<p>Prestige matters but so does GPA. It’ll be a lot easier to get a high GPA at UT than a highly prestigious school.</p>
<p>Would you rather be in the top 1% of your graduating class inside McCombs or go to MIT and be nowhere near the top of the class because there are so many extremely intelligent people there as well as tougher classes.</p>
<p>Magicman–actually the Ivies are notorious for grade inflation. They want all their kids to go to top grad schools, so they give them higher grades. I believe Princeton recently capped the number of As in a course at 60%–before that it was common for a professor to give 90% or more As.</p>
<p>UT generaly requires students to do top level work to receive an A, rather than simply show up.</p>
<p>you mean that Notre Dame’s football program is the UT of Indiana right???</p>
<p>Man I am confused. Is UT Yale, Notre Dame or Harvard? I thought it was just UT. Funny.</p>
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<p>That’s funny.</p>
<p>Why would it be funny if it’s the truth? Personally I don’t see how the Ivies sustain the top spots on their rankings. MIT and Cal Tech are, in my guileless opinion, much better institutions in innovation and rigorous schedules. You know the system is a farce when alumni from these prestigious institutions are writing extensively on the futility of the system. Of course, I won’t deny how they procured their spot in said institution, but it has been confirmed many times that those colleges suffer from grade inflation, a sense of entitlement because family members have connections, etc. And, for the guy who made the snark remark about UT deluding themselves in terms of their prestige - get real. UT excels in many of the fields it is graded on, such as engineering, and yes, our law school is the Yale of the south. #15! Not even some higher ranked colleges have obtained that individual standing.</p>
<p>Quite simply put, the people who matter (grad schools, job recruiters) recognize your program over your institution. For example, UT engineering and business are actually regarded much higher than many more “prestigious” colleges’ programs who don’t measure up. You may not get the impressive factor from the average person you talk to, but when it comes down to the important things, a successful UT graduate from certain highly acclaimed departments measures up, if not surpasses, the “prestige whores.”</p>
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<p>Telling yourselves what?</p>
<p>Put it this way hiya, your school will only matter if you become a politician or a US News editor, lmao.</p>
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<p>I can’t tell if that was supposed to be insulting or not…if it was it’s incredibly ironic given where it’s coming from.</p>
<p>but what if we actually do have aspirations to become a politician?</p>
<p>It was a joke you bow legged cow boy, get a grip.</p>