<p>I have got into the following schools (Most Major=Undecided)
Considering possibility of not being transferred into College of Business.</p>
<p>Should I even go to these schools?
I mean, I could be better off doing plumbing or something…</p>
<p>Penn State-Universitry Park (Here major is Environmental Resource Mgt.)
Indiana University-Bloomington
Texas A&M
SUNY-Binghamton
University of Iowa
Purdue
University of Connecticut</p>
<p>Maybe you should be a plumber. I don’t understand your question. It’s a fine list of schools which have their own strengths. You need to figure out how you will make that decision (and I hope it’s not by asking flippant questions of people you don’t know).</p>
<p>These are good schools, and many highly successful people have graduated from them. It sounds as if you bought into the whole Ivy/prestige thing and then didn’t get into any of the very selective places. Believe me, many people from these schools are doing better than many people from the “prestige” places. Pick one, go, make the best of it.</p>
<p>OMG those schools are horrible…:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Plumbing can be quite lucrative…if you have the right combo of entrepreneurial/ physical skills you can forgo the college education and be quite successful…many people do it…</p>
<p>What are the cost differences between your college choices?</p>
<p>“I mean, I could be better off doing plumbing or something…”</p>
<p>That may be the case even if you were to go to an Ivy. Plumbers are in short supply, and are able to make lots of money. Guaranteed.</p>
<p>It also takes about 5 years including apprenticeship and training to become a plumber.</p>
<p>So, if you don’t like your choices, become a plumber. Just be aware that the training probably will require more hard work of you than you’d have to put in at any college.</p>
<p>I think electrician is better and has more prestige. Also usually better working conditions. Plumbers have to deal with some nasty stuff and work in cramped dirty sapces.</p>
<p>With business as a potential interest, if you do decide to go to college, I’d do Indiana. </p>
<p>But plumbing isn’t a bad choice either! Good money in plumbing. Electrician is good…and I know that garbage men actually make great money.</p>
<p>Another vote for plumber. You’re going to be miserable at those colleges, with the chip on your shoulder that is so evident. A big waste of money and time on your part, and taking a seat that someone who wants to go there could have had.</p>
<p>^ LOL…yeah, routing new copper plumbing under a 70 year old crawl space in 100 degree heat should make him quickly forget the misery he’d endure studying at one of those colleges…</p>
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Being a sparky requires more training and workplace risk, since the work can be more esoteric with hidden dangers.</p>
<p>You can also be a welder, longshoreman or oil refinery operator…no college degree required and you can make a ton of money with very good benefits.</p>
<p>Plumbing most definitely.</p>
<p>advan05, I hope this is not a serious thread. You have some good schools on that list.</p>
<p>Hope he gets sarcasm too.</p>
<p>Penn State is one of the finest public universities in the country.</p>
<p>You’d be crazy to want to “be a plumber” instead–doubly so if you’re in-state</p>
<p>As a member of the American Welding Society (no joke), I second the recommendation of welding. Who <em>wouldn’t</em> want to work in a career that involved electricity, violently bright light, and molten metal??</p>
<p>Just… be careful about those hydrogen embrittlement effects, there.</p>
<p>Dude. It totally depends on your butt crack.</p>
<p>^ Good one, smokeydokey. Haha.</p>