Wouldn’t a fair comparison be to Dartmouth engineering students then? Hard to find since they don’t admit by major, right? Just asking…
@Zinhead , to Postmodern’s point, the comparison is interesting, but clumsy.
If you took UI or UT stats for general admission, I wonder what would happen. I’m guessing the gap would be much wider. Consider that even Dartmouth cuts its athletes some slack (they do), so the Dartmouth gen. numbers includes people who slid in with “other qualities”. That dilutes things.
And of course, since we’re talking about business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School only serves grad students.
In any event, it is what it is. As I said, Texas and UIUC are very good schools. I would never describe them as “so so”.
“Either way, referring to Texas and UIUC as merely so-so is misleading.”
I completely agree. And more than that, I would score it as inaccurate.
Just for clarity, I’m not the one who wrote that they are “so so”. That was the OP I believe.
Maybe they mean “So, so very good”? 
“So so awesome”
"So so elite
“So so impressive”
“So so much better than the Ivy League”
@Postmodern , I like where you’re going with this.
“FWIW, “Financial Services” can mean branch management or a host of other bank functions that are not high paying or particularly interesting.”
Correct. Life at the branch-level of TD Ameritrade is anything but high-end.
If you’re planning grad school, go with the elite program at the so-so school. Kids get into grad schools from all sorts of undergrad institutions.