How do you pick a college? Rice v USC

[cobrat]

The area that Abe attended USC underscores the fact that college is what you make of them. For a country like Japan where degrees from a top university is considered an asset and these prime ministers didn’t go to one means a hell of a lot.

To an extent, yes.

However, his path was considerably eased by the fact he comes from a family with a long lineage of well-connected politicians. His grandfather and father were and that factor facilitated his marriage to another political family with the father-in-law who was a Prime Minister from the late '50s/early '60s and notorious for being a Class A War Crime suspect for his role as a colonial administrator in Japanese occupied Manchuria during the war.

If he was an average Japanese person with the same academic record, it’s unlikely he could have broken into Japanese politics the way Abe did.

Anyone I wish peppermint well at Rice. Both of my nieces in Houston went to Rice, I believe in the Texas it’s considered in the same league as Harvard.

I also wish peppermint well at Rice. And that level of academic renown isn’t limited to Texas from what I’ve seen…especially in academia and older generations who know their elite colleges.

[Daddio3]

Then again, maybe they were shocked by the neighborhood because there is nothing like it in all of Japan, so he left in fear for his safety. :-). BTW, Rice was my kid’s first choice and he didn’t get in. Campus is gorgeous and he loved the res colleges.

[mom2and]

Congrats and good luck!

[DrGoogle]

Post #80, probably the same in most country. Why did Bush have to go Yale? Why do some Princelings from China have to go to Harvard? If we apply that logic.

[Daddio3]

Good luck @peppermintgum !