OT: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

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Pitt is undoubtedly an excellent school, and I’m quite poud to call it my Alma Mater, but it’s not in the same “elite” class like Hopkins, Harvard, Penn or Yale. Typically in the US News rankings we come in about 15-18 or so, not bad, but not quite top tier. And you can ususally find somebody from any medical school that has achieved greatness.

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How NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard

Funny stuff:

“Early Reading Not Needed

Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.

Board Games Won’t Help

Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.

Not All A’s

It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.

The Right Donation

It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.

Getting the Recommendations

Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard

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How NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard

Funny stuff:

“Early Reading Not Needed

Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.

Board Games Won’t Help

Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.

Not All A’s

It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.

The Right Donation

It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.

Getting the Recommendations

Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard

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How NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard

Funny stuff:

“Early Reading Not Needed

Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.

Board Games Won’t Help

Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.

Not All A’s

It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.

The Right Donation

It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.

Getting the Recommendations

Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard

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How NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard

Funny stuff:

“Early Reading Not Needed

Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.

Board Games Won’t Help

Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.

Not All A’s

It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.

The Right Donation

It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.

Getting the Recommendations

Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard

[equalizer]

How NOT to Get Your Kid Into Harvard

Funny stuff:

“Early Reading Not Needed

Reading before age 2 is not a sign of intelligence. It’s only a sign that your child has a prematurely inflated ego after he encouraged inferiority complexes in all of the kids at his playgroup.

Board Games Won’t Help

Board games like Monopoly won’t make your kids smart. In fact, these hours-long contests of will can only foster qualities of manipulation and greed, which will no doubt serve them well in the financial services industry.

Not All A’s

It is a commonly held misconception that all Harvard students earned straight A’s in high school. That’s not true. Some of us occasionally earned a B in some really important subject. Like gym.

The Right Donation

It is patently false that, in order to curry favor with a college, parents must include the school in their wills and fund the construction of at least one building to the campus before their children can get in. Depending on the school, it would probably only take a few desks, or an LCD projector. But for Harvard? Definitely a small science laboratory, at a minimum.

Getting the Recommendations

Don’t believe that students need to suck up to their high school teachers–and deliver hugs on a regular basis–in order to secure a good recommendation. Those glowing letters should emerge out of your child’s natural ability in class, or some other more tangible inducement–like a week at your oceanfront estate in Southampton. ”

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/106818/How-NOT-to-Get-Your-Kid-Into-Harvard

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Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!

Who will now be replaced by Harvard grad Fritz Henderson, basically hand-picked by Harvard grad Barack Obama.

If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out? – Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

[svelte]

Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!

Who will now be replaced by Harvard grad Fritz Henderson, basically hand-picked by Harvard grad Barack Obama.

If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out? – Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

[svelte]

Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!

Who will now be replaced by Harvard grad Fritz Henderson, basically hand-picked by Harvard grad Barack Obama.

If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out? – Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

[svelte]

Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!

Who will now be replaced by Harvard grad Fritz Henderson, basically hand-picked by Harvard grad Barack Obama.

If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out? – Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

[svelte]

Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!

Who will now be replaced by Harvard grad Fritz Henderson, basically hand-picked by Harvard grad Barack Obama.

If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out? – Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

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[quote=svelte]Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!
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Kinda unfair comparison.

Bush wouldn’t be a ‘yalie’ if it weren’t for his father. He’d simply be a failed oil businessman if it weren’t for his father. He wouldn’t be an ex-POTUS if it weren’t for his father.

Wagoner was shackled by contracts with the union. Many argued about what the GM workers were really paid an hr but the fact is it was high and Wagoner really couldn’t do anything about it. Look, the GM is literally days/weeks away from bankruptcy without loans from US Govt and still, the unions are barely budging. If I were in charge of the union, I’d basically agree to anything to keep the company going and keep job, even if it meant big pay cuts…

Their ‘solutions’ are smaller and slower than the problems they are facing…

FYI, just passing on a story that many here may not be aware of since this news is from S. Korea. The union representing 6500 shipyard workers at the Hyundai Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, recently pledged not to go on a strike for the next 3 years to help the company weather the global economic crisis. I think they also pledged not to oppose any kind of pay cuts that may be implemented by the employer. Granted the shipyard has enough orders to keep them busy for the next 3 years but they did get hurt by the economic crisis. For a few months the shipyard didn’t pick up any new order which is unheard of…

Without the company there is no union…

imho.

