipster neighborhood of Manhattan that spawned the likes of the Strokes (and back when they made it big in 2001, the LES was about 2 – 3 times as dangerous as Jane and Finch). Hardly “hardcore” in any sense of the word. Pick any of the “bad” neighborhoods of NYC (like the South Bronx, Bed-Stuy, etc) and each one alone will have more crime than ALL of Toronto combined.
Basically, a ghetto in Toronto is about as dangerous as the “gentrified” neighborhoods of Manhattan. Jane and Finch is just where the black people live in Toronto, and to Canadians, that means it must be super violent. I really feel that Jane and Finch comments are just lightly veiled racist comments, especially since the entertainment district in Toronto has about as many shootings as Jane and Finch yet its not mentioned as being “ghetto”.
You can compare stats yourself:
http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/statistics/stats.php
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml
PS. I’ve lived in both Toronto, LA, NYC, Dallas, etc. I’ve personally walked in both the good and bad neighborhoods of all those cities. I’m not saying I’d let my wife walk around Jane and Finch by herself in the middle of the night, but its not comparable to US ghettos. From my experience, most Torontonians practically wet themselves when they cross into Buffalo and aren’t really the most objective when it comes to what is “ghetto”.
The median household income for Jane and Finch is $37k / year. That means 50% of the households make more than $37 k a year. The medium income for the US is about
$42k/household.
In other words, a Jane and Finch household is just slightly poorer than your average American family and its probably safe to say that your average Jane and Finch household makes easily at least twice as much as a family in the ghettos of Chicago, Houston, LA, etc.
Canadians should be PROUD of not having any ghettos comparable to whats in the US. I wish the US could be so lucky.
This is so hilarious. I went to the Claremont Colleges, or should I say, “The Ivy League schools of Southern California”
please see last line of post
the “Little Ivies”: Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, Hamilton, Haverford, Wesleyan.
Meh. we all still chose better than Cornell at least…
Vanderbilt should be an IVY.
Wow, its pretty stunning how many respondents are sooooo bent out of shape by an obviously satirical site that targets a very specific group of mostly coastal White folks…..who largely find the site to be hilarious. Funny stuff. Only in America.
I agree. Wholeheartedly.
That’s where I went to school!!! They were always talking about how they are “The Harvard of the South”
So much so that it was even in their advertisements for the school. Administration is still very upset that they didn’t achieve Ivy League statur again this year. “Next year, we can not be denied.” I’m told. “The value of your education should be adequately acknowledged.”
That’s where I went to school!!! They were always talking about how they are “The Harvard of the South”
So much so that it was even in their advertisements for the school. Administration is still very upset that they didn’t achieve Ivy League status again this year. “Next year, we can not be denied.” I’m told. “The value of your education should be adequately acknowledged.”
The “aggies” refer to Texas A&M.
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Though you’ve tamed most of the heathen and the barbarians too!
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They tried to say that ‘you can’t jump’.
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You might not have much rhythm,
But you can (steal) carry a good tune,
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You made it through civil rights and women’s lib too,
You’ve been through a lot, good buddy, no wonder you can sing the blues!
If the world’d open their eyes, they’d see that in the past you’re not really stuck,
Even though you still fly a rebel flag, at least it’s on a Japanese pickup truck!
Black may be beautiful, and tan may be grand,
But white’s still the color of the BIG BOSS MAN!
’Ask not’ (J.F.K.) whether it’s true,
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Don’t drop the ball now and lose the home court advantage,
Or we’ll all have to say the pledge of allegiance in Spanish!(‘Press Uno for English’)
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Stand up like a white man and do your white duty,
Or we’ll all be blown to hell by sheik your booty!
ASK NOT whether, Hillary or Obama can rule,
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The Ivy League was just a sports league for the schools in the northeast and used as a tool for exclusivity. I don’t think you can actually gain acceptance as an Ivy League school.
Not all ivy league schools are expensive i know that Cornell has a few schools for NY residents that are state endowed saving them 17-20 thousand a year
i know why im not in the yearbook, its casue whiteys keepin me down
like oberlin
“the harvard of the midwest”
LOL so dellusional
um, no.
again. um, no.
Do white people like to write self conscious lists about what white people like?
Signed,
Casper
I live in Kansas City and have heard people call KU, the Harvard of the Midwest. No shit!
That’s absolutely ludicrous.
Yes, Tracy, and you need family connections to get in. Fortunately, they are easy to find.
Well, at least you won’t get “poison ivy.”
And exotic dancing and lacrosse. You like that, too.
Probably too busy with work-study.
FUCK YOU RSACIST
I went to Strayer University, the unquestioned “Harvard of the Internet and strip-mall’s”. Take that ivy league!
i think anybody would want to feel that they made the best choice with their life – and i am not white. hispanic.
its like me saying why i went to community college instead of a university, which i will now enrolling for this fall 😉
“which I will now enroll for this fall” – damn typos
Harvard- The Tufts down the street.
LOL! I love the SAT part, people always ask me my SAT scores and based solely on that go, “Yeah, I think Princeton will probably let you in.” I love the tense setting of college preparation!
While there are plenty of schools that have standards comparable to those of the Ivy League, I can think of only one or two public universities that measure up, and KU is not among them.
The only Ivies that are really “special” are Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, roughly in that order. If you went to Dartmouth or Penn or someplace, you don’t really get to brag to your friends at, for example, Cal, Chicago, or Duke.
(I’m not just a case of sour grapes, either. I got in everywhere I applied, and I chose a stronger science/engineering school over Princeton, though I derived more pleasure sending my “I chose someplace else” letter to Stanford. The Ivy League is nice, but if you want to work at NASA rather than Wall Street, it’s not necessarily your best bet.)
No southern school would ever join the Ivy League, since the Ivy League is a SPORTS league, and traveling up to the Northeast for every sporting event would be cost prohibitive.
The best southern schools are in the ACC, SEC, and C-USA, and they really have no incentive to change leagues.
Heck, not even all of the best northeastern schools are in the Ivy League. MIT comes to mind as the most prominent counterexample.
Definitely THIS.
I got in at Stanford, and I didn’t even bother applying at Harvard.
Stanford is clearly better than all but three of the Ivy League schools, but it amazes me that someone could actually graduate from Stanford without noticing that they are part of the PAC-10. You know, something about a big game against Cal.
MIT cannot begin to compete with the liberal arts programs at Yale or Harvard, but neither of the latter two can hold a candle to MIT’s engineering/math/science. The same could be said for most of the Ivy League, though Columbia is good for engineering, and Princeton is a decent science school (albeit one with tiny grad programs).
Comparing schools on a one-dimensional scale is not the best way to go. MIT does some things better than almost everyone else, but there are areas where it gets beaten handily.
The same goes for all top tier schools.
Sometimes I sort of wish the best schools in the south would form their own academic powerhouse league. Big conference football money will prevent this, but I’d love to see a league that looks something like this:
Duke
Vandy
UNC
Emory
Tulane
Rice
Texas
SMU
If the Midwest isn’t too far away for travel purposes, Northwestern, Chicago, and Washington-Saint Louis could join, as well.
Rice is much more similar to Princeton than Harvard. Rice and Princeton are both incredibly strong in science, and both are somewhat weak in humanities. Neither has graduate programs that are quite as strong as their undergraduate programs.
Harvard is larger, has stronger liberal arts (stronger than anyone, really), and has some of the best graduate programs around, making up for an undergraduate program that, while good, is not as good as Princeton’s.
So, Rice is more similar to Princeton, whereas a closer match to Harvard would be UT-Austin.
mas it takes way more than SAT scores to make the Ivies, it costs a lot, this is why Dubya graduated Yale and there are geniuses that go to Community College you have to pay for it if you get accepted, this is what it takes
1450 accepted to Yale and I couldn’t go despite recommendation letters written by several professors, what MTVs true life I’m a genius and maybe your slow ass will understand how things work
Dartmouth grads make more on average than any other alums, read before u speak u tard
Classic left-wing “student” activist statement from the aptly named Josh (do you carry a backpack and appear on teenaged soaps?). Bush (Mr. President to you) had SAT scores double yours as well as family contacts that well-exceeded that of the whiny son of a Scarsdale plastic surgeon named Josh.
You are right on about this one. I went to an Ivy League school, and I get all of the same reactions that you list here, and more. Don’t listen dumbasses who just validate your arguments with their comments.
As an Ivy Leaguer, I freely admit that there are public and private schools that are just as good, if not better. Some are even more expensive. I think one should go where they can get the best education for whatever field they want to go into.
And by the way, I paid for my degree with scholarships and STUDENT LOANS. You can go to any college if you are willing to take on DEBT.
you can not make above a 1600 on your SAT retard, Bush sucks and so do u
Prolly Univ of Chicago or maybe Northwestern… or maybe Wash U?
“Why is our children not learning?”
George W. Bush (Dubya smooth talks the public again with his powerful rhetoric)
read a Bushisms book and then tell me how intelligent Bush is u moron
I went to both. Yale and Sciences Po. That makes me whiter?
“mas it takes way more than SAT scores to make the Ivies, it costs a lot…”
err, perhaps check the facts. No college in the US is free, but Harvard and the like are a bargain.
A few years back, Princeton started about the most generous fin aid program in the US – they make up the difference between what the student’s family is calculated to to be able to afford and the full tuition with a straight grant. No loans, you graduate with no debt. The other Ivies have followed with some variance. Of course the student still needs to have a family somewhere, be able to secure a place to live in the summer and rent/borrow a vehicle to move themselves on/off campus each year, but those costs are the same everywhere.
The bottom line is that for families making less than average, sending their kid to Harvard is cheaper than to a state school which may have a price of half or less of an Ivy’s. There are other schools offering an equal or better undergrad education (Amherst, Haverford, etc) but few have the cash reserves to help students to the same degree.
