The proficiency of the writing at the Ivy League was about the same as the level of writing of any incoming freshman, she said. No worse, yet not better enough to note either. Still, the majority of her students at the Ivy thought they were God's gift to writing and had nothing to learn. She said they were full of attitude, .
I saw this when I was working on my MBA at a "top" school. The students were so full of themselves, but they had no mojo.
I and another student ( a pit trader with a math degree ) jumped the stats sequence and ended up with a second year group in a follow-on class in securities analysis. He knew securities inside and out and I always ask a lot of questions. Because were were new, no one wanted us in their study groups.
In the mid-semester presentations, we took every slide apart in every presentation of our classmates with the professor nodding her head as we went along. The mistakes were mostly simple ones. Most of the students could not answer detailed questions intelligently nor could they handle detailed lines of questioning. Some became defensive.
That afternoon in the Men's room, one of the students stood next to me and said:
"We in Class XXX stick together and look out for each other. We don't make others look bad in class."
