Education vs. "Doing Own Thing"

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http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~jsimon/Wh...geIsRight.html

When advising students on how to select a graduate school, I usually tell people to "go to the best place that will give you money"; in other words, go to the best place that will accept you with the expectation that you will succeed strongly (not minimally). The same advice seems appropriate in selecting a college: go to the most demanding and competitive school in which you're likely to do very well.

http://www.positions21.com/Positions...d_Lithman.html

That's some 23 yr old blogger. Are you serious?

Here you go, here's a paper by a Harvard Professor...
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/fac...pers/whole.pdf

the University of Phoenix is a "on-line" school that advertises on cable tv. and to think you were getting on to me for comparing KSU to Harvard. that's like compareing a little league team in Ga to the Yankees and say, "See people up north can play baseball better."

You were the one who said "you might as well get a degree online." Also I didn't say anything about you comparing KSU to Harvard that was somebody else.

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I went to UGA.

So did you have any classes with 900 people in them?

I make baseless accusations? you just told me that going to football games can get you a job! come on...

Now you are putting words in my mouth. I said that one of the things you miss out by going to a small school is big time athletics and that I do get asked about it when people find out I went to Michigan. How you infered it will get you a job out of that is beyond me.

ya know, this is getting old.

I like others here that I've quoted believe school is what you make it. you apparently think the "size" of the school is the key to success.

you have your opinions I have mine. it doesn't look like either 1 of us is going to change it. lets end this disscusion.

I think part of the problem is we are arguing two different things at the same time. Without a doubt in my mind it is worth it to go to a big name school as in prestige not size of the student body. There are many scholarships available for students who can't afford it and you get a better quality of education IMO. Most of those school also happen to be large schools population wise. I think a lot of people are needless put off from these schools because of fears of all the crap you've been saying. A large school might not be for everyone but a lot of the reasons people give are simply not true. I'm not saying that it's best that everyone go to the biggest school population wise but if you have the opportunity to attend a selective/big name school like GA Tech or UGA you should do it IMO.