Ivy League

to maximize their efficiency and output. Yet, the implemented system highly prioritizes people who graduate from only the top 15 to 20 universities. This lowers the incentive of those not in ivy leagues who have original and innovative minds which were unrecognized by many universities, while those in ivy league universities receive prestigious jobs with much less effort. Certain individuals who have the capacity to place into high ranked universities and cannot due to financial constraints, do…

Hegemony” she talks about educational institutions and how “smartness” is not just knowledge based, but also appearance based as well. Karen Ho dives into the study of the new educational system and how manipulative Wall Street is, starting with Ivy League schools. The discussion of Wall Street shows exactly how much power it has over the student’s minds and their decisions. The concept of standardization, student inequalities, and the conformity in a school environment are all explored in the…

Wilson, Barack Obama all have two things in common: being president of the United States and graduating from an Ivy League University (Westbrook). That makes 15 presidents who attended an Ivy League school. The Ivy League schools, most of which are older than the United States itself, have produced numerous successful and prestigious alumni since their opening; however, while the Ivy League colleges do provide prestigious degrees, they also provide colossal amounts of stress and anxiety…

does not affect you personally, the amount of hate and disunity that has spread like wildfire in this country since the day Donald Trump has announced this election should awaken even the most ignorant of us. I am proud to know that students of the Ivy League schools, where individuals are deemed to be upper class, were visibly affected by this election. I too wish I could run and scream and cry the day after this terrible election. The amount of times I cried that day was too many to count.…

In Robert Granfield’s social research, Making It by Faking It, he conducts a research on the working class students who attends an Ivy League law school. Majority of the students come from upper-class families that have cultural capital, whereas the working class does not. His interviews with the students gives a good reflection of how money and reputation can influence others. As these working-class students are thrown into the world of the upper-class, they hide their identities and are…

make us happy. Also, Evan Watters, the author of “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan” explores how pharmaceutical companies market happiness through the sale of pills in Japan. Furthermore, the marketing of happiness through the culture on Ivy League…

In True West, Sam Shepard offers a different idea to the traditional American Dream that is taught in so much of our life and literature. It is a piece that features a great deal of symbolism to figuratively give meaning to its production. Examples of symbolism are discovered all over the play and one great example of symbolism could be seen in Austin, Lee’s younger brother. We see Austin wearing a “light blue sports shirt” with “clean blue jeans” and “white tennis shoes.” Clothes say a great…

The Obstacles of Becoming Elite The elite within society are a small group of people who have access to many benefits that those ranked lower than them don’t have access to. This gives those at the top privilege, but this privilege is maintained by the institutions within society. Karen Ho introduces the idea of “smartness”, and how this label defines who is elite within society. She presents it as something that is created in order to maintain this eliteness. Joseph Stiglitz talks about how…

This is illustrated in the Wall Street recruitment process. The recruiter’s main objective is to recruit from Ivy League schools, however, their next most important objective is to recruit “maleness, whiteness, and heteronormativity” ( Ho 167). Wall Street is a man’s world; there is a definite gender hierarchy present and men are on the top of the gender ladder. Just…

grandparents were born in America and have descendants of slaves. However, other studies have shown that Harvard is not unique in the preferences of giving African-American immigrants or children of African American immigrants a chance at their Ivy League school .Mills using compare…