College Question

[IHateMyJob2004]

You live in NY? You better not waste your time/money at a state school. You'll end up being a CAD artist, not an engineer. Go to a real school for engineering or move to a place like CT where you can go to Conn Univ which is a state school with an excellent eng program.

 

[Parasitic]

I was forunate enough to have Berkeley as my state school. Was going to take Northwestern Mudd or even USC (scholarships) over.
Although now that I think of it Northwestern might have been a better choice. Stupid Berkeley and the unspoken (most of the time) policy about not admitting their own undergrads into the grad program in the same department.

 

[Casawi]

In the real world it doesn't matter, but it might help getting that job in first place. A good engineer is a good engineer regardless what school you go to. There is school around the world that don't compare to universities in the states, but they still produce good engineers. Just my personal opinion.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i def dont think its worth the extra amount, but i went to cheap state school so there's my bias

if you are going for Law or MBA, then I think it IS very important to go to a top tier (read expensive) school