Let me guess…you go to …DUKE?
OMG!!!!
Superman had sidekick…. that can’t be right?
Anyhow…that poem was really deep…Im going to save it to my HD.
I am sad to see that no one has mentioned the “Harvard of Oklahoma (and possibly Kansas)” my alma mater, The University of Oklahoma. It may not be the true Harvard, but hey, I graduated in May and I found a job during the recession so OU can’t be too terrible. BOOMER SOONER.
I was an undergrad at Stanford, and although I never heard anyone actually call it “The Havard of the West”, I can say that lots of folks there do seem to have a little bit of a “Harvard complex.” I should point out that this really only applies to Harvard, and nowhere else (not Yale, not Princeton). There’s still a little bit of awe and jealousy that Stanford people have regarding all things Harvard, even though many/most people there know that there are many reasons to be grateful they’re at S. rather than H., and are probably a lot happier than most Harvard undergrads. It basically comes down to the fact that Harvard has and always will have more prestige attached to its name than anywhere else, regardless of whether or not its actually “better” than its peers.
Ahhh, Josh, you poor thing. It looks to me like somebody didn’t get enough love in his childhood and thus has to go parading around the Internet for validation from strangers!!! You must be on Facebook. Your screen name is 1450 and too good for Yale.
The Ivies are rife with grade inflation, and as a general statement, have profs who don’t give our their home phone numbers to students, never mind speak to them after class. I’ve been to a high prestige school, and a local community college. Having a degree from a snooty school is like carrying a Prada handbag instead of one from the Foot Locker. It hardly matters, and the only people who will be impressed are insecure snobs. On the other hand, hot shot schools usually have great pools and gyms, and that’s a definite perk.
When I went to the Ivy League for my degrees, I had a combined SAT of 1590. Good grades, which I earned. And I’d AP’d 27 credits.
This was in the days when people had to have some modicum of intelligence. Not just a whole bunch of fifth-rate racial resentment (like Michele Obama) that they could then write up in some postmodern horseshit stew.
I don’t like the Ivy League. I fucking love it. My education was challenging, like bootcamp is challenging (I’ve done both). I learned a lot from first-rate minds, then I applied it in first-rate companies and organizations.
Though I have to say it’s getting pretty weak with all the dumbing down. Screw affirmative action and all other Special Olympics models of society. My parents had ninth-grade educations. I paid my way through three Ivy degrees (the Ph.D. was on merit scholarship) and hard work. I never gave a shit about racism, classism, etc. If you work hard and are smart, you excel. As it should be. If you’re dumbass, lazy, unmotivated, stupid, etc., then you deserve to be left behind.
Also, I didn’t need debt to get my four degrees, which launched two successful (simultaneous) careers. Work and scholarships did it all.
School debt is a sign of someone who probably should be in tech college instead of whatever degree they’re hoping to buy like a Lexus, bankrupting themselves now and in the future.
Too bad if you’re fifth rate, huh!?
I go to the University of Pittsburgh. That’s not even the Harvard of Pittsburgh. Damn Carnegie Mellon.
Id think after boasting about how smart are, that maybe at some point you would learn how not to sound like such an asshole. Just Sayin…
Coming from a larger city and going to a second tier state school in a small rural town. Then staying out all night drinking and then sitting in the parking lot in the morning drinking scotch with your friends while people you went to high school with recognize you on their way to college classes at 8am.
My friends had that happen to them and I was always somehow jealous.
“If you’re dumbass, lazy, unmotivated, stupid, etc., then you deserve to be left behind.”
The next time you write about other people’s stupidity, try using parallel structure.
White Brazilian at an Ivy League.
I worked my ass off in High School, pursued many extra curricular activities, and got good grades. This is why I am here. To say that Ivy League students are “smarter” is incorrect; however, I believe that with the more work intensive schools (Cornell, Yale), the workload is more demanding than in non-Ivy’s (lol MIT and Stanford are obv exceptions).
Good use of a semicolon. Poor use of “lol.” Deinitely good use of condescension.
yale grad here 🙂
http://www.SHOP-LUSCIOUS.com
I think we “deinitely” lump Brazilians in with the non-whites and are smart enough so we don’t need to proof-read. Then we can patronize what we are pleased to call their condescension.
Many people from my highschool did that. They where not white.
I dropped out of a third rate state school after three years. Can I still be white?
Am a doctor. Went to Penn. Went to public schools, got scholarships and loans, worked hard. Am white.
you’re kidding “rite”..: ) “where” c’mon, I thought at least, this area would be error proof.
I went to Cambridge
the real one, in England.
and thanks to the socialized education system that existed before Thatcher, I paid no tuition fees.
and that gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing
Also it should be noted that only really advanced white people (and maybe asians or something similar) know what “second tier” means and use Ivy in the plural and abbreviate the word “obviously”
booyah.
haha. I go to the “Harvard of the west”.
Shouldn’t “Ivy’s” be “Ivys” instead? God, we are really all asses, aren’t we?
Oh please! The fastest way to get scholarship money from dook is to tell the financial aids folks that you were admitted to Harvard or Yale. Duke is a safety school for kids who didn’t get into one of the Ivies or Stanford.
That is so funny because I go Cornell University one of the Ivy League schools and the first thing they ask is my SAT Scores so they can say that I got in because of affirmative action
I’m feeling you AC. I didn’t do the Ivy League thing, but I graduated from a top 20 law school. When I got accepted, the first thing a white friend asked me dealt with my LSAT score, which was immediately followed by: “How many black people does the law school accept?” Of course affirmative action is the reason we got into the schools we did. There’s an affirmative action grading policy, too. How else could we have graduated?
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AA
affirmative action also includes Europeans, white people.
white people are so much better than black people, because we don’t make websites titled, “what black people like”. Because black people like talking about hating white people. White people do not have a problem with blacks….
get over urself
Affirmative action is a fact, and a law in some cases. Not all African Americans get in because of race, most get in by grades, but no denying the fact that some do get in by race. Asians are smart ass hell so they don’t need affirmative action. Europeans are just, well European. The fact is in most cases for schools to get any funding from the state they must have certain percentages of different minorities; and schools like to say they have X amount of people from X amount of different countries. Yeah I am white, and no, I don’t ask for peoples SAT scores, so suck it!
black people hate white people
you can take ur book and show it up ur black ass
this is an absolutely hilarious website. I love it!!! I laughed so hard I started to cry.
hahaha. you’re an idiot. he’s not black…
… a white person runs this site. You seem silly now
“i go Cornell Univerity, one of the Ivy League schools” are you fucking serious? you do not go to cornell, youre a highschool graduate who didn’t do anything after graduating and you lie on the internet to make yourself feel better.
these comments are almost as funny as the actual post.
this is so ironic on so many levels…
i’m so fucking in awe of people’s stupidity.
especially the people who claim to be from
ivy league schools and take offense…who take
this so seriously. isn’t that another post?
ingenious site.
George Bush does not like white people.
I’m way too black to get into an Ivy League school….
They want Taye Diggs, not my uber-urban ass…
But I wish I had the opportunity, if not to simply scare the shit out of elitists…
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/11/03/has-the-silent-majority-become-the-misinformed-minority-almost-40-years-later/
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/11/05/something-to-take-your-mind-off-of-all-the-politics/
this was so great! I go to the Ivy of Troy NY, RPI hahaha. I would have went to Cornell or Columbia, except the whole thing about them being extremely selective. So what if I am not cream of the crop? At least RPI has a 3:1 guy to girl ratio. Take that Dartmouth! Rensselaer is like the butthole of the top 50…. I have heard happier stories come out of state prison. “Well, atleast I got some booty.” YES I SAID IT! The only was you are getting pussy at Rensselaer is if you work part time as animal control in Troy. Shit for 53K a year you better be working somewhere. God knows our parents aren’t Ivy league legacies, so we cant afford the finer things in life, like tuition. I once heard some one describe RPI as the Elimidate of tier 1 schools. Even Union College makes fun of us, and they are all have a gram-a-day coke habit. SUNY Albany parties until there is no more herpes to go around. Even the community colleges look down upon us. RPI, the best of the best, ask Dr. Jackson!
stanford
go school built on native tribal grounds lol
thats awsome
i wish we had that in the states
true true
Now, I like most of the things on your list and I’m African-american! Does this mean that I’m not black? Does it mean that I’m trying to be white? I don’t like hip-hop (except for old school) and I do listen to and enjoy classical music. You know, I am mixed though. Maybe my “white” heritage is taking precedent as I get older. I ate asparagus two days in a row. When I asked my mom why we didn’t eat it when we were younger, she said…”Uhh…hmm..asparagus was…too expensive for ‘us'”. I was like…ohhh..okay…that’s another way of saying black people don’t eat asparagus.
This is a very funny blog. I’ve been laughing even up til now. I found this site because I was researching Ivy League schools lol!
You forgot something though…white people like following the stock market and volunteering. I didn’t see that on your list lol!
Hey you RPI student. I never even heard of that school! See, are you white? White people always know about things that are totally unknown by black folks….at least where I’m from anyway. I wish I could’ve went to your school you lucky *beep* lol! Your school has a better website than the most of the Ivy league schools. That’s important to vain people like myself. I mean…have you seen Browns’ website? It’s actually Brown. I mean…that was not creative at all. They need to spice it up a bt. Anyway. I thought I’d comment because you were downing your school eventhough it’s actuall a very very very good school according to the research ie google. Congrats!
Too bad all that expensive Ivy League education can’t teach them the basics of life.
I had an aunt who graduated from Cornell…She was a snob and nobody liked her. And when she died, nobody cared.
My other aunt only made it to the 8th grade….She showed so much love to everyone. And when she died the whole town cried.
Damn right!… RPI is sexless… Matt…that’s why you have to go to Sunny Albany’s parties, Siena college, blah, blah… there are a lot of schools in the area that compensate the lack of ** in RPI.
