ivy league fuxors / college dropout thread

-- Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyza...), January 5th, 2007. (allyzay)

dont front like you dropped out of college

xpost yeah i 'took time off' too for 6+ years it was the best 6+ years of my life!!! :D

I'm a university dropout. This has so far not hindered my career/life. But the PH34R is in me: that one day I'll need to get a job that requires some paper and I DONT HAVE ONE. :-(

-- dartmouth administration (something@dartmouth.edu), January 5th, 2007 9:23 PM.

im tying up loose ends and saying bye for the wkend but then its back home to jersey. fuuuuuuck

It's shocking to flunk - or get kicked out. Or both. You will be OK - just don't reference NYU as part of a list that ends with "other shit" when you apply.

The worst things, in order, were family reaction:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/phineasathome.jpg

and a letter from the university patronisingly saying that in spite of this setback, they hope I could find a career for myself.

dunno yet. i did an internship over the summer that ws awesome and i think they liked me so i might get in touch and see if they have any openings/internships/suggestions

@hurting i dont necessarily have any problem with living at home except that i dont feel close to many people around here, and the ones that i do go to school elsewhere-- meanwhile im super close with my dartmouth buds and even the graduated ones are in 1. hanover(dartmouth) or 2. scotland. still i know that this might be the best possible thing for me right now

-- or were you talking to nervous

i went to rutgers preschool thats it tho

and i have heard so many horror stories abt udel haha i aint NEVER going there

TRU DAT, HOMZ.

at this point i kind of just want to be in a college town, finishing my degree, and hanging out with some kids along the way, and just get it over with so i can move out of jersey or at least get my own place

I can't think of any good bands that got started at those shows, but The Ex Models did come out of Rutgers around when I was there, and other Rutgers people I knew went on to join good bands elsewhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30affirmative-t.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1191556921-RsPhHj9WQojKfNobxTvY9A

You can make an argument, in fact, that the single most impressive university in the country today is U.C.L.A. It receives more freshman applications than any other — 50,744 this year — and, unlike many of its peers, it can legitimately claim to be an engine of opportunity. About 90 percent of its students, whether they enter as freshmen or transfers, eventually graduate. What City College of New York was to the 20th century, U.C.L.A. is to the 21st.

Well that was an interesting use of 3 years. Only one of which was spent actually passing a year. I was on the way to getting a comfortable 2:1 this year and spending the next in Hamburg. However, I had to repeat my first so was under a lot more scrutiny than the rest. You know they shouldn't be that surprised that sending me daily emails telling me I'm not worthy of a university education might have a negative outcome. I tried to show them with full attendance, good assessment results etc from this semester, but certain people are plainly past caring.

I'm not dead yet, I have an appeal (before results are pubished)... but I'd probably have to go as far as getting myself sectioned to be absolved. My appeals advisor seems to think I have a case, however I've missed him twice now (as well as the GP). I know its the help I need, but I have such poor memory, poor luck and not much self-esteem left. I missed a minor assessment today as well, however it's one of many for that module, the rest of which were fine, so I have my fingers crossed. It seems like everyone is waiting for me to either screw up or "do the right thing" by dropping out. It doesn't seem fair though, when I was *this* close to getting what I wanted. *This* close.

I don't know, things just seem so likely and rational one day, and so hopeless the next. Where will I be come July? Will I become the guy who just disappeared?

Lol melodrama. Here's an update: I got allowed to continue unconditionally. I was prepared for the most character-building fall of my life so was pretty surprised.

No way fuck, however, am I going to let things slip this catastrophically ever again.

continue unconditionally -> you can still attend classes and get your diploma? (sorry i'm a college dropout -> stupid)

wow i hadn't seen your first post! dude you'll learn soon enough that being a student is overrated ;-)

although yeah godspeed with getting that little BA after yr name

xpost Yeah looking forward to updating letterheads/stationary and the like.

xxpost Yes. Everything is totally wiped clean. They even gave me a 'lite' version of a defence attourney. Well, it now looks like I'll have to stove off the concept of maturity and getting out into the real world for 'another' two years. Sigh.

http://yaledailynews.com/magazine/2013/11/07/we-dont-talk-about-it/

[L]ike some other Ivy League colleges, Yale meets 100 percent of demonstrated financial need. More than half of Yale students receive need-based aid directly from the University, which has an estimated financial aid budget of $120 million.

But the family income distribution of Yale’s student body is hardly a reflection of income distribution in the United States as a whole.

In 2012, Yale awarded financial aid to 56 percent of students, nearly all of whom come from households making $200,000 or less. Following the logic of an article published last year in the Harvard Crimson, it is safe to assume that the 44 percent of Yale students who do not receive financial aid — either because they did not apply, or because they were ineligible — come from households with a yearly income of more than $200,000.

According to the U.S. Census, only 4 percent of American households have a combined family income of over $200,000. Yale’s price tag currently stands at $57,000 — the highest it has ever been. For more than half of American families, one year of Yale tuition would comprise their entire yearly income.

Still, the number of low-income students matriculating at Yale has risen steadily in recent years, in part due to an overhaul to the financial aid policy in the 2007-2008 year. Yale families earning less than $60,000 are now completely exempt from tuition, and families earning between $60,000 and $120,000 are only expected to contribute up to 10 percent of their total income. These changes, along with increased recruitment efforts in disadvantaged cities and schools, are aimed at attracting more low-income students to Yale.

What I want to know is what percentage of the 56 percentage of students are in the range from $120,000-200,000

I would guess a majority or supermajority

that does at least represent a transfer of wealth from the upper and upper middle class to the merely prosperous

$120k - $200k is upper middle class

two people earning $60k each are upper middle class? the upper and upper upper middle to the lower upper middle then

i dont know where else to put this??

https://twitter.com/dartmouth/status/840258609833492480

therapy dog programs are very popular at colleges and universities

esp around midterms and finals. one library i worked at started doing therapy dog events once a month bc they were so popular

oh i know, i just thought it was funny that the official tweeters of dartmouth and columbia had an exchange with novelty cute content account, dog_rates

we have puppy therapy at the school i work at <3

repairing the broken link above

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/phineas2_zps77fmnzi9.jpg

family reaction

my uni never had this

and they call themselves among the top 2 in canada

i love dogs and i wldve just gone there to chill w em

(apparently they started having them last year)