@lostaccount I understand and agree with most of your comments but am having trouble understanding what you mean by this >>>>> “Further, some schools have more distractions and fewer top notch engineering students then others-so synergistic possibilities are lower. In some schools you find that there is a greater chance that strong engineering students end up with non-engineering degrees than at other schools. All told, two equally strong students, one beginning at SLU and another at GT will (very likely) end up looking very different 4 years later.”
Are you saying that because the student bodies are different, Student A may get more distracted at the school with fewer top students?
They are more apt to party their way out of or slack off in engineering at the lower ranked school?
What are “synergistic possibilities”?
Why would there also be a greater chance that Student A might end up with non-engineering degree at one school but not the other? I would almost think the opposite as maybe GT engineering is tougher than SLU engineering so Student A might be more apt to be weeded out at GT.
Why or how would Student A very likely look different after 4 years at one school versus the other (aside from maybe the GT program is a bit more rigorous)?
I am not trying to be critical I just don’t understand the points and logic here.