Still RPI is considered as a new IVY by BusinessWeek, and Dr. Jackson has a reputation difficult to match, even posted on MIT’s board.
Go red!
It’s IVIES.
I went to Harvard. I’m smarter than all of you non-Ivy Leaguers. I’m sorry that you guys aren’t good enough to get into my school. Maybe if you tried harder… or, were smarter.
yeah, i agree. i’m actually an Ivy Leaguer and HATED my entire four years there. i just stayed to please my ultra conservative parents, who raised me with ultra-white values (think Barack Obama).
i thought they were the biggest bunch of ignorant snots. the only thing that set them apart from other non-ivy leaguers who are just as smart, was that they thought they deserved the entire world and knew everything from their VERY narrow little box!!! (they didn’t even know what a filipino looked like… lol) the experience wasn’t entirely horrible. the research was cutting edge, all my professors didn’t know how to teach but were leaders in their respective fields, and the ENTIRE student population was really smart…and were not insecure in the least.
but yeah, i agree, most everyone was competitive and did not care that much (though many did, but it didn’t rank as high as being god’s gift to humanity) about being a human being. instead of a fun college experience, it was a club of super snots who could never acknowledge they were snots least they’d have to accept other lesser-beings (non-ivy leaguers) as actually being worth their time.
the thought was that, you were good enough to get in, so you’ll be good enough to survive and deal with my mudslinging, grandiose, overbearing ego. I suppose there are trade-offs to everything… the best ranked, also means the worst humans…just look at Lehman Brothers.
that is a funny analysis! are you british?
The listed things are too true for words.
i have a friend who calls her school an “public ivy” and insists that people only gets into ivies bc they’re mexican.
oh white people…
The Ivy League is an opportunity to get a cutting edge education. It does not mean that everyone in an Ivy does. Many just get as drunk as possible to erase any permanent trace of feelings of ineptitude. The faculty are brilliant, and while their knowledge is not easily accessible, it is truly worthwhile to invest time in acquiring it. Since when have worthwhile things been easy to find? The Ivy League insures that its acceptances are geared toward people who are most likely to take advantage of the resources offered. Rare books, brilliant faculty, generally well learned student body, and above all, the challenge of learning to survive in a group of highly capable, highly motivated people. They Ivy league teaches people incredible work ethics. Even the laziest student pulls frequent all nighters. This isn’t a country club…it’s a school.
For the record. The Ivy I go to has grade deflation. Good luck to us who are competing against other Ivies with hyper inflated grades.
We also have to deal with the double edged sword of knowing that even telling people where we go to school could lead to the potential loss of a love interest or mistreatment at the hands of an insecure boss.
Because the 8th grade aunt was a hooker?
Yer hilarious!
My son is 2. His father graduated from Princeton and then HBS. His father’s father graduated from Princeton and then HBS. I have already taught my son to say he’s going to Harvard and when he is old enough he will understand what the word “legacy” means. He’s been given a ticket most don’t even know exists. I absolutely don’t want him to go to any non-Ivy League school. I’ve seen the fiscal opportunities afforded by my charming alma-mater as opposed to his father’s alma-maters. His father can make in a day what I make in a month. Money cannot buy happiness but is sure can contribute to a much happier lifestyle.
lol, RIGHT, because getting into an ivy league is based solely on intelligence and not affected at all by income level, legacy status, and ethnicity. If that were the case, Harvard would be all Asians.
No blogger on this site actually graduated an Ivy
it is easy to morph into a pompous egotistical wanna-be intellectual through the transcendent anonymity of an avatar, but this doesn’t make you genius by any means, if you were really Ivy league level you would find such a low brow activity boring and a waste of your precious all night study time
Who cares if you go to an Ivy league school? In the end, it all comes out to what you make of your education. No matter where you go, you just have to have an idea or a plan and make it happen. Sure, getting into an Ivy League school could be your “dream” all throughout high school, but when your time there is over there, everyone is chasing after the same thing, success.
For example, a kid who lived in my town, who was just as ordinary as the rest of us, spent the entire summer in his room hacking into the iPhone so that it could be used on his wireless company. He finally accomplished his goal and was able to use the iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network. He instantly became known and sold the iPhone for and insanely expensive car. He gained acceptance to MIT that fall, but dropped out to move to California. There, he got a job with Google and became a multi-millionaire at the age of 19 with no college degree.
After college, although Ivy Leaguers may have an advantage over non-Ivy Leaguers, it all comes down to who wants that particular job more and who will work harder to achieve it.
so true, georgie bush and ted kazenski are both Ivy grads
As a student who is currently applying to college, some of which are in the Ivy league, I find this entry absolutely hilarious! I’ve recently had many college conversations with adults, all of whom are still enamored with their respective alma-maters. I guess their school pride never goes away
God help those over age 40 who still haven’t recovered from not having “been” Ivy League.
This article is crap. People have hard feelings towards Ivy League schools becuse they were not smart enough to be admitted into one! It is easy to make fun of what you can’t do. This is a classic example.
The authors and bloggers who make fun and degrade Ivy League universities are jealous of all Ivy graduates’ intelligence.
Spot on!
Yeah this is totally true, and I am the white man. I am a soon-to-be Ivy League reject, and I will probably come up with an excuse as to why I was not accepted, although honestly, it’s so damn hard to get in, qualified people can still miss it. Anyway, this article knows me well.
You hate freedom. Stop commenting on sites where people possess decent senses of humor.
This article is so funny! People need to understand that getting into a highly selective college is like a lottery. If you didn’t get in, so what?
I have five words for all of you: Drew Gilpin Faust Fan Club. How could anyone not love her! Harvard or Not!
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BEST OF ALL THE QUAKER MEN ’58 IS TOPS AT PENN !FRESHMAN ON THE FIELD ETC.
There are really only three “Ivies” – Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The rest DON’T COUNT!
But there are worse things than ending up at Dartmouth. Like me. I ended up at an “Ivy Equivalent” – Stanford – BUT I was a scholarship student. I might as well have been the toilet monitor. Die Luft der Freiheit Weht, my ass.
The Daily Show is the Harvard of Comedy Central.
The black lab is the Harvard of dogs.
Slow-cook oatmeal is the Harvard of breakfast.
The American beech is the Harvard of trees.
The cello is the Harvard of instruments.
The Maine coon cat is the Harvard of cats.
The peony is the Harvard of perennials.
The quiche is the Harvard of brunch.
I could go on. And on.
The butterfly is the Harvard of swimming strokes.
The duck boot is the Harvard of wet cold winter footwear.
Stop me somebody.
The Boston rocker is the Harvard of chairs.
Ikea is the Harvard of discount shopping.
Please.
Somebody stop me.
Oh my god, story of my life. Fucking UPenn who took the half-Portuguese/half-Venezuelan girl at my school over 100% white me. She is probably about as smart as I am, but I know my ranking was higher, and I’ll bet my SAT score was, too.
please dont f**k w/ my email, i dont feel like changing it.
this some funny stuff, most of the cracks on white people r true.
Im sure i have committed some of these frauds but i find myself laughing at my own people cuz they have no idea how foolish they look.
Most of em have never heard of jill scott but they all know lupe fiasco.
But I don’t go to ugly sweater parties, and neither does ANYONE i know. just to clear that up.
By the way, does steve erkyl really exist anywhere in america. Maybe some son of a lawyer from ghana whos here on a scholarship but….
Since Obama got elected black people started tipping delivery drivers, OBAMA 2012′!!!
sike, i hope im not still delivering pizzas by then.
Wuts up with the black guys dressing like Buddy Holly? good shit though.
White people who live in the ghetto are either really dumb or really unlucky.
Many bright blacks in the inner city, very few bright whites there. Can you spell inequaltiy?
Be nice to young white people, they just want things to feel normal. Being rude and arrogant by choice is only going to make things worse. That goes for all people.
Black men, start treating your women better or they might find an upstanding white guy with some rhythm and a big weiner(not as rare as you think). Every table turns and turns again.
last thing, to all people. unless your time hear on earth results in a positive benefit or atleast an intended positive benefit for more people than yourself, your a waste and a weight on the back of society. so buck the F**k up and DO THE RIGHT THING.
By the way do you think it was right for those people to burn down Sal’s pizzaria when the cops killed radio Rahim? I think Rahim was his name. I mean, Sal, I think that was his name, was always real cool with his black patrons until some militant mofo’s started trouble over pictures on the wall.
Sal was way too rigid but it was his store and was providing a service at a reasonable price.
Why did the people have to burn it down, Sal didnt kill Radio Rahim. It’s like, the more you give the more people take and want, regardless of race.
Then again if Sal wouldve have just compromised and put up a picture of trane or eddie murphy the riot may have never happened.
love and truth
“since white people need constant reassurance that they are smart”
I’ve been reading these posts from the bottom up, and from what I can tell, they don’t refer to white people in general, but to white *liberals* specifically. The quote above is a good example, as well as the mention of “flyover states” in another post, Obama stickers on Prius cars, etc. This is probably why in reading these posts that I, a Blandinavian white guy, rarely feel that I am being targeted.
Almost all of the liberals I know — black, white, whatever — are obsessed with this concept of “intelligence”, constantly parroting the arrogant falsehood that liberals are smart and conservatives are not. They do not realize that these two groups merely view the world differently, which you might think would thrill the typical “open-minded, tolerant, diversity-lovin'” liberal. But because they believe they have something at stake (their “intelligence”) being threatened, all that liberal claptrap goes out the door.
As for myself, I could not care less what others think of my “intelligence”. I will say, however, that whenever a liberal questions it, it is most definitely a compliment.
Liberal, thy name is hypocrite. And a tragically vain hypocrite at that.
