Shiz.. HS going down dumps

[Xcobra]

Originally posted by: SnowyEnigma

Originally posted by: tec699
Seriously though, when you're job hunting I doubt that going to a top tier college is going to land you that dream job. I would think other factors such as grades, resume, interview, people skills, would have a greater impact.

Top universities offer valuable experiances that more affordable ones don't nessesarilly have. For example WPI and Northeastern both have Co-Op programs which would give you the nessesary experiance out of college to land a good job (which usually require experiance).

thing is that even if I had gotten into a top college, i wouldnt have been able to afford it, i can barely afford going to a public university!

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: SnowyEnigma

Originally posted by: mugs
The real tragedy here is that there is a public school where a person with your command of the English language is in the top 10% OR the top 5% of his class.

Wthe the fvck is wrong with my english? Am I writing some damn essey here? NO. I'm just communication on a forum using basic phrases and psuedo sentences and phonetic spellings ( don'g feel like opening up words for difficult words) to convey my thoughts. Openning word to do some spell checking takes too much effert, and I'll probably loss my thought as to what I'm writing when I go through a grammer check. Gesh... Anandtech is so critical of the english language for mostly math orientated people... And this would actually be an offense to a lot of asians. I know, not at my school, but at North Quincy HS the whole 10% of the class is mostly compressed of asians who speak in some awkward asian accented dielect. They're awsome people non the less. So LAY off the freaken grammer whoring.

You belong around the 70th percentile at best.

 

[anno]

Originally posted by: Xcobra

Originally posted by: SnowyEnigma

Originally posted by: tec699
Seriously though, when you're job hunting I doubt that going to a top tier college is going to land you that dream job. I would think other factors such as grades, resume, interview, people skills, would have a greater impact.

Top universities offer valuable experiances that more affordable ones don't nessesarilly have. For example WPI and Northeastern both have Co-Op programs which would give you the nessesary experiance out of college to land a good job (which usually require experiance).

thing is that even if I had gotten into a top college, i wouldnt have been able to afford it, i can barely afford going to a public university!

in south carolina, being in the top 5 (I think it's 6, now) % of your graduating class and having supporting test scores and extras is worth 6700/year at public university.. so it's worth cryin' over a little if you just miss it, I guess..

anno

 

[TraumaRN]

Consider this: I goto an 'affordable college'

Place called Oakland University...for nursing school. I applied to the University of Michigan got in there too, but choose OU because they offered me more money. I get average grades in college, about a 3.3 or so, however a year before I get my Bachelor's my career path is absolutely solid, I'm guaranteed a great job. Why? Because I networked, I begged, pleaded, and did everything humanly possible to advance myself, now I work at the number one trauma hospital in Detroit, I work there now as a student nurse, and basically I could work at any other hospital in southeast michigan with barely a question asked. Why? Because it's about the best experience you could get.

I'm only 20 years old but I think that too many kids focus on grades and such instead of trying to seek out experience, and people who can further them on a career path. I've never joined a student organization on campus at my university again pointless, they dont look at those sorta things for the most part when they hire, all they care is you have a degree whether it's from joe blow university or harvard. And just cuz you got a degree from a big name university doesnt translate into more money. Just some things to keep in mind I think.

Focus on getting into college, focuson a degree and do everything you can to gain experience towards that degree before you graduate.