Anyone attend an "elite" college/university?

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I go to Columbia. Woo hoo. Got into MIT as well. Wanted Harvard, but alas I was rejected. Looking back I didn't do nearly enough EC's. Oh well, I wouldn't trade my Columbia experience for anything now.

Aspies unite, and infiltrate the ranks of elite higher education!

Nope. Go to the University of Hawaii and it sucks, IMO. I'm a third of the way through a Master's and am tempted to quit.

Nope. Seton hall University, recently chosen America's Number 1 Party School.

Yale, Ph.D. program. Recently got my M.Ph. en route.

But I don't make a big deal of it. The School of Hard Knocks is very enlightening too.

I was accepted there, but I couldn't go because it would have cost $59,000 total.

Tim

haha I live in Hawaii. What sucks about it? I can gander a guess, but I want to hear what you say about it. What campus are you going to, btw? I assume it's Manoa.

All Masters programs suck. That's a universal constant.

Nope and never checked up on it either. Some people think I could have gotten into a higher level school though.

Speaking of University of Hawai'i. I was just there in March. Manoa Camps, of course.

Anyways, don't go to an "elite school". Don't think i had the grades and GPA to get into those kind of schools. I go to Eastern Kentucky University.

I am a student at an 'elite' liberal arts college, but I'm not comfortable saying which one.

I think that how good your education is is simply a matter of how much effort you put into it, not where your college is ranked.

Sure, I mean I've learned far more outside of school than in school, but unfortunately in our superficlal society, where you go to school can have a large impact on career/graduate school options available to you in the future.

yeah it does. it determines whether or not people will think of you in the same way they think of this dude on the office.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUz4RnoWSM[/youtube]

LOL. That parody is pretty spot on. However, you're kidding yourself if you don't think people with Ivy League/top 25 educations have a giant advantage.

I don't think people are denying that fact. The question is whether you yourself will perpetuate that reputation-based advantage in your own hiring practices and judgments of people in the future.

Actually, the bigger advantage is a myth perpetuated by the elite colleges to get more people to apply. Just ask Steven Spielberg. ButchCoolidge's no doubt been through Columbia's indoctrination process.

Mikho! Yes, I go to Manoa because Hilo has about five master's programs total. The thing that sucks is I'm an outer island student, and as you may have heard, life suffers in every way living on an outer island. Same way for school. I'm expected to produce the same quality of work as the Oahu students with a fraction of the resources. Their library is open 24 hours - ours is open a few days a week. Stuff like that.

Their Kokua office is awesome, though!

Also it's mostly online and distance ed, which is subpar IMO. It is one of the reasons I'm moving to Oahu - so I can finish my degree taking real classes.