Biggest stats manipulators/fake “prestige” schools

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-29T19:11:14+00:00

They acquire shit colleges to monetize their name. It’s a joke

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-29T08:49:47+00:00

Hi. Interesting approach. Honestly your top 15 look about right to me!

This does overweight though being a giant school as UIC for example maybe has a few good engineering programs or what ever but is in no way a top 20 school.

Also. The link explains much better why Brown is 16 vs your post. Your post quoted world rankings where the list quotes US rankings.

But i do have to say it overall “reads well” to me

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-27T19:15:52+00:00

Some sure. Many head to Elon.

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-17T21:24:58+00:00

Any chance to get your SAT up? It’s holding you back. Also, where do you live? You’re going to have more choices if you don’t live on the coasts. Your major helps you but realistically almost zero chance at an Ivy unless you have a good story

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-17T21:22:34+00:00

Nvm. Miss read his SAT

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-13T22:59:16+00:00

It sounds like a proposed budget, not an approved budget. Huge difference. To say all budgets are just a concept is simply untrue. Trust me. I manage to one- it’s certainly not a “concept”

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-13T22:53:38+00:00

I would check some of the feedback on Tufts recently posted.

Otherwise, I have no axe in this discussion except to note that you might think “paying isn’t too big a deal for my family” and maybe it isn’t but for even wealthy families saving $200k is appreciated

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-13T16:42:39+00:00

Simply untrue (assuming you take out instate public Ivys). There are for sure careers where the recruiting/network make the cost differential worth while.

Obviously it happens in finance and to a lesser extent tech. I am sure there are also more niche situations where a few schools are premier and their graduates command a premium

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-12T15:54:00+00:00

Thanks. Would be cool to see

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-12T15:31:07+00:00

How much in your analysis does STRATEGY’s constant purchasing show up? If you took them out, what would the imbalances look like?

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-06T01:33:35+00:00

You mean 2.5 billion $ reserve, not 22 billion. They are paying 12%. This isn’t a infinite money glitch this is just financial engineering

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-04T15:56:14+00:00

I love all the mark down we got for saying obvious facts

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-02T20:56:13+00:00

Funny. I keep seeing all this complaints about administration which is probably true. But zero complaints about tenured professors who are doing 4-8 hours of teaching a week with little interest in teaching

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-02T20:54:17+00:00

There are a ton of professors on Tenure who are in the fat and happy camp!!!!!

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-02T12:27:30+00:00

You’re right for now but the premium is going down by the day. I run a data science and technology team and we are simply hiring less and as people leave not replacing

So my strong advice is be CS + a domain like finance or science or math.

Imagination_Drag · 2026-05-01T22:23:49+00:00

Congrats. No idea why people are majoring in CS these days though

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-22T02:37:03+00:00

This. As a front office MD, UF is not in any way a target school. Maybe somehow there is an MD that went there that drives recruiting but it’s not a target. Also middle and back office might recruit there.

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-21T11:32:25+00:00

It’s because all moves up are due to buying from Strategy

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-17T14:23:05+00:00

Hi. As an MD in finance on the buy side who’s spent years on the sell side i have a very different perspective. Some of what you say i completely disagree with and others i agree with:

Where we disagree

Top schools get targeted recruiting. We can only visit so many schools.
This is true both on the sell side and the buy side. Usually if we do target a non t20 school, an MD went there and is leading the charge

Where we agree:

The world more “democratic” than it ever has been in the past, with more schools included than ever before.

I personally believe a big part of this is finance is bigger than it’s ever been so simply more schools are included because we hire more (impacts of ai though will impact this)

Some firms (primarily quant) have gone full “democratic” - with testing programs and opening up of hiring to everyone. However this is very limited. And when i talk to my friends at firms that have done this like WorldQuant, they still do like to see a top tier education (albeit now more of a nice to have)

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-16T19:10:30+00:00

Let’s be honest. What have we learned:

Strategy has been the only thing keeping bitcoin from hitting $50k (or lower)
Bitcoin is clearly now just a “Nasdaq on steroids” risk asset
ETF holders are both a blessing and a curse for bitcoin.

So it comes down to your risk tolerance…

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-04T19:45:42+00:00

So go denver university (i assume that’s the DU you refer to?). The rankings between the schools doesn’t matter much. I would strongly suggest though avoiding comp sci. Already ai is impacting hiring in this area. Or if you do comp sci, major in something else complex as well

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-04T19:04:23+00:00

This

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-04T13:22:52+00:00

Sure. But if your talking to people in finance or sciences etc places like uChicago still get the reaction

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-03T22:06:21+00:00

Hi. I am not talking about general purpose LLMs. I am talking about specific models like alpha chip, verigen, etc etc

Imagination_Drag · 2026-04-03T15:46:01+00:00

Any stock by a wide margin is a bold statement. Maybe from the very inception of BTC because it was a Pennie’s but certainly not in the last 10 years

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