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I got a couple small scholarships to college but basically worked my way through myself. I was a Biology major and wanted to go to med school but between the work and the partying I never got in.
I took a year off and got into Kellogg business school at Northwestern. I also got accepted to Columbia. The tuition at Kellogg was something like $5,000 a year back then. It was the best move I ever made.
Wow, I’m floored by that 28% stat. The US is among the very very few countries that if someone wanted to go to college, it’s very attainable. if someone asked me that question, I would’ve guessed 55% or so.
Nothing guarantees success but Ivy degree helps a ton. From private school standpoint, Ivy schools are a relative bargain these days. all or most at or under 50k per yr – a figure matched or surpassed by a ton of so so to decent name private schools. For example, Lehigh is a decent school but it cost close to 45k per yr.
oh i know there’s definitely nothing wrong with a state college. i went because it was still a good school, and my financial aid package for it was great, coupled with some scholarship money, and then student loans. since i had to pay for it all myself, it was the only option.
the one thing about IVY league schools is that they all require a ridiculous amount of extra curricular activities right? im sorry, but some people just dont like extra curricular activities or had no time for them. i never understand why so much emphasis would be put on what you did outside the classroom. i mean i “get” it, but i dont understand why it would be so weighted heavily? i joined a few after clubs in high school solely for the fact that it was frowned upon if you didnt. i much prefered to have an after school job and make money. and/or play video games before i had an after school job.
do you know i was in the environmental club? talk about irony!
what clubs / extra curricular activities were some of you in?
i was in spanish club, environmental club, student council, and peer group therapy. they all sucked.
Grades are arbitrary. a 4.0 avg at random city high school quite often doesn’t hold a candle to a 3.0 at random college prep highschool.
And you can say all you want about how public school kid and prep school kid receive the same education, and the prep school kid is afforded more opportunities because of money – but i went to college with so called “honors students” from city schools with 4.5 gpas and what not, and they could barely write an term paper, let alone construct a sentence properly.
Is it even disputable that as a whole, NYC public schools are atrocious?
**waiting for comments about my spelling/grammar/sentence structure**
I got a couple small scholarships to college but basically worked my way through myself. I was a Biology major and wanted to go to med school but between the work and the partying I never got in.
I took a year off and got into Kellogg business school at Northwestern. I also got accepted to Columbia. The tuition at Kellogg was something like $5,000 a year back then. It was the best move I ever made.
Rob, same deal here. I chose college that I could afford. was working 37 hr per wk for a few semesters to fund the tuition.
BRG…generally the hot Spanish guys are NOT in Spanish Club. Therefore I’d have no reason to join either.
The first Earth Day occcurred when I was in high school so there was no such thing as Environmental Club.
WTF is peer group therapy??????
Wow, I’m floored by that 28% stat. The US is among the very very few countries that if someone wanted to go to college, it’s very attainable. if someone asked me that question, I would’ve guessed 55% or so.
Nothing guarantees success but Ivy degree helps a ton. From private school standpoint, Ivy schools are a relative bargain these days. all or most at or under 50k per yr – a figure matched or surpassed by a ton of so so to decent name private schools. For example, Lehigh is a decent school but it cost close to 45k per yr.
“i was in spanish club, environmental club, student council, and peer group therapy. they all sucked.”
Re-write potential with DIBS in mind.
oh i know there’s definitely nothing wrong with a state college. i went because it was still a good school, and my financial aid package for it was great, coupled with some scholarship money, and then student loans. since i had to pay for it all myself, it was the only option.
*rob*
the one thing about IVY league schools is that they all require a ridiculous amount of extra curricular activities right? im sorry, but some people just dont like extra curricular activities or had no time for them. i never understand why so much emphasis would be put on what you did outside the classroom. i mean i “get” it, but i dont understand why it would be so weighted heavily? i joined a few after clubs in high school solely for the fact that it was frowned upon if you didnt. i much prefered to have an after school job and make money. and/or play video games before i had an after school job.
do you know i was in the environmental club? talk about irony!
what clubs / extra curricular activities were some of you in?
i was in spanish club, environmental club, student council, and peer group therapy. they all sucked.
*rob*
Nothing wrong with a state college Rob.
Are you aware of the percentage of americans that have completed college, any college?
Well, here, this may open your eyes: The 2004 census states that only 28% of those over 25 have completed a bachelor’s degree.
Now go pat yourself on the back for your accomplishment and have a great day!
Grades are arbitrary. a 4.0 avg at random city high school quite often doesn’t hold a candle to a 3.0 at random college prep highschool.
And you can say all you want about how public school kid and prep school kid receive the same education, and the prep school kid is afforded more opportunities because of money – but i went to college with so called “honors students” from city schools with 4.5 gpas and what not, and they could barely write an term paper, let alone construct a sentence properly.
Is it even disputable that as a whole, NYC public schools are atrocious?
**waiting for comments about my spelling/grammar/sentence structure**