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ur in pretty good shape, of course depends where you wanna go within UIUC, business, engineering, etc..</p>
<p>But the 1 deal is that you dropped from freshman year. That's the only con I see on your resume so far.
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I want to major in mathematics. So LAS.</p>
<p>I kind of started this fight back in post #7 by pointing out the different views of public and private colleges in the Midwest and Northeast. Then you guys proceeded to act out exactly those differences. </p>
<p>Tetrawhatever, please try to put yourself in the shoes of a Midwesterner like the OP...he sees people joining clubs to pad their applications to get accepted, and he sees them shelling out tons of money to private colleges to get a splashy name on a diploma. From his point of reference, the public colleges are as good as the privates. So the only expanation is sheer vanity and arrogance.</p>
<p>And bears, try to put yourself in a Northeasterner's shoes...everybody around you is begging, borrowing, and stealing to get in the best private schools, because the publics in the Northeast are mediocre at best. They aren't QUITE as snobbish as you'd think, because they are just following the herd away from the publics towards the best privates.</p>
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IT'S A PROVEN FACT THAT PRIVATE SCHOOLED STUDENTS ARE SNOBBY AND THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE REST OF US.</p>
<p>Hey, take it or leave it. I'm expressing what I think is true.
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<p>You're a college student who doesn't know the difference between fact and opinion? Scary what they let kids graduate high school without learning.</p>
<p>TourGuide446 and pananainpyjamas:</p>
<p>I think we've already buried that discussion.</p>
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<li><p>I am not officially a college student yet. </p></li>
<li><p>Prove me wrong.</p></li>
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<p>tetra's right, I was done with this thread b/c I realized I shouldn't have made a generalization of all people who go ivy leagues, etc..</p>
<p>And we both agreed that there are snobs out there, just probably not majority of them. </p>
<p>So yea, as far as I'm concerned, this issue is over with.</p>
<p>And Western Public Schools are any betterTourGuide446? (This isn't an argument, but a question)</p>
<p>Are Western public schools any better than what? Better than state colleges in the Northeast? It's probably not very relevant how public colleges in one part of the country compare to public colleges in another part of the country. What seems to be relevant is how the public colleges in a state or region compare to the private colleges in that same state or region...that sets the basic mood for people generally preferring one over the other.</p>
<p>So in a state like Colorado, the state colleges (U of Colorado and Colorado State) are good enough and interesting enough that the state residents generally seem very content with going there, and feel little need to pay several times as much for Colorado College, U of Denver, or other private schools in Colorado or in neighboring states (though there seems to be an adventurous and well-off contingent that goes to colleges in California). One of the smartest people I ever knew was from Colorado, and she had zero interest in going anywhere for undergrad or grad except U of Colorado in Boulder. That sort of attitude is extremely rare among residents of states like Massachusetts and New York, where the private colleges blow away the state colleges. University of Massacusetts-Amherst is a decent enough place, but when I graduated from high school in Mass. many years ago, it was almost a disgrace for my fellow graduates to go there (and I went to a crappy high school).</p>
<p>Pretty sure a lot of the people who posted here are just in denial because they don’t have any ECs themselves and don’t want to think that not having any can potentially hurt them.</p>