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Subject: Re: Ask Danny Wolf and Malik Mack

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Date Posted: 14:55:07 04/24/24 Wed
In reply to: sparman 's message, "Re: Ask Danny Wolf and Malik Mack" on 14:26:03 04/24/24 Wed

Because the degree signified intellectual capacity in the employment marketplace when I and others attended.

Too many here would see a dead canary in a coal mine and blame the canary for dying.

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Ghost
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Date Posted: 15:05:43 04/24/24 Wed

Surely the Ivy League experience is different for athletes and non-athletes. Maybe someone has a study they can contribute to the discussion, but let's take Danny Wolf as an example. He's played two years at Yale, won an Ivy Championship and now wants to consider (at least) a potential professional basketball career. Where is his best chance of realizing that dream? If he stays at Yale, he'll be practicing every day against an inferior player. He'll play 3-4 guarantee games versus high level D1 opponents where he'll have a chance to showcase his skills. If he goes to Michigan, not only will be at a comparably academically strong institution (and its' alumni network), but he'll facing a physically equal opponent in practice EVERY day (good for improving your skills), get top quality coaching (I love James Jones and his staff but let's give Michigan's staff a slight edge in player development) have the BEST facilities available for development, be on a campus that embraces D1 athletics with a Big Ten football game at home six times a year, hefty NIL pocket money, a considerable Northeast/Jewish population and the elimination of the what if? question for the rest of his life if he doesn't do this? So let's not diminish the Ivy League degree, let's embrace the seizing of an opportunity that very few Ivy League (to start) students ever get.

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sparman
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Date Posted: 16:38:18 04/24/24 Wed

I agree completely about differences between athletes and nonathletes, but IMO that supports the argument against generalizing about lessening appeal of the degree drawn from a currently high number of athlete transfers or current campus protests.

And to our observant colleague, the conclusion about the degree opening doors to your desired career path is exactly why many HS students have looked, and will continue to look, to the ivies, notwithstanding Mr. Silver's general opinion (which BTW expressly acknowledged the value of the degree in certain very common ivy graduate paths).

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Author: Ghost [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:23:23 04/24/24 Wed You and I are good but let me set up a hypothetical. You are overseeing the hiring at a financial institution. Would you look more favorably at a graduate from Davidson, Northwestern, Boston U who played four years of basketball vs an Ivy League grad who did not participate in athletics? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Date Posted: 20:17:55 04/24/24 Wed

My spouse oversaw that function at such an institution for a while. I am told they looked for ivy grads, assuming other factors were good. If someone was top of class at other schools they might be viewed comparably. Athletics could help, depending on what they did, because it could show organizational and team skills, etc., but were not a primary factor. Of course each department has its own profile - investment banking very different from floor trading, for example.

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Date Posted: 21:06:52 04/24/24 Wed

My spouse must have hired three or four hundred senior editorial and financial staffers for billion-dollar corporations and consultancies over the years. I never heard her refer to athletics as a differentiator (although possibly a plus). In contrast, she was maniacal about hiring graduates who could write effectively and in multiple forms, ESPECIALLY financial hires. She was constantly turning down honors accounting grads from programs you would know, who couldn’t compose a two-paragraph memo.

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Author: Ghost [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 14:30:58 04/26/24 Fri Interesting hearing the perspective from two women, I wonder if guys might look at it a bit differently. Thanks for the responses. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]