<p>Thoughts on it?</p>
<p>I have literally never heard of this college.</p>
<p>Seeing as the admit rate is 95.7%, I would say this school is nonselective.</p>
<p>EDIT: So apparently USNWR thinks this is one of the U.S.'s best colleges. lel.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of it before, I think because it was mentioned as one of the few public liberal arts colleges. Test scores look pretty low.</p>
<p>My friend insists that he has it “on good authority” that it’s “highly regarded by employers”.</p>
<p>It’s kind of a shame because he’s legitimately smart and I’m pretty sure he’s not gonna get a job after he graduates.</p>
<p>Well, it’s accredited and everything. People have gotten jobs coming out of worse places.</p>
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Cue eye roll.</p>
<p>Okay yeah maybe he’ll get a job but considering that he has ridiculous expectations w.r.t. the level of luxury he wants to experience in life, he’s gonna need something more than just “a job”.</p>
<p>Whether he gets a good job will probably be based more on his own personal skills/how well he interviews/what he does with the opportunities available to him than where he went to college. Having a really prestigious degree gives you a head start, though.</p>
<p>The college is one of those belonging to “colleges that change lives” group of colleges. I am sure OP’s friend will do just fine despite OP’s misgivings.</p>
<p>[The</a> Evergreen State College | Colleges That Change Lives](<a href=“http://www.ctcl.org/colleges/evergreen-state]The”>http://www.ctcl.org/colleges/evergreen-state)</p>
<p>It’s in the book Colleges That Change Lives - lots of well known and successful people have graduated from there - the creator of the Simpsons for example. It is somewhat unconventional in that you design your own path depending on your interests. You have to have a lot of initiative to complete theat sort of curriculum, and that may be what employers value. Selectivity as measured by the number of those who apply who are accepted isn’t everything. TESC is more likely to be described as ‘self-selective’, since it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. (Slackers, or those who are only looking for a credential by taking the path of least resistance, for example.)</p>
<p>I would have hated it, personally, but I’m not their target student.</p>
<p>Brown allows you to pick any 30 (32?) classes and graduate.</p>
<p>Yes but it’s Brown, and when you go to Brown, you aren’t surrounded by people who went there because they couldn’t get in anywhere else.</p>
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Even if that were true, what difference would it make?
Most people actually don’t have the goal of attending a very prestigious college. Just people on this website.</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Well, I live in WA and know that a public LAC can go the way of William & Mary (technically not a LAC) or the way of a four year community college. I suggest Whitman as a more expensive alternative for a Washington LAC. If you are indeed instate, then UW would be a far safer choice for a public.</p>
<p>I do not want to sound mean or jaded, but the modern hippy element is rather prevalent in Washington State’s colleges. Many of the students (and professors) at my dual-enrollment CC transfer to Evergreen and were all for recreational mari…um, canibus.</p>
<p>“and were all for recreational mari…um, canibus.”</p>
<p>Don’t you get that pretty much everywhere, though? A lot of people in my school in Ohio smoke weed, though none of them have enough ambition to openly speak in favor of its legalization.</p>
<p>He was waitlisted at Whitman.</p>
<p>All I am pointing out is that Brown follows a similar curriculum of not requiring people to follow a curriculum but instead allow their students to pick classes.</p>
<p>Anyone graduating from any college needs to justify their education including those from Brown in order to get a job. There is not a single firm out there saying, “Wow you graduated from college XYZABC. When can you start?”</p>
<p>Yes - that’s true. However, with the lower quality of the education at TESC and the poor quality of the student body, what CAN he accomplish? I don’t think he’ll be competitive vs. students from most other universities simply because at TESC I don’t see any way for him to grow intellectually or to accomplish much.</p>
<p>Like they say: when you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.</p>
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<p>Illegally. There is a distinction between medicinal purposes, as in Colorado, and getting-high purposes, as in Washington.</p>
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<p>Oh, I apologize. I thought you were a student who hadn’t applied yet. </p>
<p>In that case, TESC has a decent reputation in Washington State in that many people have heard of it and recognize that it isn’t a podunk university. I would say it is second after UW for publics and third after Whitman. </p>
<p>As for graduate outcomes, it likely has an employable reputation within the Pacific Northwest.</p>
<p>“I don’t think he’ll be competitive vs. students from most other universities simply because at TESC I don’t see any way for him to grow intellectually or to accomplish much.”</p>
<p>To do what though?</p>