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[quote=svelte]Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!
[/quote]

Kinda unfair comparison.

Bush wouldn’t be a ‘yalie’ if it weren’t for his father. He’d simply be a failed oil businessman if it weren’t for his father. He wouldn’t be an ex-POTUS if it weren’t for his father.

Wagoner was shackled by contracts with the union. Many argued about what the GM workers were really paid an hr but the fact is it was high and Wagoner really couldn’t do anything about it. Look, the GM is literally days/weeks away from bankruptcy without loans from US Govt and still, the unions are barely budging. If I were in charge of the union, I’d basically agree to anything to keep the company going and keep job, even if it meant big pay cuts…

Their ‘solutions’ are smaller and slower than the problems they are facing…

FYI, just passing on a story that many here may not be aware of since this news is from S. Korea. The union representing 6500 shipyard workers at the Hyundai Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, recently pledged not to go on a strike for the next 3 years to help the company weather the global economic crisis. I think they also pledged not to oppose any kind of pay cuts that may be implemented by the employer. Granted the shipyard has enough orders to keep them busy for the next 3 years but they did get hurt by the economic crisis. For a few months the shipyard didn’t pick up any new order which is unheard of…

Without the company there is no union…

imho.

[dbapig]

[quote=svelte]Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!
[/quote]

Kinda unfair comparison.

Bush wouldn’t be a ‘yalie’ if it weren’t for his father. He’d simply be a failed oil businessman if it weren’t for his father. He wouldn’t be an ex-POTUS if it weren’t for his father.

Wagoner was shackled by contracts with the union. Many argued about what the GM workers were really paid an hr but the fact is it was high and Wagoner really couldn’t do anything about it. Look, the GM is literally days/weeks away from bankruptcy without loans from US Govt and still, the unions are barely budging. If I were in charge of the union, I’d basically agree to anything to keep the company going and keep job, even if it meant big pay cuts…

Their ‘solutions’ are smaller and slower than the problems they are facing…

FYI, just passing on a story that many here may not be aware of since this news is from S. Korea. The union representing 6500 shipyard workers at the Hyundai Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, recently pledged not to go on a strike for the next 3 years to help the company weather the global economic crisis. I think they also pledged not to oppose any kind of pay cuts that may be implemented by the employer. Granted the shipyard has enough orders to keep them busy for the next 3 years but they did get hurt by the economic crisis. For a few months the shipyard didn’t pick up any new order which is unheard of…

Without the company there is no union…

imho.

[dbapig]

[quote=svelte]Yep, those with the elite education have done such a bang up job as of late:

Yalie Bush:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/bush43.html

Harvard Grad GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner:

http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/102405_gm.html

Wagoner emphasized the importance of making strategic decisions based on the long-term goals of a company. …gotta love it!
[/quote]

Kinda unfair comparison.

Bush wouldn’t be a ‘yalie’ if it weren’t for his father. He’d simply be a failed oil businessman if it weren’t for his father. He wouldn’t be an ex-POTUS if it weren’t for his father.

Wagoner was shackled by contracts with the union. Many argued about what the GM workers were really paid an hr but the fact is it was high and Wagoner really couldn’t do anything about it. Look, the GM is literally days/weeks away from bankruptcy without loans from US Govt and still, the unions are barely budging. If I were in charge of the union, I’d basically agree to anything to keep the company going and keep job, even if it meant big pay cuts…

Their ‘solutions’ are smaller and slower than the problems they are facing…

FYI, just passing on a story that many here may not be aware of since this news is from S. Korea. The union representing 6500 shipyard workers at the Hyundai Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, recently pledged not to go on a strike for the next 3 years to help the company weather the global economic crisis. I think they also pledged not to oppose any kind of pay cuts that may be implemented by the employer. Granted the shipyard has enough orders to keep them busy for the next 3 years but they did get hurt by the economic crisis. For a few months the shipyard didn’t pick up any new order which is unheard of…

Without the company there is no union…

imho.

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