Wait, wait - these same schools that we hear about every fall in news stories? The stories where there are so many potential undergrads applying to Ivy League schools that the world of college applications becomes supremely cutthroat? If those stories are true, then why does any school in the league need to spend time selling itself?

Just in case I get the opportunity to insert them into Hermione?

Fun facts:

Of those schools, only Cornell and Hogwarts allowed females entry from the start. Boston College allowed women to attend in 1970 and two years later Harvard and Dartmouth followed suit.

Yes, many women's colleges were partnered w/ men's colleges like Harvard and Princeton, but women were not offered the same variety of degree programs and were not as well funded.

UNC_Samurai: If those stories are true, then why does any school in the league need to spend time selling itself?

Because some dickhead admin needs to justify their $200k salary.

soze: UNC_Samurai: If those stories are true, then why does any school in the league need to spend time selling itself?

Because some dickhead admin needs to justify their $200k salary.

also to keep the Northern European Button Technology of the Late 17th Century department.

brainiac-dumdum: also to keep the Northern European Button Technology of the Late 17th Century department.

Unfortunately due to some of my volunteer involvement I have to deal with these morons on a semi-regular basis. Underwater basketweavers are more useful, applied mathematicians more socially literate, and cuneiformists more relevant. These are the people who decided to put a performing arts center and an "athletic village" at an engineering school, after all.

/kinda grumpy
//will probably have to lock horns in April again, if I'm reading the political climate correctly. Ugh.

soze: These are the people who decided to put a performing arts center and an "athletic village" at an engineering school, after all.

They should have built a Deodorant Depo and Hair Washing Stations w/ a toothbrush attendant.

brainiac-dumdum: They should have built a Deodorant Depo and Hair Washing Stations w/ a toothbrush attendant.

"How And When To Wear A Damn Suit"

Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell and Boston College

One of these is not like the other.

I can't wait to see the Cambridge police arrest Hagrid in his own house, followed by Obama inviting the arresting officer and Hagrid to the White House for a game of quidditch.

The house system at Caltech sounds more Hogwart-esque than anything I can think of in the Ivys.

Robe and wizard hat?

Would someone please examine the Wart on my Hogleg??

Skyrmion: The house system at Caltech sounds more Hogwart-esque than anything I can think of in the Ivys.

Harvard has a house system too.

pureobscure: Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell and Boston College

One of these is not like the other.

haha i enjoyed that
/bc 08 grad

Cornell's dining hall in Risley looks a lot like the Great Hall from Hogwarts. It's the theater program house, too, so they play it up.

There are a bunch of college groups that play 'quidditch' in Boston Commons on a regular basis. I know they include Harvard, Boston University and Northeastern (haven't seen MIT yet tho).

I'd laugh at them running around on their broom sticks but they're all bigger than me, and I'm only a tough guy on the internet.

soze: brainiac-dumdum: They should have built a Deodorant Depo and Hair Washing Stations w/ a toothbrush attendant.

"How And When To Wear A Damn Suit"

Funerals. Nothing else.

/engineer

See, I asked to be MVP but they misheard it as HPV, and, well . . . wanna see?

From 1970 to 1972, Wolfowitz taught in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, where one of his students was I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. [Wikipedia article]

So basically, Yale is Slytherin.

Where's the college that's like Harry Potter, but with all the "d"'s in "wand" replaced with a "g"?

pureobscure: Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell and Boston College

One of these is not like the other.

Actually, none of these is like the other.

I glanced at the headline and saw "boomstick" rather than "broomstick." Then, I read the headline more closely and was disappointed.

/shop smart
//shop S-Mart

fizzix_is_fun: There are a bunch of college groups that play 'quidditch' in Boston Commons on a regular basis. I know they include Harvard, Boston University and Northeastern (haven't seen MIT yet tho).

Yet another reason to hate humanity.

My kid has already told me she would prefer going to Camp Half-Blood over Hogwarts when she gets older. I can't say I disagree.

