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13607029 No.13607029 [Reply] [Original]

Are their any well known philosophers that didn't go to a Ivy League/Historical College? Every where I look I see big name colleges or for Europeans, a university with looong history and tons of names birthed from it in the past.

Me being from NA and not having a perfect GPA/SAT/ACT scores I would never be able to set foot in a Ivy League without some amazing made up sob story in my essay.

>> No.13607052 [DELETED] 

The less numerical / rigorous a field of study is, the more its ranking systems depend on associations with prestige, the more a student's future prospects depend on the prestige of the undergraduate and graduate universities.

I think you can save yourself by working hard and going to a good university for grad school but if you don't then you have no chance. And by good I mean one of the top few that are seen as good by the people in the academic field.

>> No.13607053

>>13607029

Quine went to Oberlin, which is generally regarded as a liberal arts school. Fredric Jameson went to Haverford College, another small liberal arts school. Where you get your Ph.D. from really matters

>> No.13608091

>>13607029
DFW went to Amherst lul

>> No.13608659

>>13607029
Rock fact