Is this school respectable? Forum

[Grizz]

some of my favorite internet posts are "I'd rather attend x (unknown school) than Harvard because all those pretentious assholes at Harvard"

Don't be so transparent, people.

I wouldn't not attend harvard for that reason, but saying "I go to a school near Boston" is retarded and pretentious. Also the only people who drop that line are idiots who don't seem to have anything going for them.

Ask them how they like Tufts.

[JamMasterJ]

some of my favorite internet posts are "I'd rather attend x (unknown school) than Harvard because all those pretentious assholes at Harvard"

Don't be so transparent, people.

I wouldn't not attend harvard for that reason, but saying "I go to a school near Boston" is retarded and pretentious. Also the only people who drop that line are idiots who don't seem to have anything going for them.

Ask them how they like Tufts.

I feel like this conversation was had on another thread

[thedive]

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandrevi ... ntana-2536

Uh, I don't see how the rankings really matter when talking about Montana. When looking at the amount of debt one will burden (in-state) and how the school places in the home market, Montana seems like a better investment than many lower T1 and T2 schools that charge ridiculously over priced tuition in over saturated markets that are sought by many T14 grads. Sure you don't have a solid chance at big law, but then again you won't need it as badly as the students that didn't place high in their class or less than median and paid close to sticker for most schools in the general region of 25-100.

[PDaddy]

The University of Montana calls itself the "Harvard of the West," and I'm in no position to judge. What do other people (and more importantly, T14 adcomms) think of it?
EDIT: I mean the undergrad, not law school.

The University of Montana isn't even the Harvard of Missoula.

[PDaddy]

Law schools apparently don't give a hoot where you go for UG provided you get an extremely high GPA/respectable LSAT score.


But to be honest I don't understand how anyone in their sane mind would want to go to Uni in Montana. Harvard of the west my ass. You'd be among the inbred children of cattle ranchers....

I know, right? I don't even think Montana would rank academically in the top-50 colleges and universities in the west.

Stanford is the "Harvard of the west". Compared to that, the University of Montana is a below-average community college with only 100-level courses.

[dabbadon8]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

[PDaddy]

If you have to ask, no. If they call themselves 'the Harvard of ______' or 'the _______ Ivy', run, don't walk.

Boston College is traditionally called the "Jesuit Ivy" ... Morehouse is the "black Harvard" or "Harvard of the South." Those are both very well regarded schools...

Actually, Howard (not Morehouse) is the black Harvard, and it receives that distinction because of the type of talent it attracts (student, faculty, staff, and administration). The law school did produce a Supreme Court Justice. How many colleges/universities outside of the Harvards, Yales and Stanfords have done that? That is a fair call. And Spelman is arguably the black Wellesley. Try sitting in their classes or meeting black students from these schools and you will see that they tend to be extremely bright, mature, focussed, and dedicated.

You are right, white people and non-blacks tend to sleep on the black colleges and universities, but if you meet the white students who have attended them, they will tell you that they were challenged academically much more than they expected.

I have no problem with southern ivies and public ivies either. After all, can we really say that harvard is better than Duke or Vanderbilt? And schools like UC-Berkeley and UVA deserve such recognition.

[yngblkgifted]

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandrevi ... ntana-2536

Uh, I don't see how the rankings really matter when talking about Montana. When looking at the amount of debt one will burden (in-state) and how the school places in the home market, Montana seems like a better investment than many lower T1 and T2 schools that charge ridiculously over priced tuition in over saturated markets that are sought by many T14 grads. Sure you don't have a solid chance at big law, but then again you won't need it as badly as the students that didn't place high in their class or less than median and paid close to sticker for most schools in the general region of 25-100.

Talking about undergrad homey.

Edit: And rankings always matter on this website.

[paulinaporizkova]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

oddly enough, the Harvard of the Northeast is actually Yale

[Bildungsroman]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

Pretty sure the Yale of the West is in Colorado.

[KevinP]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

oddly enough, the Harvard of the Northeast is actually Yale

In terms of law school, Harvard is the Yale of the Northeast.

[jarofsoup]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

Hah. This is a very Harvard- centric way of looking at the world.

[JamMasterJ]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

Hah. This is a very Harvard- centric way of looking at the world.

Isn't that the only way?

[ahduth]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

Hah. This is a very Harvard- centric way of looking at the world.

Isn't that the only way?