I remember feeling the same way when I was applying for college - wanting to know how good the programs were while the admissions and student life people were insisting on how much FUN!!! everyone has.

ecmoRandomNumbers: UNC_Samurai: Wait, wait - these same schools that we hear about every fall in news stories? The stories where there are so many potential undergrads applying to Ivy League schools that the world of college applications becomes supremely cutthroat? If those stories are true, then why does any school in the league need to spend time selling itself?

Maybe because people are starting to figure out that going $200,000 into debt for an undergrad degree is stupid.

In fact, I think anybody's willingness to fill out the financial aid applications to Ivy League schools should automatically preclude them from admission.

Fun fact: if your parents make less than $190K/yr, you go to Harvard for free.

How funny is the schadenfreude now?

Actually, part of the reason these schools do this - not mentioned in the shiatty article (or was it an NYT Op-ed - DNRTFA obviously) - is that they have a "house" kind of system. Kinda like, you know. Hogwarts. At Harvard, they did once have individual character, at least before they started randomizing the assignments in the 90s. Eliot House was Slytherin, Lowell was Ravenclaw, Quincy was Hufflepuff. Allegedly to create "diversity", in pretty much the same way homogenized milk is more "diverse" than milk and cream.

I do not care which school she goes to, I just want to go to school with her!

FSU is on there because our dining hall really does look like the dining hall from Hogwarts. It's this gorgeous, high ceiling with dark wood with really pretty chandelier lights. I never went on an official tour that went in there, but when we peeked in I automatically came to that conclusion. No one really pushed the idea though. I loved eating in there (although the food was mediocre).

Prank Call of Cthulhu: From 1970 to 1972, Wolfowitz taught in the Department of Political Science at Yale University, where one of his students was I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. [Wikipedia article]

So basically, Yale is Slytherin.

Pretty much. Then again, so is Princeton.

Dartmouth: One room was compared to "the Hogwarts feel it was known for."

I'm at Dartmouth now, and I know exactly which room they're talking about. It actually does feel like that.

wow. I'm impressed that a thread involving Hogwarts has made it to 34 posts without a single Hermione pic or reference. I know it's not because Farkers have lives, are at parties, or the like.

where does emma watson go? i'll go there please.

ronaprhys: wow. I'm impressed that a thread involving Hogwarts has made it to 34 posts without a single Hermione pic or reference. I know it's not because Farkers have lives, are at parties, or the like.

Whatever, this is nothing new. There is a Canadian university whose mascot is Brock Badger. Good old Brock Gruffy of Fern Hollow would be pleased.

proletarian: rock/hermione pic

That's awesome.

proletarian: ronaprhys: wow. I'm impressed that a thread involving Hogwarts has made it to 34 posts without a single Hermione pic or reference. I know it's not because Farkers have lives, are at parties, or the like.

Well played, sir. Well played.

flamingboard: where does emma watson go? i'll go there please.

Brown. My roomie's brother lives down the hall from her.

My school looks the closest to Hogwarts, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

ArkAngel: proletarian: ronaprhys: wow. I'm impressed that a thread involving Hogwarts has made it to 34 posts without a single Hermione pic or reference. I know it's not because Farkers have lives, are at parties, or the like.

Hey, do you have the non-Photoshopped version of that?

flamingboard: where does emma watson go? i'll go there please.

Brown.

ronaprhys: wow. I'm impressed that a thread involving Hogwarts has made it to 34 posts without a single Hermione pic or reference. I know it's not because Farkers have lives, are at parties, or the like.

Second reply in the thread?

Green Man jump high!

/This whole thing is just sad

UNC_Samurai: Wait, wait - these same schools that we hear about every fall in news stories? The stories where there are so many potential undergrads applying to Ivy League schools that the world of college applications becomes supremely cutthroat? If those stories are true, then why does any school in the league need to spend time selling itself?

Who knows? When I toured Emory (I know it's not Ivy League, but no. 17 in the country ain't bad), one of their selling points was that Chris McCandless went there. They had a movie poster signed by the actor that played him in Into The Wild. It was absurd, Chris hated that school and everyone in it.