Oh dear Scott, I’m afraid I must agree with much of what you say, though I consider myself a liberal. The pretentious northeast liberal elitists do sometimes get on my last nerve. Many of them comment here, many who seem not to have gotten the memo that this website is poking fun at them. In that way, they just add to the fun.
My days in the Ivy League.
These are the true answers, but I modify them depending on what I sense from the questioner.
“How much work I had?” A lot! Was in class or the library pretty much full time from 1 PM Sunday to 6 PM Friday. 24/7 during midterms and finals.
“Type of students”? Highly competitive but tried not to show it, at least 90% upper middle class, professional, or wealthy background. Never met a “Gentlemen’s C” type or pothead. Most people got drunk on either Friday or Saturday night, but not both.
“The Professors”? Excellent, especially if you showed interest in helping them with their research! Very busy though, under a great deal of pressure to maintain their academic reputations and/or gain tenure. Not going to hang around for very long to chat.
“Your Dorm Room”? Identical to those at Penn State, Syracuse, etc. except in the really old stone buildings where the rooms are too small for modern students and their stuff so nobody wanted them.
“Reading Lists” Have to look it up, probably the same as everywhere else About half the students were science, engineering, or pre-med so it’s not relevant.
“SAT Score”? 1450 (old style)
What about students who attend Duke, MIT, the U.S. Naval Academy(Navy/Annapolis), the U.S. Military Academy(Army/West Point), Stanford or even CalTech. These schools are better than the likes of Brown, Cornell and even maybe Dartmouth or Columbia. What should be said to people who attended this schools?
UPenn Alum ’05
Go Quakers!
Beat Tigers!
This one is right up there with the waterfron properties.
The rest of us wouldn’t mind going to Ivy League schools. Really!
If any of you would like to send a minority student to Yale please let me know.
how about boarding school? that goes along with ivy league…
@Joe
Because you’re smart doesn’t mean that you have to believe that an IV League school is the epitome. I graduated a year early at the top of my class yet I never felt the urge to apply to an IV League. I wasn’t intimidated, I just felt like they were over hyped. Yeah, they may be the crème de la crop for some studies, but they sure as hell aren’t the best engineering schools. All you got to know is that at a job interview, a shitty resume is a shitty resume, no matter what school you went to.
So, Joe, if you really did go to an IV League school, you must understand that many of us are not laughing because we can’t do it, we’re laughing because we have a sense of humor and tolerance, which, apparently, you lack.
Afterall, I do go to the Harvard of the next best thing that’s down the street from UPenn, so I should know. (haha!)
You are retarded. And UPenn minus Wharton is worse than all of the above.
Not only are the schools of medicine, design and law in Penn better than those in Duke, MIT, but where are you getting the assumption that Penn does not have Wharton. If it is what it is, how are you going to make it dissappear?
That only comes to show how little you really know, so get your facts right before saying that Penn is a bad school (worse than Duke). Where did you go to school anyway?
UPenn Alum 08
FUCK YEAH!!!
plus your story sounds untrue. im going to an ivy league school right now. my parents are paying for it. I´m the best in my class.
Am I going to be left behind?
It is folly to declare that one school is better than another. How does one measure the success of a school? Acceptance rates? Post collegiate jobs or salaries? Quality and quantity of research produced? All of these factors depend on the people who do them, not the university they attend. The best school is the one that lets the individual student pursue their own interests with as little hindrance and as many opportunities as possible. It is individual will, not prestige, that produces results.
Also, Penn students are really ugly. Seriously.
Current Brown Student ’11
Sorry, it’s: Yale > Harvard > Princeton > Duke > Dartmouth > Columbia > Brown > Penn > Cornell
It’s tough to rank the academies, but throw in MIT, CalTech, Stanford and you get this:
Yale > Harvard > MIT > Princeton > Stanford > Duke > CalTech > Dartmouth > Columbia > Brown > Penn > Cornell
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I got a good laugh out of this.
I’m an Ivy Leaguer who now works at a land grant university that is trying hard to be a top research university. I’m also a grad student. Even in grad school here, there are so many extra credit assignments, curved grades, etc. that a stump could be an A student, so I would definitely say undergrad Ivy League school was tougher than grad state university. In one grad class, I already had an honest A, and then the curve was added, then the extra credit, so I would have had an A++. It’s ridiculous.
Also, I’ve learned not to mention my Ivy League past to other white folks. It makes them fidget and stare at the floor or ceiling. Minorities seem okay with it.
except for Yale sucks.
It’s for legacies and rich kids. So is Princeton, but at least it get’s people good jobs
it goes:
Harvard > everything else > Princeton > Stanford > MIT > Columbia > Caltech > Penn > Duke > Yale > Dartmouth
Yale is better if you want to go into consulting
Look at jobs.
Also i’m a boarding school student, an elite boarding school student , that so counts.
I can’t wait until he gets rejected. What will make it even better is the fact that you’ve been training him to believe that he’s entitled to go there. I’d bet anything he doesn’t get in….Unless you have enough money to pay for a new building on campus.
Liberal = Hypocrite
Conservative = Bigot
That just how it is.
license plate frames should be next.
really??? I thought these were hobbies and habits of Asians…
Using the term A++ makes me question your claim to being an ivy leaguer
no, the asians want your grades, SATs, extracurriculars (generally, piano and/or violin, science bowl/olympiad, math team, etc are acceptable, as well as volunteering… at hospitals so that you could gain experience in the medical field), and then they want you to tutor their two year olds in calculus.
similar, but not quite the same.
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I went to West Virginia U. It’s the Harvard of that particular city block.
haha,
soo i guess that
stanford is just the harvard of the west
and
tulane is simply the harvard of the south?
what do you call pretty girls that atttend West Virginia U.?
out-of-staters.
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Actually, Duke University is the Harvard of the South. I’m sorry you got into Tulane but not Duke.
I’ve actually heard it of Rice and Vanderbilt, but not Tulane.
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And Harvard is the Columbia of the Ivies. Yup, I just made Columbia better than Harvard! Oh yeah!! Go Lions!!!!
I’m asian and I would have to agree. My parents made me learn the violin and I’m studying to become a nurse!
No, no – Duke is the Harvard of the South.
uh, no. UNC will vehemently deny this.
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Harvard is the Harvard of the Ivies.
So true, it seems that anyone who is a complete jack ass worships preps and snobs.
This is great, and true
Haha. nice one
THE University of Virginia is the Harvard of the South.
This is so true! As a black Yale grad, I can totally relate to this. I often get the line “well, you must have gotten a good scholarship.” The line about trying to covertly discover your SAT score is also spot on.
No, Cornell has replaced Penn at the bottom Ivy rungs in the last decade. Brown is starting to fall, too. You can tell if an Ivy is getting better when the Ivy’s getting relatively uglier. Cornell is now the “hot” ivy, and its also getting a (comparitively) weaker population of students.
And unlike Princeton, Penn grads don’t believe they s**t ice cream.
You are soooo right about that. I’m a Yale undergrad and people rock Yale gear way more than even makes sense. It’s like….we know you go to Yale, you are in New Haven and you don’t look impoverished. Give it a rest.
Oh and the best is in airports. Whenever I come back to school I always see a ton of people in Hartford in their Yale hoodies pretending to be inconspicuously intelligent look.
SOME job. Oh and the Yale Club of NYC is niiiice.
eh, I go to Kenyon. I don’t know who your friend is, but we’re so white that we generally are proud of going to Kenyon and not an ivy league. Ivy leagues are corporate, man.
Things Black People Like….
Fried Chicken and not working!
Some Other Things Black People Like…
Cool Aid, Watermelons, and being late to appointments
O please. Everyone knows that Princeton doesn’t count
(Just a bunch of stupid pretentious of nobodies. No one important went there. The Kennedys were all in Harvard).
Within the Ivy League and to all Ivy Insiders, everyone knows…
For the Humanities / Liberal Arts
Yale>Harvard>Dartmouth>Columbia>Princeton>Cornell>Brown
Yale is the toughest to get into for Whites and Asians. They try so hard to recruit black & latino.
Harvard is impossible for anyone to get into except for blacks and latinos unless they have a political family connection or are child prodigies.
Dartmouth is for all the rich white WASPs who lost out their “rightful” thrones at Harvard and Yale.
Columbia is for all the GLBT, Jewish, international and metropolitan crowd.
Princeton is for the dumb but rich, snobbish and arrogant.
Cornell is for the all the poor smart people of all colors, who saved their money up 3 generations for their first Ivy League grandchild.
Brown’s for beavers and JFK Jr. That we all know.
O please. Everyone knows that Princeton doesn’t count
(Just a bunch of stupid pretentious of nobodies. No one important went there. The Kennedys were all in Harvard).
Within the Ivy League and to all Ivy Insiders, everyone knows…
For the Humanities / Liberal Arts
Yale>Harvard>Dartmouth>Columbia>Princeton>Cornell>Brown
Yale is the toughest to get into for Whites and Asians. They try so hard to recruit black & latino.
Harvard is impossible for anyone to get into except for blacks and latinos unless they have a political family connection or are child prodigies.
Dartmouth is for all the rich white WASPs who lost out their “rightful” thrones at Harvard and Yale to minorities.
Columbia is for all the GLBT, Jewish, international and metropolitan crowd.
Princeton is for the dumb but rich, snobbish and arrogant.
Cornell is for the all the poor smart people of all colors, who saved their money up 3 generations for their first Ivy League grandchild.
Brown’s for beavers and JFK Jr. That we all know.
That would be Kool-Aid….you obviously are not an Ivy Leaguer
wow this sounds exactly like my college experience, except I went to Rice, which has nowhere near tthe Ivy league prestigue, even though it’s sometimes called the “Harvard of the South”
Ivy Leaguer doesn’t even know the full list of Ivy Schools
are you serious?
You sound like an idiot
Tufts is actually just considered little.
That person is bitter about not being able to get into the Ivy League.
that’s not funny. you’re buying into a stereotype that slave owners used to keep black people down.
