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07-09-2008, 11:05 PM
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| Yeah, yeah, if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Cliche. Do you honestly think that if you took the students 1 to 1 from your state school, they would match up at Harvard? Do I have facts? No, I have common sense. If you would provide me with the name of the school you attend, I would gladly look up high school credentials, acceptance to grad schools, and so on.
leah377, UNC, UVA, and Michigan were next in that "etc." list. Your baseball team isn't too shabby either.  | 
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07-09-2008, 11:10 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
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Yeah, yeah, if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Cliche. Do you honestly think that if you took the students 1 to 1 from your state school, they would match up at Harvard? Do I have facts? No, I have common sense. If you would provide me with the name of the school you attend, I would gladly look up high school credentials, acceptance to grad schools, and so on.
leah377, UNC, UVA, and Michigan were next in that "etc." list. Your baseball team isn't too shabby either.
| Just because somebody doesn't go to an "elite" school does not mean that they can't compete with somebody at an "eltie" school. There are some students who are capable of going to "elite" schools, but they are not as lucky as you to have parents who are willing to pay $180,000 on an education. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:11 PM
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if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Cliche
| Cliche, and also a very true statement. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:14 PM
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#34 | | Junior Member
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| I don't understand how people who go to "elite" schools think they are smarter than everybody that goes to state schools. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:18 PM
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There are some students who are capable of going to "elite" schools, but they are not as lucky as you to have parents who are willing to pay $180,000 on an education.
| Thats why there is such thing as financial aid and at elite schools, they usually meet 100% of need (or somewhere close). | |
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07-09-2008, 11:20 PM
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Thats why there is such thing as financial aid and at elite schools, they usually meet 100% of need (or somewhere close).
| Some students don't qualify for financial aid and can't afford $180,000 on an education. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:21 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
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| I think anything in the USNews top 100 will give you a great education. Hell you can be equally sucessfull coming from a tier 4 college. It all depends on what you plan to go into and what your degree is in. Let's not forget it also depends on the person, you need people skills, interview skills and just to understand how life and people work. If you cannot realate to others, chances are you won't be sucessfull whether you went to a community college or Yale. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:24 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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| i agree that it's not really the college you attend, it's what you make of your time there. name recognition helps, but so does determination. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:24 PM
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| I think anybody can be successful coming from any university. It is more important what you do with your degree than where you got the degree. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:29 PM
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| If they don't qualify for financial aid, don't recieve merit scholarships, and don't take out loans, then the next best thing would be a state university. But why do you see fewer people like that at state universities? They recieve or choose one of the above. If they didn't, enrollment would be down at top universities. And to attract these high achieveing but needy, elite schools have begun eliminating or reducing tuition for certain incomes.
I do agree with the last three posts, but I think that name recognition makes it easier than if you went to some obscure no name university. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:35 PM
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I do agree with the last three posts, but I think that name recognition makes it easier than if you went to some obscure no name university.
| There is no such thing as a no-name oscure university. And yes, I am going to call you an ignorant person. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:36 PM
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If they don't qualify for financial aid, don't recieve merit scholarships, and don't take out loans, then the next best thing would be a state university.
| Exactly. There are people who could have gotten to "elite" universities that go to state schools. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:39 PM
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There is no such thing as a no-name oscure university. And yes, I am going to call you an ignorant person.
| There are about 4000 colleges in the US, how many can you name? | |
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07-09-2008, 11:41 PM
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There are about 4000 colleges in the US, how many can you name?
| I could proably name about 150-200..
That's doesn't mean that a college that I can't name isn't a good college. | |
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07-09-2008, 11:42 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
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There are people who could have gotten to "elite" universities that go to state schools.
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