/lit/ - Literature

>>15664497
What the fuck are you even talking about? I think you're projecting anon. I never even claimed to go to any of those schools - and I don't. I go to a small liberal arts college that you probably haven't heard of.

It's simply an objective fact that you can get an education comparable to the Ivy League or Oxford/Oxbridge at just about any state school. Now does that mean that a state school like UC Irvine or UW Madison is as good as Harvard or Yale? Certainly not. On the whole Yale is obviously a much better school than UW Madison. That being said, a school like UW Madison or UCLA or UNC Chapel Hill can easily still be a top 25, a top 10, or even a top 5 university within a particular field. You may not believe that or agree with it, but if that's the case then you're just an uneducated loser without any experience in higher education.

I don't understand why this is hard for you to understand or why you think I'm tooting my own horn. As I said before, I literally go to a small liberal arts college that you've probably never heard of because it's not very big, important, or special. I'll admit it: I'm not going to a great school. I'm not going to one of the schools I'm talking about. However they do fucking exist, and that shouldn't be a controversial statement and it shouldn't be hard for you to believe. If you really want to, you can just pick a random subject an search "top 10 US X departments" (where X is a subject of your choice). Honestly though, if you have ever read a contemporary research monograph, anthology, any academic journal, or if you had even just taken the time to apply to grad school, none of this would be news to you.

If you unironically think that schools like Oxford and Harvard are filled with geniuses that just completely shit on every other university, then you're simply mistaken. Oxford is certainly one of the best schools in the world, but there are plenty of great academics and scholars at other universities across the world, and in many cases the "#1 expert" on a particular topic could as easily be working at a school like CUNY as a school like Princeton. If you aren't aware of that or you disagree, then like I said before, the only reason would be that you're actually an uneducated retard who is talking out of his ass.