Do you look down on people who graduate from a university that is 3/4 tier
Are you college institution snob
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 mybutterflydreams |
Are you college institution snob |
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Posts: 3435 (01/10/2009 3:56 PM) |
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 oneandahalf |
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Posts: 5660 (01/10/2009 4:21 PM) |
Not at all. I find my friends do this, though.
One of my friends goes to Pitt (I go to Penn State) and she's always telling me what a crappy school Penn State is. It really pisses me off. |
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mshinda |
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Posts: 5943 (01/10/2009 4:30 PM) |
When I was younger I was impressed by the idea of people who attended high-status schools (Stanford, Harvard, MIT, etc). Once you become an adult, you find
people who went to so-called average or run of the mill schools (or no college at all) who've done amazing things with their life or careers, and people
who went to top universities and ended up being slacker retards. So it's about the person and what they're made of, not the school they attended.
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JulieAnne20 |
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Posts: 28482 (01/10/2009 4:31 PM) Best Debater '09
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Not at all.
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IdDoJC100Ways |
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Posts: 24978 (01/10/2009 4:34 PM) |
Nope, not at all.
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MoralDesert |
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Posts: 3528 (01/10/2009 4:34 PM) |
ClubSoda8 wrote: |
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guesswhatelse |
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Posts: 24971 (01/10/2009 4:35 PM) |
Considering no one I meet has ever heard of my school and say they think it's "cute" after I describe it, I'd have to say that I absolutely
do not.
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Mistress Darcy |
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Posts: 6936 (01/10/2009 4:41 PM) |
No, but I have to admit I snicker a bit when I hear someone saying the online University of Phoenix is a great school.
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BlackStilettos |
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Posts: 23669 (01/10/2009 4:49 PM) JJB Fashionista '09
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mshinda wrote: Yep! I mean, Bill Gates said "fuck college", and look at where he's at now. The name of your school plays no part in where you end up in life. There are homeless Harvard grads, and there are millionaire graduates of Bumfuck University. |
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cant stop the beat |
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Posts: 534 (01/10/2009 4:52 PM) |
That would be one of the stupidest things to look down on people for.
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seaner23 |
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Posts: 6184 (01/10/2009 4:54 PM) Best Male '09
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i kind of look at it the other way. i feel bad for the people who think they HAVE to go to some top tier school and end up $200k in debt to get a good
education.
i graduated from a pretty good state school, with 0 in debt/loans and am pretty sure i got just as good an education as anybody else. college is just like anything else in life. you get out of it, what you put into it. |
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BlackStilettos |
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Posts: 23670 (01/10/2009 4:55 PM) JJB Fashionista '09
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ClubSoda8 wrote:Well, yeah. That goes without saying. But I don't agree that the average person needs a college education to do well in life. |
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cant stop the beat |
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Posts: 536 (01/10/2009 4:56 PM) |
BlackStilettos wrote:I don't either. |
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Fabolous44 |
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Posts: 5463 (01/10/2009 4:59 PM) |
BlackStilettos wrote: I'm no university snob, but I think if you looked at the average salary for people who graduated from Harvard and people who graduated from XYZ Community College, there'd probably be a significant difference. I think the college you went to often does have some effect on the job you get straight out of college. Obviously there are people who do really well from lower tier schools and people who do very poorly from top tier schools and this effect lessens as people get older, but on average I think there's a difference straight out of school. |
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PosterGirl2006 |
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Posts: 7957 (01/10/2009 5:02 PM) |
Not at all. I can't stand it when people are snobby about anything.
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cant stop the beat |
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Posts: 537 (01/10/2009 5:02 PM) |
ClubSoda8 wrote: Undergraduate is one word It should: our definitions of doing "well" are probably.. And what kind of phrase is "comes into factor"? Your degrees didn't do much for you. |
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Mrs Right Now |
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Posts: 25232 (01/10/2009 5:03 PM) |
Nope!
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Mistress Darcy |
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Posts: 6937 (01/10/2009 5:04 PM) |
And yet she will probably quadruple what you are likely to make...
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Sleepn |
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Posts: 15087 (01/10/2009 5:05 PM) Most Mysterious '08 |
i'm biased against community college / strip mall college educations.
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BlackStilettos |
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Posts: 23671 (01/10/2009 5:08 PM) JJB Fashionista '09
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ClubSoda8 wrote:Well, I do agree that in a lot of professions, an undergraduate degree isn't suffice. Hell, in some professions, a Master's isn't suffice. 
And who's to say our definitions of doing "well" is different. I wouldn't jump to that conclusion based on very little information. I'm no university snob, but I think if you looked at the average salary for people who graduated from Harvard and people who graduated from XYZ Community College, there'd probably be a significant difference. I think the college you went to often does have some effect on the job you get straight out of college. Obviously there are people who do really well from lower tier schools and people who do very poorly from top tier schools and this effect lessens as people get older, but on average I think there's a difference straight out of school. Well, yes, there is a difference. I'd be an idiot to deny that.  I
see statistics every day that back up exactly what you just said.
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Posts: 1281 (01/10/2009 5:11 PM) |
cant stop the beat wrote:damn
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