I believe you man.
White people love to use scholarships and the idea of affirmative action to defend their own underachievement in academics.
If a non white person ever becomes succesful its because they were helped.
anyone notice the tokenism going on this picture? its so wrong.
they have some black people in their just to make them feel diverse when in reality most ivy league schools are dominated by whites.
Haha, good call! Penn ’08 baby!
…though a couple of my fellow non-whites failed out of an athletic scholarship, AA didn’t work for them!
Work harder than the majority for it. Ride the back of the white man and know when to get off.
Cute, if just a tad spiteful. I attended a public school – Angelo State University – and I’m not defensive about it and I don’t have an inferiority complex. I suspect, however, that the writer has some issues to work through.
The real measure of Ivy League worthiness and effectiveness are the networking opportunities its schools provide and the academic excellence for which they are rightfully noted. Unfortunately, some people take an Ivy League education too far and turn it into a social club circuit. Those unfamiliar with it (or insecure about themselves) turn it into a point of ridicule.
These schools are all centers of academic excellence – but so are many public institutions like, for instance, Angelo State University (San Angelo, Texas). However, an Ivy League school like Harvard is more exclusive about who it admits and cost many times as much as a school like ASU.
If your family is well-connected, and your bright future includes potential employment at the State Department, a prestigious law firm, or a Fortune 500 company, then an Ivy League school is worth the coin. It’s even worth the coin if admission to such a coin is simply a matter of personal excellence. However, if you’re not well connected or your vision of personal excellence does not require an Ivy League education, then your Harvard Degree is simply a peice of paper. That paper won’t be worth the financial investment if you land a job with, say, a probation department.
Scholarships, parental contribution, and student loans, roughly in that order.
What a lot of people don’t realise is that, while the “sticker price” of an Ivy League education is very high, half the students are getting substantial need-based financial aid so that they don’t have to pay anywhere near as much. Adding up my parent’s contribution and my own student loans, I paid about 1/4 sticker.
Of course, that still leaves half the students whose parents are rich enough to pay full price – and by rich enough to pay full price, I mean a minimum of $180,000 a year take-home pay.
nope, I know this for a fact, black people love fried chicken, and it is true for the most part do not enjoy working/refuse to do it, full time, for any length of time
You are correct in your description of how the IQ distributions of different racial groups currently appear when plotted on the same graph.
The differences were even more dramatic 30 years ago.
The differences will likely be much smaller 30 years hence.
IQ isn’t anywhere near as genetically-determined as many people seem to believe; the average IQ of the entire population has been rising ever since the tests were first introduced. They have to keep renormalizing it to keep 100 as the average.
Thus, it would be unwise to believe that the observed differences in IQ between racial groups reflect any kind of genetic advantage; it is far more likely that they are the product of the different social and cultural environments experienced by the members of said groups.
Really? I would have thought that Brown would have higher name recognition, given how The Simpsons likes to rip on it.
Bostic, you might want to check the statistics you claim to be citing. Yale, for instance, is 70% white, which is about the same as the broader US population:
http://www.yale.edu/oir/factsheet.html#University-wide%20Enrollment%20by%20Ethnicity
Given this, I would suggest that terms like “genocidal” and “ethnic cleansing” might be a little too strong.
hmm… So Einstein was dumb?
SMH that “Ivy Leaguer” forgot Penn…
’06 🙂
And this article couldn’t be more true. I actually had a person tell me that their school was being considered for admission into the Ivy League, you know, in an attempt to prove to me that their education was as “superior” as mine.
Sad, but true.
As a black person, I must concur. Fried chicken is delicious and not working — seeing as how my tech business is doing so damn well — is preferred.
😀
I remember meeting this African-American girl in a bar a few years ago. We got into one of those intro kind of conversations where she got around to telling me she had just finished college and how she had gone to Brown. And with that pronouncement she looked at me, lingering on the pronouncement with a certain expectation of response…waiting.
Now, I’m not American or even from the same continent, we weren’t drinking in the US and I feel no need to know the inner-workings of the US higher education system. I’d never heard of Brown. I only know of Princeton, Harvard and Yale because of their prominence in the pop-Culture output of TV, books and movies and because one woefully stupid product of those schools was George Double-ya. What the hell is Brown? Is it the new Black? I prefer Green.
And do you think if I told this arrogant piece of meat I graduated from a university with the same name as the capital city of my country (Australia) she could name it? And the answer isn’t Sydney. Ignorance and arrogance. God Bless the U.S.
hahahahaha
but um, im from america, and ive known the capitols canberra since 6th grade… just letting you know, not trying to brag or anything
There is, no doubt, an extent to which one might make qualitative distinctions similar to those described above, but these distinctions rarely hold up university-wide.
In other words, the superiority of various universities can, in my opinion, only be assessed department by department. I mean, there is no doubt that if you are interested in, lets say, Gender Studies, you would go to UC Berkeley to work with Judith Butler, or maybe to Columbia or NYU. You would not, at least *most* would not, go to Princeton or to UPenn.
If you are interested in Continental Philosophy, many of the Ivies would, again, perhaps not be the best choice. Indiana or Stanford, maybe even Fordham, might all be better fits, given the increasingly analytic drift of the Ivy Philosophy Departments.
Likewise (and these lists can go on and on forever), the Duke University Religion Department/Divinity School has an infinitely more esteemed faculty, is far more selective in terms of admission, and is producing more game-changing knowledge than is Harvard. Princeton’s program in Religion is probably a close second, although Notre Dame has an immensely impressive program.
All that to say, the idea that the superiority of any of these major universities can be easily charted out on one spectrum only betrays the ignorance of the one holding such a position.
yes every white person in my school dreams of going to the east coast to study something that has no use in the real world[except if you want to teach or write a book] (Philosophy, English, History, etc) and then I shatter their dreams by pointing out that asians score better on the SATS and get the minority card and are far more interesting than them.
should be “more interesting than they” – clearly you’re not Asian
than is gaining new use as a preposition and thus takes the object form “them.” it’s called language change.
ggpwned.
The Ivy League actually got started as a sports conference for the 8 schools that are in it. Academics had relatively little to to with the concept.
That being said, the Ivy League has some of the best business, law, pre-med, and science degrees out there, all of which are useful for more than teaching or writing a book. In addition, Cornell has one of the best engineering programs in the U.S., it has the premier school for anyone going into hospitality (sounds kind of stupid to me, but they wind up making lots of money). That’s just one example of what the Ivies have besides English and History, etc.
If anything it sounds like you (lillian) have the complex about where you are going. I bet my SAT scores are right up with yours and that doesn’t inherently make me any more or less interesting than you.
BTW: Being asian isn’t a big boost in admissions. It puts you on almost even footing with whites, which is to say behind everyone else.
Bill Nye went to Cornell. He trumps everyone that you’ve listed. From your logic, Cornell is the best.
Sounds like you’ve got a bit of superiority complex. The day you graduate from college (with either an undergrad or graduate degree), how successful you are depends somewhat on your connections, a great deal on how hard you work, and a bit on luck. Where you went to school probably gave you some connections, but it doesn’t guarantee that you will be successful in life.
I went to a small state school — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire — for my undergraduate degree. I recently experienced a burning urge to mix with the finer white members of society (being a lower middle class Lit major I naturally have this feeling). I plan to attend graduate school gaining a Phd in that all important subject: English. In preperation for my introduction to elite white society I have been speaking with my eyes half-closed whilst dropping Derrida/Zizek/Butler references. But alas, I feel my state school background may be a wound not easily mended. Will I ever be accepted into elite white society? What advice do you, wise members of that privileged circle, have to offer to a poor proletarian like myself?
Perhaps the most honest and well-phrased commentary on this thread.
when I attended Yale in the middle 60’s, there was certainly the WASP contingent visibly present and hegemonous; however, there was no question, at least to me, that the Jews, the Asians, the Blacks, minority et al were in every way Elis– they earned it, they wore the “badge”
No one is hiring, IF they are hiring it is based on nepotism, cronyism, right last name, and buddy system. hence, why spend thousands to attend a “college” whereby you learn nothing, waste time, learn nothing practical, and are basically a highly educated in nonsense (art, social studies, philosophy, nanochemistry, ?!?!?-basically colleges give professors job because they cannot make it in the real world, they have no translatable skills–similar to govt. lackies) office secretary.
this can work to your advantage. just say that you were forced to attend a local school because you wanted to help out the local economy, you were committed to helping the elderly couple from the squash stand at the farmers market, and you had been tutoring the black kid from the inner city as part of a big brother program for too long leave him hanging. also your veggie-powered mercedes wouldnt function properly in the cold northeast and you fell in love with your school’s art deco/ vintage architecture…
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE, who only WASTE their money on things like Ivy League schools.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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We were constantly told that Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University was the Harvard of aviation.
Didnt know dollar bill went to yale…
Hahahahaha….LOL! All of the angst-ridden whining and d*ck-measuring below only PROVES that the author of this piece is 100% correct!
For all of you bitter whiners/losers who didn’t get into a top-notch school [Ivy, Stanford, M.I.T., et al] *and* who say things like:
“Yeah, some [insert minority group of choice] kid from my high school got into [school you’re still bitter about getting rejected from], and I was totally smarter than they were! They ONLY got in b/c they were [minority group -or- female], and I cry myself to sleep each night because of it!”
…need to not only get a life, but also get a clue about the college acceptance system.
Colleges look for *well-rounded* students, and as such, look at the *whole person* when making decisions. Sure, maybe you got the same S.A.T. score as that [minority] student, but you have no idea if they wrote an essay that was pure art, or if their letters of recommendation said that they walked on water, or if they were, quietly perhaps, engaged in a ton of leadership/volunteer/community/extra-curricular activities while simultaneously, perhaps, working a part-time job to support their families, or maybe caring for a family member with cancer, or…doing a million truly worthwhile things you probably weren’t.
