<p>OK, I’ll just project and answer posts based on who else may be reading from now on…get a grip, anyone reading forums should be prepared to read the truth. And yes, there have been several posters who object to my brand of truth. But many, many more fill my PM mail box daily with requests for my honest opinion.</p>
<p>You know, undoubtedly there are kids out there who are shocked to learn SDSU is a 4th tier school. In the world they live in it’s a great college and they think they’ll get a great job by just going there. You seem to be saying the proper thing to do is to allow them to keep thinking this. Why? So truth and disappointment doesn’t hit them until it’s too late to correct their course?</p>
<p>I grew up with no money and uneducated parents thinking SDSU was my dream school. A plain talking teacher pulled me aside and told me a place called Wharton was actually a better business school than SDSU. I was stunned. In my world going there was certain to make me rich and famous. Since it was the dark ages I had to go to three libraries to find books to confirm this. I’d never heard of Wharton, but one woman got me there.</p>
<p>Although there probably are people with the misconception that SDSU is some school that will automatically land them some great job do you think it’s right to inform them that they will essentially not be successful because they are going there instead? For some people SDSU or other “mediocre” schools you’ve disparaged are the biggest accomplishments in their life. When someone passively writes it off as some trivial thing it can be pretty crushing.</p>
<p>Those with delicate constitutions should keep off anonymous messege boards where people can and do tell the truth. Boards like this allow people to say what they wouldn’t say in the high school parking lot or at the grocery store. This particular site was founded to discuss ivy league schools. The average reader has big ambitions and wants to know how to achieve them.</p>
<p>You should absolutely worry. The US is losing it’s edge to countries with a fraction of our wealth who are educating their populations much more effectively. We send kids to colleges best known for their daily parties and they wonder why they can’t get good jobs. It’s because the jobs they used to get are now held by kids in India and China.</p>
<p>I’m quite worried as well. Google is now loaded with Chinese and Indians who went to Stanford/Cal for their PhD’s. This is only the beginning. </p>
<p>I see it as a lack of a good primary & secondary education in the US. I think the best public education in the US is still no match for the type of intensive education that kids from Asia are getting. The kids in Asia study for like 12-15 hours a day in primary/secondary school. University kids study 17-18 hours a day. How many hours do kids in the US study? 18 hours a week would be on the high end.</p>