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what did he/she major n wat GPA did he/she get?</p>
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<p>If I made more money than just about everyone I grew up with, I’ll be satisfied with that alone. I don’t care about anyone else. How many people you know are going to make 300,000+? Less than 1%.
No one here envies Bill Gates even though we all know that we’ll never be as rich as him.
No one really comes in contact with the super rich anyway, so no one is going to kill themselves to try to fit in with them. As long as you’re noticeably better than the the public, you’ll get your respect.</p>
<p>Money, money, money.</p>
<p>So many people on this site are so concerned with all these things.</p>
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<p>Wat career is taht?</p>
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<p>Y did MSU make u happy more than UM?</p>
<p>Money matters because if you have enough money you can do whatever the hell you want. People have to respect you whether they like it or not. You get all the perks. Of course people care about money!</p>
<p>And no, I see no rational reason to hold nonmonetary motivations up higher than monetary motivations. Give me one good reason. One good reason that is not “humans are arbitrary and capricious”</p>
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<p>The environment for one- student and living environment. I am not a city girl, I am much more of a country girl. Ann Arbor= huge city, MSU= very much nature-oriented. I am very laid back and UMich is hyper competitive, which is not for me. MSU had a Residential College that I fell in love with which had no equal at UMich. There was a plethora of variables that just made MSU a better match <em>for me</em> (btw, I had a full ride at MSU as well so money was not an issue).</p>
<p>First of all, my bold statement at the beginning was clearly a hypothetical, exaggerated so that you might actually begin to understand/ accept a counterpoint to your “all motivations are equal” stance, which you stubbornly hold. Of course, such sophistication can hardly be expected to be understood or recognized by anyone on this site, and it was unfortunate that I forgot to temper my language as if talking to a 5th grader - my apologies.</p>
<p>And I gave you several good reasons already.</p>
<p>But I don’t care what your life’s goal is. Go chase around collecting bottle caps for all I care. I was trying to warn others that the pursuit of money may prove a fruitless and ultimately unfulfilling (even superficially) choice. If you disagree, well then, carry on. Hell, tons of other people are pursuing money anyway. Go for it.</p>
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<p>your username is very appropriate</p>
<p>but you cannot save everyone</p>
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<p>just wondering, was the full ride need based or merited?</p>
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<p>Combination. I have about 15k worth of academic scholarships a year through outside scholarships, MSU and UMich both more than made up the difference through federal aid and academic scholarships. (I have a pretty unique background that opened up a bunch of scholarship opportunities). When I first got my FA packages from MSU and UMich, they both met full need before my outside scholarships came into play (again, through need and merit). I actually got more merit based aid from UMich than I did from MSU lol.</p>
<p>The school you go to matters, but usually not that much and not in the ways people think. You make connections at school . . . and some schools are truly superior in some programs. The mistake people make with the Ivys is believing that they are superior to every other college in every single program. Well, they aren’t. And even in the ones where they are superior, in most cases you can still “make it” in life just as well or almost as well after going to some other school.</p>
<p>I’m dubious of the whole concept of a “dream school.” Going to college should be a means to an end (to get a job or get grounded in the classics or whatever) . . . not the end in and of itself.</p>
<p>Undergrad according to my sister, is not that big of a deal. She said that it matters where you go to school, but it’s not as important as people make it. What really is important is doing well in undergrad so that you can get into a top grad school because those are the ones with the best research. Of course if you go to a school like Harvard for undergrad then that is kind of a big deal, but if you go to a 3rd tier school that is fine too. My friend knew a guy who went to Stanford that is now homeless.</p>
<p>^ Geez that must suck for that guy. But life goes on. Too short to spend our time wasting away on picking “better” schools when they won’t help you that much in real life as your personality and special talents would. What would you do with so much money anyway? Buy a ferrari? Mansion? Or would you donate to charity like many of the elite rich folks do to help those kids in Africa who usually down nothing more than 2 grains of bread a night? Or those suffering night and day from incurable diseases that only ultimately end in death? Money can do lots of things no doubt. But how you use that money makes you more of a human than how much money you have. Money can’t buy everything. A family for example. Sure you could be rich but college is only 4 years of your life. Would you want to live the next 60 years alone in your 50 room house?</p>