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What % of LSU students are equally as intelligent as the average Ivy League student?
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:01 am
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:01 am
Don't conflate intelligence with "could be admitted to an Ivy League school."
I think probably the top 20 percent are of comparable intelligence to the average Ivy League student, and probably slightly more could make it academically there if admitted. I think up to half of LSU students are as intelligent as many subgroups of students at Ivy League schools.
And this is not to prop up LSU, but more a knock on the Ivy League and how they dumbed down their curriculum and made diversity more important than intelligence.
I think probably the top 20 percent are of comparable intelligence to the average Ivy League student, and probably slightly more could make it academically there if admitted. I think up to half of LSU students are as intelligent as many subgroups of students at Ivy League schools.
And this is not to prop up LSU, but more a knock on the Ivy League and how they dumbed down their curriculum and made diversity more important than intelligence.
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Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:02 am to Bjorn Cyborg
2.77%
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:03 am to Bjorn Cyborg
3.50%
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:03 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Ivy League is jealous as frick of LSUs diversity
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:04 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:06 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Probably 5% or so. 4 people I graduated high school with went to ivy league or Stanford, and while they were smart the differentiator is all the work that goes into getting into those schools. Service hours, academic extra curriculars, etc. Just the application to those schools take hours if not days to complete.
I took the same classes and had the same grades as those kids, but I didn't want to spend my weekends doing academic volunteer shite or write essays to places I might not even get in. I played sports and hunted and drank.
I took the same classes and had the same grades as those kids, but I didn't want to spend my weekends doing academic volunteer shite or write essays to places I might not even get in. I played sports and hunted and drank.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:09 am to Bjorn Cyborg
TIL: The average salary of a harvard graduate is $89K whereas the average salary of an LSU grad is $50K
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:09 am to Bjorn Cyborg
I'd question the wits of any student that chose LSU over Ivy League.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:10 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Was probably higher before F King.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:10 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Their difficulty has to do with course load and the amount of material they're able to cover if I remember correctly.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:10 am to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:
Don't conflate intelligence with "could be admitted to an Ivy League school."
I think probably the top 20 percent are of comparable intelligence to the average Ivy League student, and probably slightly more could make it academically there if admitted. I think up to half of LSU students are as intelligent as many subgroups of students at Ivy League schools.
And this is not to prop up LSU, but more a knock on the Ivy League and how they dumbed down their curriculum and made diversity more important than intelligence.
I worked with a ton of Ivy leaguers in the Big 4. I was smarter than most of them, and I ain't all that smrt. I'd say the percentage is pretty high.
This post was edited on 6/1/21 at 11:11 am
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:12 am to Tigeralum2008
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TIL: The average salary of a harvard graduate is $89K whereas the average salary of an LSU grad is $50K
Now adjust for COL difference between Louisiana and Boston. Go.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:12 am to BlackAdam
quote:Imagine going to an Ivy League school just to end up working for one of the Big 4
I worked with a ton of Ivy leaguers in the Big 4.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:13 am to DiamondDog
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Now adjust for COL difference between Louisiana and Boston. Go.
You have to work in Boston if you went to Harvard?
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:14 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
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Imagine going to an Ivy League school just to end up working for one of the Big 4
Im general, yes, but some of those M&A guys start around $150k
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:14 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I played sports
If you were good enough, I promise an ivy would take you. My unweighted GPA was a hair under 3.0, Columbia was quite adamant about giving me academic scholarship money.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:14 am to BlackAdam
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I worked with a ton of Ivy leaguers in the Big 4. I was smarter than most of them, and I ain't all that smrt. I'd say the percentage is pretty high.
I know some super smart LSU grads: doctors, engineers, business minds. I also know some dumb Ivy League grads.
I think Ivy Leagues attract a certain type of person, and it's not always driven by intelligence.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:15 am to DiamondDog
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Now adjust for COL difference between Louisiana and Boston. Go.
I'd agree Harvard grads probably stay in the higher COL areas
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:20 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
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Imagine going to an Ivy League school just to end up working for one of the Big 4
I know a chick who graduated from Yale who is a secretary at a children's book publisher.
Fed gov is loaded with Ivy leaguers.
Posted on 6/1/21 at 11:20 am to Bjorn Cyborg
I mean, have you seen some of the ivy school grads?
They are rejecting some of the best for those less qualified in the name of diversity, because East Asians and Indians aren’t “people of color” anymore
They are rejecting some of the best for those less qualified in the name of diversity, because East Asians and Indians aren’t “people of color” anymore
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