<p>I think you're missing the point. You're not relegated to a life of pandhandling if you go to Rutgers. Plenty of people who go to all sorts of less-than-impressive colleges get good jobs, lead successful lives, etc. However, Rutgers isn't going to impress people and isn't going to open doors for you that even a school slightly worse than Columbia would open.</p>
<p>I know that. What I am trying to say is that a Rutgers degree with a 3.5 GPA will probably mean more to an employer rather then at MOntclair State or Kean. No offense to people who go there. I do not expect a $100,000 job when I graduate. And I know that the degree will not open doors like a ivy leage degree would but it is a start if you graduate from a school that has National rep.</p>
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I know that. What I am trying to say is that a Rutgers degree with a 3.5 GPA will probably mean more to an employer rather then at MOntclair State or Kean. No offense to people who go there. I do not expect a $100,000 job when I graduate. And I know that the degree will not open doors like a ivy leage degree would but it is a start if you graduate from a school that has National rep.
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<p>The point is that Rutgers is notably inferior to other schools that OP should have applied to -- and might have been able to get into -- that are slightly less prestigious than Columbia. I've never heard of either Montclair State or Kean, actually.</p>
<p>Yes, Rutgers now has a national rep because of 1) the Imus incident, and 2) last year's football success. Prior to last year, I don't think people outside the northeast really would have much familiarity with Rutgers.</p>
<p>The Imus incident, btw, wouldn't have come around if the Rutgers women's BB team hadn't made the National Finals of the NCAAs. Them's was some damn good ballplayers, better than anyone but Tennessee.</p>
<p>BBoy, I think many posters here are unimpressed with your vision on remaining close to home/your gf. Those with the ambition and drive necessary to get in to a top school and make something of it will have their visions set beyond just their home state. Considering schools from around the nation that might be a good fit is par for the course. There was a time when Princeton was just a backwater that New Jerseyites went to and had little international reputation; that time was 100 years ago.</p>
<p>I understand that and somewhat agree. However I am a walking paradox; a beatnik realist and a romantic. Honestly, had my girlfriend gotten in to HY-etc and I got into Princeton and CU, I wouldnt chosen Princeton. So its not that that bad. If Rutgers were in NY and CU in NJ again, I'd go to CU. Oh well, 2 weeks - 2 months to go...</p>
<p>Rutgers is a school that has a better reputation the futher you go from the east coast, unlike most schools. Going to a school like Rutgers, don't expect to land a career job right out of college, but doing well at Rutgers will open up many grad school doors, which are all that matter in the end anyway, so its not terrible. I know many of my family members have went to Rutgers Undergrad and then top grad schools, i.e. Wharton MBA, Columbia MBA, NYU Tax Law. Rutgers is just a school that gets a bad rep from NJ people because they see it as a Arizona State more than a Michigan, which I argue, it leans closer towards the Michigan side.</p>
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Going to a school like Rutgers, don't expect to land a career job right out of college, but doing well at Rutgers will open up many grad school doors, which are all that matter in the end anyway, so its not terrible. I know many of my family members have went to Rutgers Undergrad and then top grad schools, i.e. Wharton MBA, Columbia MBA, NYU Tax Law.
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<p>1) no. grad school is not the be-all, end-all. a grad degree is neither necessary nor easily attainable. for b-school/law school, it can be quite expensive and often not worth opportunity costs of the money or time</p>
<p>2) getting into an MBA program, from what I understand at least, is less determined by where you go for undergrad as compared to what you do with the time between b-school and undergrad. tho i could be wrong, this is what i have been told</p>
<p>BboyTwizzy, you should be experiencing extreme feeling of guilt and embarrassment for not working harder in your high school career in order to attain admittance to a school that is worth going to. Now, your failed goal of romance have also undermined your future as a successful individual who has worth to society. You will roam the streets of Tokyo, urinating in public drinking fountains and stealing pigeon food.</p>
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The Imus incident, btw, wouldn't have come around if the Rutgers women's BB team hadn't made the National Finals of the NCAAs. Them's was some damn good ballplayers, better than anyone but Tennessee.
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<p>Yes, but WNCAA basketball gets horrible ratings and even casual sports fans wouldn't have known that Rutgers had made it to the championship game but for the Imus incident.</p>
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BBoy, I think many posters here are unimpressed with your vision on remaining close to home/your gf.
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<p>Exactly. He's not going to marry his HS gf. </p>
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Going to a school like Rutgers, don't expect to land a career job right out of college, but doing well at Rutgers will open up many grad school doors, which are all that matter in the end anyway, so its not terrible. I know many of my family members have went to Rutgers Undergrad and then top grad schools, i.e. Wharton MBA, Columbia MBA, NYU Tax Law.
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<p>You could do well at a far worse school and get into a good grad program. The point is that you'd have gotten in IN SPITE of a mediocre/bad college, not BECAUSE of it.</p>
<p>I'm new to CC but as a reader, I've been actively reading up. Columbia's my dream school. I come from the top school here in Singapore and I perform consistently about the median there. I'm about to enter my junior year; so, what should I pay attention to in the next year or two?</p>