Naw, I've always thought of Harvard as the Stanford of the East.

[kapital98]

If you have to ask, no. If they call themselves 'the Harvard of ______' or 'the _______ Ivy', run, don't walk.

I hate when schools do this.

My state undergrad has been calling itself a "public ivy" just because its admission standards are almost identical to Cornell's. Please...

[ahduth]

If you have to ask, no. If they call themselves 'the Harvard of ______' or 'the _______ Ivy', run, don't walk.

I hate when schools do this.

My state undergrad has been calling itself a "public ivy" just because its admission standards are almost identical to Cornell's. Please...

My alma mater really feels the need to point out it's not a public school. And I feel like there's this consensus that no one cares. But that's maybe just cold, hard NYC bearing down on me?

It could just be me who doesn't care.

On a side note, Harvard of the Heartland? Really? I thought Heartland was some sort of ass hat marketing term. By and large I think we'd rather you just not call our region anything at all, but if you must... call it the Midwest?

[JamMasterJ]

If you have to ask, no. If they call themselves 'the Harvard of ______' or 'the _______ Ivy', run, don't walk.

I hate when schools do this.

My state undergrad has been calling itself a "public ivy" just because its admission standards are almost identical to Cornell's. Please...

My alma mater really feels the need to point out it's not a public school. And I feel like there's this consensus that no one cares. But that's maybe just cold, hard NYC bearing down on me?

It could just be me who doesn't care.

On a side note, Harvard of the Heartland? Really? I thought Heartland was some sort of ass hat marketing term. By and large I think we'd rather you just not call our region anything at all, but if you must... call it the Midwest?

Agreed

[iamnooneelse]

This thread is so Americentric. Everyone else in the world knows Harvard is the Cambridge of the U.S. Suddenly being "the Harvard" of anything has slightly less appeal!

[Patriot1208]

This thread is so Americentric. Everyone else in the world knows Harvard is the Cambridge of the U.S. Suddenly being "the Harvard" of anything has slightly less appeal!

Ya but Cambridge is the Princeton of Europe, so in a round a bout way it's still americentric.

[iamnooneelse]

This thread is so Americentric. Everyone else in the world knows Harvard is the Cambridge of the U.S. Suddenly being "the Harvard" of anything has slightly less appeal!

Ya but Cambridge is the Princeton of Europe, so in a round a bout way it's still americentric.

Well if Cambridge is the Princeton of Europe then Harvard is just in a roundabout way the Princeton of Massachusetts. In which case the University of Montana is the "Princeton of Massachusetts of the West." Doesn't have such a nice ring to it anymore.

[ak13]

At first I thought that was a bear next to the man golfing, wouldn't surprise me since it is Montana and all...

I would go just to have a bear as a caddy. "Bear, hand me my 9 iron!"

[iamnooneelse]

At first I thought that was a bear next to the man golfing, wouldn't surprise me since it is Montana and all...

I would go just to have a bear as a caddy. "Bear, hand me my 9 iron!"

I'd go just for the challenging golf. "Play it as it lies" is a bit more sinister phrase when Momma Bear is breathing down your back because you just nailed Winnie the Poo with blunt force to the head from a shanked drive.

[ak13]

At first I thought that was a bear next to the man golfing, wouldn't surprise me since it is Montana and all...

I would go just to have a bear as a caddy. "Bear, hand me my 9 iron!"

I'd go just for the challenging golf. "Play it as it lies" is a bit more sinister phrase when Momma Bear is breathing down your back because you just nailed Winnie the Poo with blunt force to the head from a shanked drive.

Is this your ball? It struck my foot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52aaTFibHo

[Borhas]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

Duke is USC of the South
Chicago is the MIT of the heartland
UVa is Michigan of the East
Stanford is the Yale of the West
Harvard is the University of Montana of Boston
Columbia is the Harvard of New York

[Helicio]

According to Law School Confidential...

Harvard of the South: Duke
Harvard of the Heartland: Chicago
Harvard of the West: Stanford

Duke is USC of the South
Chicago is the MIT of the heartland
UVa is Michigan of the East
Stanford is the Yale of the West
Harvard is the University of Montana of Boston
Columbia is the Harvard of New York

Duke is the Duke of the South.
Chicago is the Chicago of the heartland.
UVA is the UVA of the East.
Stanford is the Stanford of the West.
Harvard is the Harvard.
Columbia is the Columbia of New York.