UCB<UCSC? So says PhD.

MOS25V10
Mon, 19 May 2008 17:31:39 +0000

Not as much as you’d think.

From article “Stop the Madness” by Jonathan Alter in Newsweek’s “How to Get Into College 2008”.

“I still cling to what I call the “300 school” theory of success in America-that students can attend any of 300 or so colleges and receive a terrific education and even a leg up in the struggle to get ahead…The idea that a student is doomed to second-class status if not admitted to one of 10 or 20 or 50 schools is at odds not only with several studies on the subject but with my own informal observations”.