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This brings up a question about selectivity of said schools…are they very selective because of demand (i.e. they have a name for themselves because they happen to be located in very grossly populated areas–most are), or because they are just that much better of a school than any of the others (so even if they only had 3 applicants, they would only take .5 of them)? I think a lot of “selectivity” is misleading, because “highly selective” schools are not always “better” schools per se, but just have happened to find themselves being applied to a lot more than other schools–for whatever reason.

Example: Look at the schools in states of lower population levels: Montana, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, etc… are any of them “highly selective”? Does this mean that these schools are lower quality, and produce less capable students? I would think not!

thoughts?

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Education is what you make of it, true, but these days there aren’t as many top jobs to go around, and going to a well known school helps. It’s elitist, and snobby, and all that, but it’s true. Deal with it.

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So any school with a top flight, well known football program would suffice here… (i.e. Nebraska, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Auburn, or Alabama)

Kansas state is “non-competetive” for admission standards, and Nebraska and the rest most likely fit into the 70-90% acceptance range. Ofcourse, ask anybody if they have heard of these schools, and most would probably give you a nod.

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Do you know of any good midwestern universities that are good for LD students?

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LD students?

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Students with a learning disability. Sorry, I’m not familiar with any universities that could cater to an LD student. There are probably many of them out there, but I haven’t done research on it.

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I’ve heard Muskingum (Ohio) has a good program for LD students.

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My school pays students to take notes for LD students. In fact, this guy in my statistics class last semester was too lazy to take notes, and would rather come to class high as a kite, so he got a dr. to sign off that he has ADHD, and had notes taken for him for the semester while he just sat in the back with squinted, blood shot eyes!!

Also, I think a lot of public universities are required by law to cater (within reason) to LD’s.

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jenrik2714, try posting your question in the College Search forum.

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Not everyone is like that student you mentioned. My dd is a LD student who works her butt off just to understand the material. Things have to be presented to her in a different manner. She is going to college.

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I didn’t say that everyone is like that student…I think he’s a dumb@$$ for doing such a thing…I was just using it as an example of how LD students are assisted (even when they don’t have legitimate LD’s, or do–smoking weed is presumably a LD).

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A) This is the internet. Notice the inter. Why would I ever go to Illinois West, East, South… whatever when I can easily get into Binghamton NY, which is better than the compass points. Heck, I can probably get into any SUNY if I want except for the Cornell ones. Notice, I didn’t say Illi. N,S,E,W are bad schools, heck, I bet you get a pretty damn good bang for your buck if you attend them, but since this is international/national (my internet comment) then it makes no sense to mention non-flagship state schools.

B) What I don’t like about CC, just to show you I’m not biased, is that it makes Ivies seem so damn good, when they are so over-rated, especially the lower Ivies. Cornell is definitely on par, and worse in certain departments, than UIUC, Berkely, Austin, G-Tech, the list goes on. Same goes for Dartmouth, Brown and U-Penn. Yale, Harvard, Princeton are damn good in liberal arts, although I must say, hollistically, I don’t see what is so good about Harvard. UIUC Engineering beats them, so does their accounting department, and Michigan/Berkley are cheaper, and better in some departments.

In conclusion, College Confidential is a good site because it cuts the gobbledigook/b.s. from what college is about and which college is good. If they started to be politically correct, inclusive, and gobledigooky, they wouldn’t really merit the “confidential” in their title, and another website would emerge. Market demands, it’s all it is, and the internet is the best representative of market demands.