While I admit that every school has its share of “admissions mistakes”, for the most part, these colleges know what they are doing when they look at the whole student and decide to accept/reject…
…and the fact that ANYONE would be immature enough to whine and desperately come up with a million different reasons why their [in their opinion] “highly-qualified” butt did not end up in an Ivy lecture hall….
…only proves that the admissions committee that rejected you saw you for the petty, shallow, immature loser you are, and MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE IN REJECTING YOU.
Now…please get on with your life and find some other reason to feel victimized.
People who don’t take responsibility for their lives are pathetic. And yes, true to the name of the web-site, most of you tend to be white… the least-victimized group of people in history are the ones that whine the most when everything isn’t handed to them on a silver platter! HA HA HA HA HA….
* to clarify, I’m not bashing non-Ivy schools — there really are some incredible schools out there, and the value of an education is truly in the hands of the student, regardless of where they go to school…and heck, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are both college drop-outs, so there!
I only take issue with the spoiled, narcissistic folks who INSIST that they “should” have gotten into a school… especially if they claim that an “unqualified” minority or woman got in when they “should” have.
As a side note, many of the Ivies have amazing financial aid, so the other “reason” I hear alot: “Oh, I WOULD have gone to Harvard, but I couldn’t afford it,” is also b.s.
*fin*
He went to Princeton I think.
My school was called the Harvard of the North. Shame on us. I blame the white people before me. Now that I write for http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com I have an even deeper understanding of Ivy Leagues although the most popular post remains escort services…go figure!
Stop Jim, you’re being silly.
It’s tough enough trying to find work as it is; how do you imagine your employment prospects would fare if you had to compete against the mob of genius professors you’d like to see dumped into the “real world” job market?
More brilliant minds tied up chasing a deeper understanding of the human condition (and other such nonsense) means fewer applicants you have to outshine for a given construction management position. Or welding gig, or whatever eminently practical skill it is that you’re blessed with – and that, BTW, nobody is willing to pay you to actually practice.
P.S. : What better place to acquire cronies (read, “lay the groundwork for your network of professional references”) than at yer local university ?!?!?
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Actually, they give science professors jobs because they make the university boatloads of cash. Any time a professor gets a research grant, part of that grant is marked for “overhead”, and goes to the university. For a million-dollar cancer research grant, the university can get several hundred thousand in pocket, and can use it to do whatever they want. That’s where ‘research faculty’ come from – they win so many big grants and bring in so much overhead that the university lets them off just about every responsibility in order to keep the grant money rolling in.
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To get a job is simple: have your school or college diploma and other credentials ready, the job interview and that employer ask you a ton of questions. 12 years of schooling and 4 years of “optional” college for one hour of being scrutinized. Good luck getting a job when the recession is over, and may you enjoy working for life (hope to retire). +
Forget the east coast, I wanna leave the west coast and rather not go to the “third coast” known for hurricanes or humidity. I’m headed to the Rockies, less rainy than the Northwest and cooler than the southwest. I heard much of the Midwest (west of the Mississippi, not the rust belt) and Central states are less affected by the recession. Northern whites won’t stop moving to the south, preferably in the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia. Why not go further west where the recession is most felt…until you hit Texas, the “best economy” state until recently. +
Ivy Leaguers check your family tree to see you’re black or American Indian enough to get in too! I have no plans for the UC or CSU systems here in broke/bankrupt California. My Mom’s relatives suggested NOT to move in Oklahoma, though it seems so nice right now. Utah has BYU known by the LDS church, where doctrine said American Indians are the lost tribe of Israel or California is getting “gay” except I’m not.+
High schools and public education in many states still use “busing” and other ways to enforce integration to make sure a single black kid goes to the nearest primarily white school. Interestingly, many formerly all-white public schools are now the ones with mostly black or Latino, and in the Palm Springs area, nearly all public schools except one or two in Palm Desert do not have a white majority. Hispanic “non-white” pupils are 90% of Coachella, 70% of Palm Springs and 60% of Desert Sands school districts. However, most private and church-run schools can be 95% white, but tuition can cost $5000 a year per student. +
…and Stanford is the “Harvard” of the West, where East Asians are two-fifths of the collegiate student body. The university admission staff and policies are regarded by whites as the “affirmative action mafia”, but most of the discrimination lawsuits at Stanford came from Asian-Americans. +
Wealthy white kids have condos, apartments or rental homes, don’t they??? How white can you get? Let’s live in dorms, smoke weed and oversleep, be later for class and get a bad SAT. Oh well, we inherited our parents’ money. xD
Liberal+Conservative=US government. No problem, you may well emigrate to Canada, Europe, Africa, Mexico, Asia or any place else. The French government places anyone born of a French parent on the first-priority list to become citizens, though is America where everyone wants to be? +
Feeling Great in ’98! I missed out of my high school reunion last July, besides my only friend left from the class said hardly anyone came (not many former friends) and it sure was pricey: it costed $98 to attend. Palm Desert High is the Beverly Hills wanna-be, and there was a teen drama show called “Hidden Palms” on the CW…that’s the million-dollar home gated community right by my high school! I lived 8 miles from that school, since Mom worked in Palm Desert and want me to go to that school not the one in Indio and the new one in La Quinta opened after my freshmen year. +
Alright, what’s my town’s claim to fame: Indio Cal. is home town of actress Vanessa Marcil, childhood home of singer Alan O’Day, the high school where director Cameron Crowe and actor Marco Sanchez went, actress Anna Nicole Smith had a winter home, activist Sam Maestas joined the United farm workers when Cesar Chavez came by in the 1960s, and sports athletes Ed White (football), Tony Reagins (baseball), little-league record holder Derix Baxter (see the opening of “Jerry Mcguire”) and Jeff Webb (football) spent the snowless winters plus the hot summers here. +
Minna, what does the double-A stand for? I love it when people SPAAM on here. GO AZTECS! ANGELS! and DUCKS!Aztecs is the Palm Desert high school mascot. +
The former team mascot was “Indians” but changed to the Cardinals sometime in the 1980s by the sports team board. Stanford was afraid of having a “racist” slur team nickname. Another college sports mascot UC Santa Cruz 40 miles away got rid of “Brown Senors” relating to Mexicans, and became the Banana Slugs.
University of Southern California, is the ultimate dream for a West coast jock to attend, because Pepperdine was 1980s and Stanford, UC Berkeley or CalTech are too silly, hippy, nerdy for them. USC is located a few blocks each way from mostly Black, Hispanic, Asian and “Byzantine” Greek areas. What’s wrong with being white in a diverse neighborhood? Anyways, this is South L.A.’s own gentrification central. +
Settle down, Caps Lock man…and you misspelled “Racist” wrong, might well get rid of the extra ‘S’ (yea, we all make mistakes). The USC campus I referred to was nicknamed Byzantine for the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics held in nearby Olympic coliseum. It was sad to see the Rams and Raiders NFL teams stopped playing there. White people don’t seem to like football, but the local gangs (Chicanos) had Raider jackets and caps. Blods and Crips adapted other colors, besides they are black, and kill each other regularly until the L.A. Riots and gang truce the following May 1992. +
Nope, there’s a rising tide of new high-IQ, elite and jock students in University of Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas University and (gasp) University of Oklahoma. This is the college sports/minor league region where locals cheer on the football, basketball and baseball teams, where Tulsa Cyclones, OSU Cowboys and Oral Roberts Crusaders have more fans than any major league city team dreams of. +
Tell that to Duke, University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill and Wake Forest, all in the Research Triangle of Durham-Raleigh, and the Triad of Winston-Salem/Greensboro NC. The 9th most populated state in the US, North Carolina is being called the East Coast’s California (sorry Florida) and this state’s population grew 8 times since 1970. +
Claremont? Oh yea, the midpoint between L.A. (USC and UCLA) and Redlands (the church-ran colleges). Nobody said UC Irvine, CSU Fullerton, Long Beach state and San Diego’s 4 higher-education colleges. People my income level can go to UC Riverside, CSU San Bernardino or head 300 miles east to Arizona State, Univ. of Arizona and Univ. of Nevada in Las Vegas. The problem is, Cal. state residents pay less going to college in their state, but California is too pricey to live in…and whites claim illegal immigrants (Mexicans) and Asians (esp. Chinese) fills up the campuses in California. +
LoL! Whites can attend a Bureau of Indian Affairs owned college! The Sherman Indian School of Riverside (closed as of 2009) and DQ University in Davis, west of Sacramento. The state of California has a Deaf-student majority school in Riverside, wants to expand to the former Sherman campus.
Blind-students have a college on the campus of CSU L.A.
Is it P-C to still have Black-American Colleges like Tuskegee, Ala. or Prairie View, Tex.? and what about women’s colleges (private) from the time universities are gender-segregated before the Co-Ed era became uniform in the 1960’s? Jews have their own Yeshivas or Jewish-themed universities like north of New York and one in Cincinnati are well-known. +
Rice is the Harvard of the Gulf Region, you know.
Hey, i went to Penn which is Ivy League. And has the best undergraduate business school anywhere.
Penn is the temple of West Philadelphia!
I can relate to some of these, but I live in Madison, AL, so a large majority of your posts are quite the opposite for me.
For instance:
It’s a predominantly White town.
A vast majority of those Whites are conservative Republicans.
Plus, at my school, if you don’t go to an Ivy League, a college that is “basically an Ivy League,” or Alabama or Auburn, then yeah. People will give you that fake, “Wait. Your child is going where? Oh, well. That’s nice, I guess.”
Ah well.
The ones I can relate to are scarily accurate, though.
This is definitely a post I love to re-read. Giving them a chance to explain why their school is superior is classic. I write for http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com and private / ivy league / elite schools are definitely top of list!
