I know that would've been impossible but it's fun to think about. I think if he still went down the streaming route he'd probably never shut up about it, especially if he got a Harvard Business School degree. Do you guys think he'd have his parents pay tuition or take out student loans?
Same thing that happened at the college he went to. At the college he went to he started as a Comp Sci major, chimped out at his professor for "teaching him wrong", changed to a Business major with a focus on finance, got kicked off campus for drinking constantly in the dorms, etc.
Phil would end up doing the SAME thing he's doing now. However, I wonder if he would try to convince his parents to move closer to him at Harvard or Yale, so Linda can cook him food and do his laundry, because Phil didn't know how to do either until he was in his 30's.
Phil was sort of right in that he stood no chance whatsoever of getting into an elite school back when they were heavily using affirmative action. But now even though they've scaled back on direct AA I doubt he'd still have much of a chance. It takes more than good grades out of a class of 30 and a good SAT (assuming he's telling the truth about that) to get into an Ivy League even when they're not shipping in tons of minorities ahead of you. Theres no shortage of Asian kids in strict families no lifing textbooks all day to fill up all the campuses several times over. You'd have to do more like wow them with extracurriculars and interviews. Tales of your 4th place finish at Evo might be unconventional but I doubt it will impress most Ivy League admissions officers.
Assuming he did somehow make it in it would probably go about the same if not worse as his stint into being a computer science major. Theres a major difference between high school and college level work. I know people like phil who flourished in high school than got puffed up to hit a brick wall in college. High school is a ton more standardization and rote memorization. Which as we all know from SF, to games, to bankruptcy court is the type of big dumb system phil is adept at manipulating. Not to say colleges themselves don't churn out a ton of morons but being great at high school is even less impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if an Ivy League phil ended up in the exact same trajectory becoming a hated video game streamer saying the exact same things except we'd have to put up with extra bragging about how smart he was having dropped out of the Ivy League and how they were threatened by his genius and couldn't allow him to become the next Elon Musk.
Ivy League especially for the kind of degrees Phil got (business, finance, econ etc.) aren't really prestigious because of the education but moreso the networking opportunities. It's where you can meet someone who will have both the money and the business-savvy to approach and say "hey I'm thinking of competing with EVO, do you want in on this venture/what stupid shit should I avoid to not fuck this all up?". No one needs to be informed how his people skills and business management skills look like. Even if Phil managed to pass all his classes and graduate from those schools it'd basically go to waste and the only value he'd be able to get from an Ivy League degree is to be able to say that he's an Ivy League graduate.
Phil said during the debunk yesterday that he was using the 170k a year to pay off student loans from his business degree, so it would've been more student loans.
If he had gone to such an elitist school he would have never finished whatever education he started. But he would have racked uzp even more debt (or hobbled his parents with debt)
Nothing. There are plenty of people who go to prestigious universities and colleges and don't end up doing anything important at all. There are plenty of people with PhDs who can't find decent work anywhere.
Maybe if he had gone and really applied himself and networked and was surrounded by the right kind of people he may have ended up very differently though. But I am pretty sure he already got involved with the FGC before even going to college, which probably reduced his already low IQ by a good 10-20%.
Yeah nothing would have changed. He went to a private (albeit Jesuit) college and didn’t take advantage of the 2 reasons you do that, the prestige and the networking. So his desire of appearing successful put him into more debt, as he might as well just go local if he’s paying out of pocket. Probably would have had more fun at say UConn paying $5k a year vs $20k to get the same outcome.
There’s also the deflection of blame when it comes to Ivy schools, as if either a long winded rambling essay or a bad interview didn’t sink his chances on getting in as much as any DEI/AA reason.
He would have flunked out. The way he talks about his shitty Jesuit school no way he could handle whatever workload an Ivy League school would have (Basing this on the assumption that these schools are work intensive).
Agreed. He flunked out of the computer science degree, because it had the audacity to ask him to study on his own. He clearly learned nothing from his "business degree", therefore we know, the only way DSP could actually graduate is when the only requirement is paying tuition and showing up.
I'll give Ivy League schools the benefit of the doubt, that that's not enough (unless you have really deep pockets to grease the wheels a LOT).
The centerpiece of his gaming backdrop would his framed acceptance letter. Not a diploma because I don't believe he could manage to graduate before the money ran out.
