dr150
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It's all about the money. No need to WASTE valuable $$ at a hyped-up private school.
If you get good grades, you'll be employable. After that FIRST step IN the company, it's your professionalism and work ethic that will separate you from the herd for the promotions.
Going to UW is the right choice IMHO.
Grass is greener folks....especially for the wanna-bes. The ones that CAN excel, will DO regardless of institution.
Take it from a guy who's been in the same boat as Bleep.
If you get good grades, you'll be employable. After that FIRST step IN the company, it's your professionalism and work ethic that will separate you from the herd for the promotions.
Going to UW is the right choice IMHO.
Grass is greener folks....especially for the wanna-bes. The ones that CAN excel, will DO regardless of institution.
Take it from a guy who's been in the same boat as Bleep.
Good engineering school. I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison... whose football team perenially gets crushed by Northwestern.
Rumpltzer
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See, I didn't know Cornell is Ivy League until I was doing an internship up in Portland one summer and there was a collection of interns from Cornell. Their entire lives and conversations tended to be exclusively about Cornell, and it was the first time I'd ever encountered anything like it. It kind of got on my nerves after a while (although, I suppose it shouldn't have... it's not that great of an engineering school... and we were all engineers).
So, one day at lunch as someone mentioned how Cornell is Ivy League, I brought up how I had no idea of the fact. They were in complete disbelief. In order to determine if I just had no clue at all, they decided to quiz me on which schools are and are not Ivy League. They brought up about a dozen schools and I correctly identified whether each was an Ivy League institution. Then they got to Brown University. I wasn't completely sure about Brown. I mean, I've heard of it and stuff, and I know of its reputation... but I wasn't sure.
In complete honesty I said something to the effect of, "Well, if Cornell can be Ivy League, I suppose Brown can be too." They took a lot of offense to that, and I thought it was pretty funny.
I went to UIUC for undergrad and masters and then a year of PhD work. MIT and Stanford and Berkeley are consistently better ranked, but I could afford Illinois (I paid my way--no money from the parents, I mean).
I moved to UC Santa Barbara when my PhD advisor died at Illinois to work with a certain professor. UCSB is not as good a school as many, but the research I do here is the best I know of and I am mostly happy about the decision. The facilities and library and administration (not the faculty) are pretty horrible. I'd avoid it as an undergrad.
I'm going to the University of Washington right now. My SAT was a 1390 and my h.s. GPA was a 4.0. I'm looking at going to GMU or Univ. of Wisconsin for law school, LSAT was 165 and GPA is a 3.2.
My three top choices were USC, UW and Berkeley; my second choices were UCSD, UCSB, and WWU; I got into every one except Berkeley.
Chaotic42
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I applied to:
Ole Miss, Miss State, Louisiana State, University of Southern Alabama, University of Southern Mississippi, Georgia Tech, and MIT.
I got accepted to all but MIT. I got scholarships to all of the first 5, I chose Ole Miss. I'm now reapplying to USM.
ACT:29
SATI: 1300 (IIRC)
GPA: 3.4
Ole Miss, Miss State, Louisiana State, University of Southern Alabama, University of Southern Mississippi, Georgia Tech, and MIT.
I got accepted to all but MIT. I got scholarships to all of the first 5, I chose Ole Miss. I'm now reapplying to USM.
ACT:29
SATI: 1300 (IIRC)
GPA: 3.4
I was but I hated it. I'm in computer integrated manufacturing technology now. Its a better fit for me. I really didn't care about the theory, I'm more of an implementation person.
Texas A&M College Station. And the gpr is not good right now, not good. All my fault but getting better.
Originally posted by: Broohaha
duke sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(used to go to unc)
I want to go UNC (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill).
Originally posted by: lager
Originally posted by: Broohaha
duke sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(used to go to unc
I want to go UNC (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill).
No you don't.
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: lager
Originally posted by: Broohaha
duke sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(used to go to unc
I want to go UNC (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill).
No you don't.
Why? Do you go there and you don't want me attending the same college?
got that straight... hot damn. i had no idea you were here... are you staying in the dorms? what classes you taking?
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