I turned down Harvard, Princeton and Stanford for Berkeley's Physics programme

eudean
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:14:36 +0000

People, these arguments are ridiculous. It’s people like you that enable groups like US News to make so much money on something as silly as college rankings. Fact is, if you’re a good student, it doesn’t matter where you go. I know someone that attended Seattle University (ever heard of it?) for MSE. Oh no, he’ll never succeed in a non-prestigious university! Except that he got a 3.9 and is now attending Stanford for graduate school (and that’s BS that Stanford isn’t on par with Berkeley/MIT in engineering).

A better question than “Is this is a good university?” is “Am I a good student?” If the answer to the latter is “yes”, then former won’t hold you back as much as you may think. If the latter is “no”, then the you can go to Harvard or Oxford or Princeton and you still won’t have a job when you graduate.