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Knowing what you do now, what would you do differently about chosing a college?

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Posted 2/6/2012 1:58 pm

I would have gone to a service academy. Either the Naval Academy or the Merchant Marine one.

I paid a lot to go to a private college I didn't like and which did me no special favors in terms of the real world.

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Posted 2/6/2012 1:59 pm

I was accepted as an early entrant at two colleges. The first one allowed no drinking on campus, and was pretty cramped.

Unfortunately, I went to the second one. :cry:

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:01 pm

BYU?

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:04 pm

ND?

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:05 pm

I went to a small rural Scottish school that had as its primary objective making farmers' sons literate enough to read the labels on insecticide bottles. No one had any idea how to prepare for Oxbridge entrance exams, or how to handle someone like me.

They dealt with me by turning a blind eye to my never coming in.

Knowing what I know now I'd have had the school get the application papers to get in to one of them and had my parents pay for tutors to get me up to the right level.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:13 pm

I think it's best to go to a college in/near the city you eventually want to have a career in.

That way, you don't lose your network from moving around. And your school's alumni network will be strong in the city you're working in.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:19 pm

I'd go to school in Santa Barbara, California. Sunny, warm, beaches, babes.

Instead, I went to college in upstate New York. Grey. Snowy. Rainy. Grey.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:23 pm

. said:I'd go to school in Santa Barbara, California. Sunny, warm, beaches, babes.

Instead, I went to college in upstate New York. Grey. Snowy. Rainy. Grey.

You ain't kiddin'.

I went to school in the geographic center of NY. Oh, and it literally got 12 feet of snow.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:24 pm

Shiny New Kid said:I went to a small rural Scottish school that had as its primary objective making farmers' sons literate enough to read the labels on insecticide bottles. No one had any idea how to prepare for Oxbridge entrance exams, or how to handle someone like me.

They dealt with me by turning a blind eye to my never coming in.

Knowing what I know now I'd have had the school get the application papers to get in to one of them and had my parents pay for tutors to get me up to the right level.

What a fucking bum. You'd have had others do more for you? Fuck you, you lazy gen-x/y/z piece of shit. Why can't you take more responsibility for yourself?

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:25 pm

. said:You ain't kiddin'.

I went to school in the geographic center of NY. Oh, and it literally got 12 feet of snow.

Syracuse?

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:26 pm : Edited 2/6/2012 2:28 pm

I'd have gone to the University of Texas instead of Texas Tech. Tech had/still has a much better engineering program, which is what I got my undergrad degree in. But UT grads are really good at sticking together and hiring their own. And of course Austin is a far better city than Lubbock.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:28 pm

. said:I think it's best to go to a college in/near the city you eventually want to have a career in.

That way, you don't lose your network from moving around. And your school's alumni network will be strong in the city you're working in.

Also have a game plan before going to school. What are you going to major in and why, what will your career be when you get out, how much $ to get the degree vs the opportunity cost of spending 4 years out of the job market, could you bootstrap a viable business instead of going to school for a quarter of the $ for school.

I would write a business plan for school as though I was writing a business plan to get a loan from a bank to start a business.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:31 pm

. said:Syracuse?

Hamilton.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:32 pm

Blinded by high status I went to a "name" college. Only lasted a semester.

Took two years to overcome the humiliation and go to a less well known school.

Looking back, I wish I'd gone to a junior college then a lesser school.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:33 pm

Shiny New Kid said:I went to a small rural Scottish school that had as its primary objective making farmers' sons literate enough to read the labels on insecticide bottles. No one had any idea how to prepare for Oxbridge entrance exams, or how to handle someone like me.

They dealt with me by turning a blind eye to my never coming in.

Knowing what I know now I'd have had the school get the application papers to get in to one of them and had my parents pay for tutors to get me up to the right level.

Some people think it's more important what high school you go to than what college.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:34 pm

I would have done better to transfer into a better school for my Jr and Sr years.

There is a lot of discrimination based on what tier school you went to.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:34 pm

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. said:I'd go to school in Santa Barbara, California. Sunny, warm, beaches, babes.

Instead, I went to college in upstate New York. Grey. Snowy. Rainy. Grey.

You ain't kiddin'.

I went to school in the geographic center of NY. Oh, and it literally got 12 feet of snow.

A friend was an adjunct for one year at SUNY Potsdam a miles south of the Canadian border. ONE YEAR. Never again.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:44 pm

. said:What a fucking bum. You'd have had others do more for you? Fuck you, you lazy gen-x/y/z piece of shit. Why can't you take more responsibility for yourself?

Because I was 14 when I chose my exam subjects. Teachers are SUPPOSED to know more and guide you at that age

Plus you can't apply to Oxbridge except through your school

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:45 pm

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Shiny New Kid said:I went to a small rural Scottish school that had as its primary objective making farmers' sons literate enough to read the labels on insecticide bottles. No one had any idea how to prepare for Oxbridge entrance exams, or how to handle someone like me.

They dealt with me by turning a blind eye to my never coming in.

Knowing what I know now I'd have had the school get the application papers to get in to one of them and had my parents pay for tutors to get me up to the right level.

Some people think it's more important what high school you go to than what college.

Look at the top echelon of UK society and more of them have Oxbridge in common than the top high schools

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:49 pm

Shiny New Kid said:Look at the top echelon of UK society and more of them have Oxbridge in common than the top high schools

True. I was thinking of the USA.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:52 pm

Shiny New Kid said:Look at the top echelon of UK society and more of them have Oxbridge in common than the top high schools

And yet you live in a 3rd world country, fucking child prostitutes.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:54 pm

. said:Some people think it's more important what high school you go to than what college.

Your college is on your resume until the day you die. Your college is also listed in every executive bio in business plans and corporate website profile.

High school is not.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:57 pm

Santa barbara is boring. Short answer is go to the college with the best reputation you can afford and that will accept you. It does matter for your first 1-2 jobs and that determines a good deal of your career that follows.

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Posted 2/6/2012 2:59 pm

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. said:Some people think it's more important what high school you go to than what college.

Your college is on your resume until the day you die. Your college is also listed in every executive bio in business plans and corporate website profile.

High school is not.

Good point

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Posted 2/6/2012 3:00 pm

. said:Santa barbara is boring. Short answer is go to the college with the best reputation you can afford and that will accept you. It does matter for your first 1-2 jobs and that determines a good deal of your career that follows.

THIS.

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