I like spending time with little boys…
I have to say, out of all of the entries that I have read on this site so far, this one is the most accurate. I mean, it is EXACTLY right, word for word, right down to trying to guess their SAT scores and how hard they worked. The sad thing is…I’m the white person.
I like spending time with little boys too. And I love to fuck their dogs.
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The Ivy League is a “must have” for white people, to carry a college bachelors’ degree from a place like Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton or Columbia. I also thought any university degree is a must, esp. the community colleges are full of students strive to have a job above minimum-wage in an economy when jobs aren’t plentiful. Good luck to you all. +
I have to say, these things mostly go for white american people. I’m dutch so we don’t even have the ivy league and a lot of other stuff on the site. Still genius and funny though.
I know, totally right?! White people are so retarded with their respect for history and education! What a load of crap! Those schools have been around for a long time and that’s all, they just have stuff like nice classrooms and brilliant professors who devote their lives to their subjects and try to instill a sense of belonging to a world and community and history of scholarship. It’s just for rich people which is why most of them give only need-based scholarships. It’s so retarded how white people love really reading great philosophy and getting advanced degrees in things like astrophysics and geochemistry and medicine. Rich people just like feeling superior with their devotion to learning and trying to remain rich. You don’t see poor people trying to be rich do you?! Of course not, it’s only rich people who like that stuff, nice stuff, the kind of stuff anyone with money is going to like.
Uch, this website is so completely retarded.
No one suggested that only white or rich people liked ivy league schools. Merely that white or rich people DO like them.
“It hardly matters, and the only people who will be impressed are insecure snobs.”
You forgot to mention your future employer. 😛
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Asians also get into Ivy League schools and prepar’ their whole life for it and are second richest and smartest to white people. That’s why white people are so ‘sessed with Asians. Cuz they aint stoopid. They even let them have their own guddam Chinatowns. But they have to suppress ’em once in a while so they don’t get too pow’rful, like dem Human Rights movements against China’s One Child Policy (like its a bad thing der’s too many of ’em billiion chinese runnin around fucken etch other)and lie about Ford being the number one selling car in ‘merica when it’s the cotton pickin’ Toyota. But they dont like dark skin Asians like Induns because they look like neggers.
LOL Cornell University
I am a dumbass I meant Bucknell….people there are essentially the people that did not get into Cornell
lol Georgia Tech?
lol, you are one funny dude.
not an ivy league school…
True. I realized that this site is largly about trendy liberal people. However, it accurately reflects them. Every now and then, I feel like the author is looking right into me. Its a great laugh. But they don’t make me feel ashamed. I’m OK with laughing at myself.
Michaela, that is why he speaks about the “wrong type” and “right type” of white people. What you are talking about is outside this website’s satire, as it’s the “wrong type”.
Nobody tell him that Asians already earn more on average than whites, he might flip out.
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Michaela:
“It’s a predominantly White town.
A vast majority of those Whites are conservative Republicans.”
Ah…you don’t know “White” People…you know “NASCARs”. If you were somewhere like Kittery,Maine or Bloomington, Indiana, you would be surrounded by “Hockeys”.
“Plus, at my school, if you don’t go to an Ivy League, a college that is “basically an Ivy League,” or Alabama or Auburn, then yeah. People will give you that fake, “Wait. Your child is going where? Oh, well. That’s nice, I guess.””
You REALLY need to study your surrounding culture.
Among both the “NASCARs” and the “Hockeys”, the only relevance of post-secondary educational institutions is what Conference they play in and what Division the NCAA has assigned them to.
The next time that the University of Alabama football team plays Auburn University, (or the University of Ohio plays Ohio State University), please TRY to pay closer attention.
And BTW, the most prestigious college a “NASCAR” can attend is one of the United States Service Academies.
If you get an appointment to one of these, you are forever the “King Shiznit” among the Bubbas…unless you get blown to atoms by an IED somewhere.
In that case, you’ll attain local immortality of the kind only an actual NASCAR driver killed in a race at Daytona Speedway could aspire to.
Haha! My son goes to an Ivy League school and although I am white, he is not AND he’s not even American…this is funny as Shit!
Sadly this post is not funny. Example: Penn. There are more racial minorities at penn than white people. They scare me when i have to buy coffee at night.
Sadly, you do not have a son.
A true standard in comedy blogging.
Another great site is http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
What? He’s talking about the deomographic of the school, you dumbass not of the area in which the school is located. There are obviously more white people than racial minorities at Penn.
There should be a comma after dumbass. Refer to the grammar page for further explanation of why I can’t help myself. 😛
Uh, I go to Penn, and there are tonnnns of white students. The Jewish population is huge.
HOWEVER, they love the fact that they are in West Illadel. The white people find that they now have gained “street cred” because they are in a “ghetto area”
This site is killer diller.
Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
My alma matter was the Harvard of state penitintiaries everywhere.
i majorred in spelling, grammer.
Actually Harvard students are far less assholish than BU. They don’t have anything to prove but BU …should be changed to PEEU.
I think if this article was written 20-30 years ago, it would be accurate, however, while Ivy League schools are obviously still white-dominated, there are large contingencies of different ethnicities. I would have focused this article on the new-found love of “small, liberal arts colleges.” Now those are very white.
Here’s another laugh: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
This is hilarious and absolutely rings true to me, as a student of a small liberal arts college. You shouldn’t have to explain why a joke is funny, but I will. It’s funny because people at Harvard aren’t that asseholish. I was just abroad and there were 2 Yale students and one from Harvard. They were discussing how everyone else in the program was far more assholish and arrogant than anyone they’d ever met at their school. It’s funny because people from small liberal arts colleges will make the arguments listed above to show why their education was far superior. For instance, I have the freedom to design my own major, don’t have any prerequisites, and get narrative evaluations in lieu of grades. That is why I am getting a far better education than could be received if my parents were able to pay my way to an Ivy League school, which they couldn’t, since I am middle-class. And that is what I tell myself and others. This is also why I don’t mind that UCLA rejected me. It’s funny because this isn’t really about why white people like Ivy League schools, but why white people like to think they are better than Ivy League schools.
It’s really funny how a lot of this stuff actually happens when you talk to white people about colleges.
White people in my high school always tried to find out my SAT score when they found out i was going to MIT.
What’s also funny is that people view SAT as a judgment of intelligence when anyone can get a high score if they practice enough.
I go to Yale. Some common misconceptions:
“Ivy students are assholes.” False. I’ve actually met the nicest and down to earth people here who have accomplished tons before turning 20. It’s easy to assume that all students are rich and pretentious but that’s like assuming all students at a “party school” are all alcoholic frat boys.
“Ivy education is not worth it.” It’s worth it. Too long to explain (amazing resources, professors, mentorships, and alums) but simply unparalleled opportunities that don’t stop with the classroom. The experience of being at an Ivy, even without the education, offers a unique perspective.
“It’s expensive.” Sure it is…on paper. But financial aid covers all the cost sometime (does for me) and is the best in the country.
“It’s elite.” Partially…only on an intellectual level rather than socioeconomics or race or whatever.
Right. Because there are just ton’s of black and hispanic people in the Ivy League.
I have a big pile in my basement of the bodies of people who suggested I should have applied to Harvard.
Why would minorities, such as Asians, be more obsessed with something they have no hand in creating? Minorities will always be excluded from the majority of society, and I’m glad as they have no business assimilating to our European or European American cultures. They can learn the language to communicate, but assimilation beyond the language only damages the uniqueness of individual cultures; it doesn’t enrich it, and the same can be said of miscegenation which is damaging especially from a purely scientific perspective.
So Juan Paulo, let’s see, your parents are from Mexico and you are from Spain?
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Also. Include Oxbridge and “The Arts.” Also, tweed jackets.
Please! We all know that Harvard is the Hillsdale of the East.
There are plenty of people (like me) who qualified for ADMISSION to a highly competitive school but were not qualified enough to receive substantial amounts of financial aid there.
NYU thought I could attend but only wanted to give me $16K in financial aid and loans; I’d have to come up with at least $20K a year on my own. My parents said they could pay about $5K per year. Perhaps a more stellar candidate would have gotten a better package from the school but in my case income was still a problem, and I settled for a decent in-state school instead.
Would like to know what the ethnicity of the author is….
It is funny how so many different peoples from all over the world want to come to the USA, a nation conceived and mostly built by white people. These white people you so easily mock are also responsible for the liberal laws that allow you to be here.
Nowhere else on earth has a dominant class given over as much opportunity and given as much away in general as White America has.
And you produce this stinking pile of monkey excrement ?
You should really have praised White America. We still run this country, and attitudes such as yours are giving many people reasons to rethink the liberal agenda of the last 40 years.
Enjoy it while you can… It will not last.
I know exactly why I went to my school, Ohio State University. Parties and size with a decent enough education, though it only gets so much applause for basically being the biggest thing in the region. I’ve met my demons for not trying for at least a private school but I know it’ll be a decent enough education and alll I have to do is actually work for stuff.
hey idiot. the author is white. he’s poking fun at himself.
dude the authors white -_- smh
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The truth is, yes other races people are smarter than white people.
Stop feel threatening about it.
If you get accepted to an Ivy League, that means you have some sort of ways to work it out.
If you don’t, only means you are not smart enough.
Ivy League and Oxford. Oxford people are practically ashamed to admit where they went to school (out of fear of seeming a braggart); and I have discerned two Harvard types – those that seem like they NEED to have gone to Harvard; but also those who view Harvard attendance as laying upon them a life-long obligation to serve humanity. Sadly it seems that the first Harvard group is the one that gets noticed the most often. They second Harvard group is usually too busy actually working at their respective callings.
Yes yes, I’m with you, Jake. Should we whities have to stand for this monkey excrement any longer? Heck no, techno is what I like to say, as a public-school-educated white. God bless Amurrica. Praise George Bush.
