one year later--it doesn't matter

Ray192
Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:21:12 +0000

One year? Come back to us after the full four years. I know several people in the ivy leagues who didn’t develop enthusiasm after a year of introductory classes. Then they got to do research with nobel prize winners and people of that caliber in super high-class facilities. Needless to say their opinions changed a lot.

Of course, that name on the diploma, no matter how superficial it may seem, does matter, though moreso with graduate work. Think about it this way, you’re a great student either way, but what is more impressive to employers and graduate school, a reccomendation from a good-but-not-renowned professor in a small college, or one from a nobel lauerate in an ivy school?

Nobody will say that ivy schools will make a person, but it does matter to an extent.