<p>He mentions that his office is sending out 18,000 emails today...I thought the decisions would be posted on their website...are we also getting emails?</p>
<p>At first I thought it was a good article - well-written and made sense. But somewhere towards the end it became a little snide. In effect, he was saying "oh, you might do ok even if you don't get into a great school like Stanford". Something a little snide and obnoxious about the tone. </p>
<p>And yes, I do believe that Stanford drops to the bottom. Because the bottom-line is what you do with your education. It's not a badge you wear and people move out of the way for you because you went to Stanford. Check out the resume of Senator Fred Thompson - from a very poor familiy, not a chance of going to hoity-toity Stanford - went to Memphis State. He's a brilliant lawyer and great politician. My opinion of Stanford dropped after reading Shaw's piece (and we share the same undergraduate college).</p>
<p>I felt the same way BigGreen. Also, the scientist went to UC-Berkeley and then MIT. Uhh...those are amazing schools! He didn't suddenly lose out with those schools. It's not like it was that much of an underdog story. It's not like he went to a community college or something.</p>