Should I Bother Applying To Top Schools?

50N40W
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:56:37 +0000

1350 on the SAT can still get full tuition at a few schools. Not that many, though.

A friend’s wife is an engineer and an exec, and did undergrad at a flagship then graduate school at the prestigious engineering school across the river from Boston. I’ve seen 3-4 people approach them about how to get Snowflake into MIT as an undergrad.

Their answer is always the same: Don’t waste your time. Do your undergrad at a respectable U, work really really hard and absorb as little debt as possible, then apply to grad school at the Magnificent Technical Institute (or wherever).

I feel this is excellent advice.