getting into college like HYPSM, is great, and a good achievement. but its like being a 1st round draft pick, you have potential and youll prolly make a little more $$$ early on. but if you dont perform, youll be a bust, plain and simple. cuz ur life’s achievement is determined by what youve done for the field, or for humanity, in your ultimate career.
because i believe things like college (and not getting into the one you want) is overhyped.
<p>/me blinks</p>
<p>you still ain't justify why college is overrated.</p>
<p>I'm not wanting to go to a good college for money. I'm going because they have a good dept. in what I enjoy, Economics.</p>
<p>Awesome! This will make a perfect essay topic! Thanks! :)</p>
<p>anytime krabble. yeah, colleges definitely vary in their ability to enhance your intelligence, but the way people treat trying to get into college, it seems like college is viewed almost like a be-all-end-all indicator of future success.</p>
<p>this was just motivated by the myriad of chances posts on this site, people talking about "hooks" and asking what they should be doing to get into college XYZ, which is a bad, and unfortunately common, attitude.</p>
<p>overrated as in overhyped. not overrated as in unimportant.</p>
<p>kinglin has the right attitude (lol as if im the ultimate judge of what you should do).</p>
<p>definitely overhyped.. but this IS CC after all, what else can you expect?</p>
<p>just thought it would be nice if the opposing viewpoint could be heard for a change. the media hypes it up too.</p>
<p>(like the Matrix sequels. if you were hyped up for them to be better than the first, you may have been disappointed, but if you werent, they were pretty damn good)</p>
<p>wait, so even if u do get into a good college, good graduate, and make good grades the entire way through, u might still end up in the same engineering/scientist position that someone with a state school undergraduate education is in also.. so does that mean u just wasted a quarter million and lik 6 yrs of ur life?</p>
<p>not to mention having fun in high school....</p>
<p>It so sad that some people think the only reason anyone ever goes to college is so that they'll make more money...</p>
<p>Ask anyone at my school and they will give you other reasons.</p>
<p>That;s why a lot of people preach about going to a school that is "right" for you, NOT just for a brand-name. The school you go to does not make a person's success. It's up to the individual. Now, I do believe going to certain schools can open more doors down the road (like between an IVY/top tier and a state school). I'm not saying that going to a state-school is bad. Having already worked professionally in the real world for the last twelve-plus years, I can honestly say IT DOES matter (at times) where you go to school. However, 99.9 % of it is up to the individual and their personality/motivation, etc.</p>
<p>the school you go to does not MAKE a person's success, but it can play a big part in nurturing it. clearly, always being around HYPS professors and students would mean that you are continually having intellectual discussions, learning new viewpoints, in just speaking with people who can give you a greater understanding of the human condition.</p>
<p>and then that opens doors, yes, and you'll earn a better starting salary. but if you don't live up to the potential you showed by going to that aforementioned school, then what? examples being Enron executives on the street. on the other hand, if you can exceed the perceived poor potential from going to a not-so-great school you can end up just as well off a few years down the line. i.e. the founders of Intel, who went to Arizona State.</p>
<p>im just sorry that high school kids get caught up thinking that your college will make or break your life.</p>
<p>i have a friend who wanted to go to MIT, but he was rejected from all the ivies. he was still accepted to Carnegie Mellon though, a college that nobody would sneeze at. but because he felt dejected and a failure from his previous rejections, he convinced himself that he wasnt worthy to go to a school better than rutgers. so now hes going to be going to rutgers. it saddens me to see someone unable to pick themselves up from defeat and have the will to overcome.</p>
<p>well said...</p>
<p>If you are a person with the drive and motivation to succeed, you will more than likely succeed no matter where you go to school. The "school" part of it may make a difference if you are competeing with other applicants at a company and all other applicants went to a state school and you went to an Ivy/top tier...that may put you over the top and land the position. Regardless, it's NOT going to ever hurt you to go to an Ivy/top tiered school, that's for sure.</p>
<p>SATS are OVERRATED</p>
<p>I know reports show that SATACT scores have no correlation with how a student succeeds in college.</p>
<p>Although the college doesn't actually make someone successful, it does boost one's chances in success if one goes to a well-known college.
Suppose we have a Student A and then clone him/her (expecting that they have the same character traits, intelligence, etc.) and call the clone Student B.</p>
<p>Student A goes to ivy league school > Student B who goes to community college </p>
<p>Student A definitely would be more successful than Student B unless Student B invents something or does something like that, or if Student A gets involved into a car accident, get mental illness, you guys know what I'm talking about... So the bottom line is that the individual and not the college makes you successful.</p>
<p>Exactly, but as I've stated, going to an Ivy WILL NOT hurt your chances for success :)</p>
<p>Where you can be important when starting out in your career.Going to an Ivy or an elite school can definitely help you get your feet in door. However, once you have been working a few years where you went to school will nto matter as it will be all about the quality of work and being able to deliver.</p>
<p>Hey, sybbie. I haven't seen your posts in a while. Good to see you're still around!
Exactly...when interviewing with a company, without even meeting you, an employer can look at your resume and if an Ivy/Top-tiered school is on there, he/she will, by default, know you are assumably bright.</p>