Actually, Barack Obama runs this country… I mean your country
Actually, within a few years Harvard will be considered the ‘Stanford of the East.’ That school has been running laps around Harvard since its founding in the late 1880s. Give Stanford a few more decades so it can spin out more tech-billionaire alums and the large contributions to its endowment that entails and it will be top dog in the country. And no, I did not graduate from Stanford nor have I ever even been there. I just admire an institution that was able to make so many leaps and bounds and has contributed so much to humanity in so short a time (the same goes for Caltech).
And yet, Harvard is still ranked as the #1 University in the USA by Newsweek magazine
I’m a public-school educated white person and I still think Bush was a terrible decision on our country’s part.
in terms of contributions to humanity, Rockefeller U in NYC is better than Caltech and Stanford and you’ve never heard of it
Duke, UVA, UNC, Vandy, William & Mary are all excellent southern schools
Don’t forget about Washington and Lee and the University of Richmond
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That’s hilarious… I went to both (Bucknell B.S. Cornell M. Eng.) and you’re absolutely right!
Actually, a way to really freak people out is to talk about the Ivy Plus conference, which is actually what the consortium is today in admissions, if not athletics. Ivy Plus is the Ivy League plus MIT and Stanford. Every May, admissions officers from Ivy Plus meet at one of the schools. They also share each other’s Early Admissions/Decisions lists, for the schools that still have those options.
Rice?
is nyu the harvard of the east village?
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Because white peoples’ heads aren’t big enough. Is someone dealing with a superiority complex? I think so.
I know how people going to schools like Wake Forest like to say “We’re the Ivy League of .”
My response: Ivy League of : For those of us who couldn’t get into the real thing. After all, clearly getting their ass kicked by Cornell’s engineering program is a privilege that got denied to them.
Poor angry white soul.Your fuuuny.
You could certainly compare Villanova to Holy Cross or maybe Providence, but no sane person would claim that it’s in the same league as ND or Georgetown.
You guys do realize that the term ivy league is related to sports? and nothing else, only people who didn’t have the luxury of growing up in Boston, or NE at all think the ivy league = smart kids. LOL I went to fucking harvard business school with nothing but D’s on my math scores all through high school ROFL.
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No you didn’t
What do I own that is funny? Kidding, you’re beautiful and your grammar is sexy. Also, whites have no souls.
I one day hope to traverse the harrowed halls of Harvard and call myself a Phoenix, a very rich Phoenix.
Must be Penn.
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Amazingly enough, this is the sad truth. People can not meet presumably smart people or they will start to compare their intelligence with the smart people’s intelligence. They will wonder what’s so good about these smart people and will look at them with envy! 🙂
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Besides the Ivies NYU or USC are popular by rich hipsters and/or yuppies. If they were real hard core and serious about academics they would look at certain LAS and universities like the University of Chicago or Northwestern.
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this is actually completely true. this one white girl i am friends with came up in my mind immediately omg. she was deferred by harvard and rejected, but got into a really good public school. another person we were talking to’s older brother got into university of chicago and as i was congratulating her and her family, this other girl got super defensive and adamantly defended her sister’s public school, saying it was nearly impossible to get into out of state.
oh my god im dying and cringing at the sheer candor of this post.
I plan to attend the Harvard of Cambridge. Real talk though, Hampshire for life
You are the stupid one for thinking that she is ignorant because she doesn’t know the capital of Australia. Being intelligent is not the same a memorizing a bunch of useless/irrelevant facts. I doubt there are a lot of field medalists out there that know the capital of Azerbaijan.
My friend Schmalison thinks that UPenn is an Ivy League school and won’t stop talking about how cool it is to be an Ivy League grad. Can someone please correct her and tell us the truth about this school?
Thank you
Alright: UPenn is an Ivy League school. Which means she’s right about that, but wrong about needing everyone to know it.
Juan-Paulo: Hold on. If Asians are being excluded, how come there’s a larger percentage of Asians at Ivies than within the rest of the United States? Oh, and the demographics I’m citing separate “International” from Asian. From my personal experience at a top school of similar caliber to the ivies (Uchicago), I can tell you that they seem to be more obsessed. In fact, as an African American, I can tell you I was much more obsessed to get out of the hood and go to a top school than nearly all of my white peers. I got into Dartmouth and Columbia, but I got the most aid from Uchicago, so that’s where I’m going.
Now, the second part I have to address – why would it be a bad thing for other cultures to assimilate? Various ethnic groups from different racial backgrounds have assimilated with other ethnicities since the dawn of mankind. That’s how you have differences within single races. The cultures blend and spread from nation to nation. It’s kinda like the circle of life. It’s happened for a long time, and it’s going to keep on happening. You may may have Asian and black blood in you, consider yourself completely white, and not even know it. There’s a reason some people of ‘completely European’ ancestry look really black, and it’s not just the natural phenotype deviation within a population, it’s because of ancestral miscegenation. As a black man, I have Irish, Native American, Mongolian, and African ancestry. Culturally, I was raised Baptist with some Native American traditions. There’s nothing wrong with that – and as long as people have sex with people they find attractive, there will be more people with various assimilated cultural backgrounds and mixtures of ethnic backgrounds. To say that miscegenation and cultural assimilation are damaging the uniqueness of cultures is ludicrous. My culture and racial identity as a black man is strong, and my ancestry does nothing to harm it.
or that Asians have higher IQ’s on average than whites.
Didn’t get into Harvard, but I got into Columbia. I couldn’t afford it with the financial aid, but I didn’t need to, because Uchicago also through in a merit scholarship and made it ridiculously cheap. Anyways, I get that stuff you talked about, the white people saying “but I’m smarter than him” all the time from kids in my high school cohert. They didn’t realize that I had a higher ACT (34) score, a 4th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and a ton of other things that basically made the difference. Yeah, I wasn’t valedictorian, or salutatorian, but the valedictorian is humble enough to admit that I was the smartest in our graduating class, and I’m close friends with him because he’s always showed that maturity and humility. No one else went to a top 10 school in my graduating class, and I’m the first in the entire 50 year history of my school to get into any of the three schools I mentioned from my high school, but white people will be white people, and those jealous haters will always blame my acceptance on the color of my skin. For me, my brothers from high school and my crew are proud of me, and I set an example of how blacks can also succeed in that racist environment.
those stats seems to ring true in my experience– as a white female (non jew) i was in the minority of many of my seminars etc. at columbia.
Calling the Ivy League that “racist environment” is rich with irony. It was founded by white men, but they are now the least desireable students. The most beloved are asians and jews, who make up less than ten percent of the US population, but over 50% of the Ivy League students. So, it is racist, but not in the way you meant it.
Dear Schmarlos,
You are wrong, and your friend Schmalison is right about one thing. Penn is an Ivy League school. However, talking about it and bragging about how cool it is to be an Ivy League graduate is not cool at all.
When I was at Harvard, I didn’t know *any* white (or Asian) people who were not either salutatorian or valedictorian. And they also were president of the drama club, high school foot ball captain, TKD black belts. But there were a number of blacks and latinos who were not. If you think that your tkd 4th degree other ‘other things’ made a difference, you are kidding yourself. It was the color of your skin. If you were white, you would not have been admitted. Period.
Schmarlos Schmaavedra: I’m a student at Cornell University, and in (kind of) the Band here….Your friend is right when she says that U of Penn is an Ivy League….But the truth is….as any Big Red Band member will tell you…
PENN SUCKS!
🙂
(this is in a good humored rivalry not meant to actually be offensive)
You sound like an African American, not a black man from Africa. So your genes from white men sleeping with your great grandmother gave you the intelligence, the opportunity to succed. Not to mention the minds of these white men built the schools and the country your in. You hate half of your own self, labels like white and black do not apply to you, your a mallatto, just like I am. Asians have higher IQ’s, so, no black Africans exist with IQ’s over 120. The hablogroup ofthe northmen are not afriad to admit the hablogroup of the east Asian is more capible in mathematics, but Africans are the least able of them all if where just saying things to be rude.
I am sure you worked very hard on your degree, why does it matter if you are more or less then others, whyall the competetion? You did the best for you, bravo.
The Ivy League is for lawyers, business men, and politicans. I went to community college, and the school I attend is no big name, so what? Yale lectures are free online, anyone can be as educated as they want to be today. Books are .99 cents on Amazon too! Carl Sagan is .99 cents on Amazon, Stephen Jay Gould is .99 cents on Amazon. Big name schools are not the future of intelligence, it can happen anywhere in todays YouTube age, 2005-????.
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except…. most people who go to ivy league schools are white… it seems like what is important is to point out the most pathetic and funny white person version. In which case, as a white person I should probably see every black person as a cross between OJ and Chapelle, Latin the illegal immigrant convict down the street and Gabrielle Iglesias, Asian Kim Jong Il and… well there is no such thing as a funny asian that I know of, either successful or pathetic, no wiggle room. It’s all for fun though.
You have got terrific knowlwdge in this case.
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As a Columbia grad, I find this sadly humorous and all too true — it pains me when someone I’ve just met seems defensive about their non-Ivy school after somehow finding out where I went, since I don’t broadcast it or make it an issue (some of us Ivy grads truly are down-to-earth.). Hey, I was one of the lucky ones to get accepted — if you went somewhere else, then you had your reasons for going there, and shouldn’t feel compelled to compare that to my reasons. Not everyone follows the same path.
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As a Columbia grad, I find this sadly amusing. As someone who didn’t attend an Ivy League school, it is interesting to hear that non-Ivy graduates sometimes feel the need to justify their post-secondary education after you find out where they went (some of us really are proud of our own alma maters). Hey, if you went somewhere else, good for you! But do not feel bad about what being accepted into a top school means — there are many reasons why people go to different schools and just because someone went to an Ivy League college doesn’t make them better than you or anyone else for that matter. Not everyone follows the same path.