<p>there wouldn't be, if you're talkin about an M.D....a medical degree is a medical degree...there's a discrepency between DO and MD though...</p>
<p>that's the beauty of medicine....still don't know why i'm not fulfilling my parents' wishes and persuing it...ah well...i have 6 months to decide what i wanna do sooooo....:)</p>
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hmmm type is important.....it'll be 10000 times harder to get in to a good med-school/law-school/any other type of grad school coming from a local, tier-3 college...say you graduate with a 4.0 from my hometown's local Bluefield College, or Bluefield State
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<p>I agree with you on that. However, most of the folks on this board are deciding between Ivy or equivalent vs. flagship state U with merit scholarship $$ or honors program. In those cases, not a great deal of difference.</p>
<p>"Graduates from state schools and community colleges will still do ok for themselves in our world! "</p>
<p>are YOU saying graduates from UVa, UCBerkeley and UMich just do "OK"?</p>
<p>Nahrafsa,
I was about to say ... Yeah ... Mom says there are a couple of "Charles Emerson Winchesters" at her hospital, but most of the doctors didn't go anywhere "prestigious" and they're second only to the lawyer/politicians in wealth. The lawyers pretty much all went to State U as well. Neither professions' kids seem to lack in material benefits (spoiled brats) and they sure as hell aren't like me in needing scholarships for college. I don't think any of the new rich entrepreneurs went anywhere particularly prestigious either though it does seem like there's a "good ol' boy" network of those who went to the Citadel. We do have some super rich old money people who have winter homes here, but their kids go to northeastern prep schools and I assume most of the smart ones must go Ivy. Then again, one of my scholarships is in memorial to the son of one of those families and he died in a boating accident while on spring break from Florida State. I suppose some of their investment bankers must've gone somewhere Ivyish ...</p>
<p>even at the state schools, there's honors programs and opportunities to max out your experience there.</p>
<p>right now I have the feeling that where you go for your undergraduate education really doesn't matter, as long as you do well</p>
<p>Please NEVER catagorize state schools with community colleges, unless you mean tier 3 state schools and even then NO-that is just plane ignorant.</p>
<p>if i'm not mistaken, UVa, Berkley, Ann Arbor, UCLA, and UNC are top tier schools...and they're state schools...Degrees from any of these institutions is comparable (but not quite equal) to a degree from an Ivy...</p>
<p>I always find intense ignorance towards state schools on this board.</p>
<p>You've heard of Georgetown, Tufts, Wake Forest, USC?</p>
<p>UVa, UMich and UCBerkeley are better than each of the 3 private schools above. so stop messing around with state schools.....</p>
<p>I'm with ya all the way Untilted...but University of South Carolina is a state school</p>
<p>for certain careers where you went to grad school will matter. Where you went to college rarely matters (except for getting into grad school). As far as financial success, the richest person I know is a HS drop out. bill Gates dropped out after one year of college, I believe. </p>
<p>Unless you're going to a trade school, college is as much a social and personal growth experience as much as it is the academics. to that end, the particular college is important as to how it fits YOU and so you'll get the most out of it. The most acclaimed, prestigious, selective school doesn't mean much if you hate being there.</p>
<p>As someone said above, once you get your first job, your schooling usually doesn't matter. It seems to then come up only during college football season and for the NCAA basketball office pool. </p>
<p>I do suppose though where you went to school may matter in terms of one of the major factors for success in the job market -who do you know. Usually, fair or not, who you know can outweigh what you know. To that end, in many circumstances a particular job market may well be dominated by the graduates of the local college and they could care less if you went to Prestige University.</p>
<p>And as far as these "contests" of what's better state or private, Ivies vs. Stanford etc. etc. you might as well argue about whether chocolate ice cream is better than strawberry. these are totally subjective views to which there are no real answers. A great example of this is the two posts above. the first refers to USC, which the next poster presumes is U of South Carolina. I presumed, being from California that they meant U of Southern California. It's all in the eye of the beholder.</p>
<p>College will hopefully give you certain skills, teach you how to think and analyze and so you'll be employable and be able to tackle whatever comes your way in life and the best college to get that experience IMO is at the school that fits YOU best.</p>