If you care to refresh my memory as to where you attend, but I seem to recall you don't attend Upenn or Carnegie. I don't seem to recall any noteworthy schools.
Temple or Drexel? West Chester? All of those are at least 3rd rate.
Ha! For a college snob, you're quite ignorant about the range of top universities and LACs in Pennsylvania. You left out Swartmore, Byrn Mawr, Haverford, Bucknell, Dickinson, Lehigh, and several others.
<begins rant about Penn> If you graduated from Penn, congrats -- you went to the school for rejected/wait-listed Harvard wannabes. The biggest mistake I made was even applying to Penn -- the frugal misers in the financial aid dep't granted me a $180,000 financial anchor that would've ensured that including grad school costs, I would've been in debt till my thirties or forties. That doesn't seem to matter to most at Penn, because the university is replete with those who either live in luxury apartments off-campus or incessantly complain about the dilapidated on-campus housing. (Two cousins of mine have gone to Penn and both couldn't wait to go to grad school elsewhere.)
I respect those students who were accepted to Penn, but I'd argue that there are numerous other schools that offer more student-faculty interaction and a less stratified social scene for less coin.
<ends rant about Penn>
One last note about colleges and intellectual elitism -- a friend of mine with Asperger's went to a local public university instead of a top 10 national university so he could be closer to his parents. He's been mentored by one of the comp. science profs. there and recently was the youngest speaker at a conference on quantum physics. What matters more than the age of the university or the ranking ascribed to it by the omniscient U.S News and World Report is the intellectual vivacity of the individual.
Finally, denigrating a person's university doesn't detract from that person's argument.
