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Most Expensive Colleges In USA: GW #1
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Date: January 26th, 2008 2:59 PM
Who the hell would pay that much to go to GW??
Top 5 1. GW 2. Kenyon 3. Bucknell 4. Vassar 5. Sarah Lawrence
Proof that higher the price doesn't mean better the education.
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Date: January 26th, 2008 6:09 PM
All you fuckers like to rag on the University of Southern California because of our price tag. But at least we ARE prestigious, and our tuition is worth it because you're attending an elite university.
GW on the other hand in a fucking piece of shit. Who the fuck spends $39,000 to attend a school that isn't even in the Top 50?
At least USC is a legitimate Top 30 elite institution. |
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Date: January 26th, 2008 6:24 PM
I'm no fan of GW or many of the other colleges on that list, but they charge that much simply because they can (ie people are willing to pay, so there is a market). |
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Date: January 26th, 2008 6:34 PM
For one, most top employers and companies, or most prestigious jobs like management consulting and i-banking usually cut off at Top 30 institutions (with few exceptions, like Boston College or NYU). If you don't go to a Top 30 school, or NYU/Boston College, you're fucked if you want to get a prestigious management consulting or i-banking job.
Second, most people I talk to agree that the prestigious schools are generally Top 30. Most also agree that schools below Top 30ish are generally TTTs (again, with exceptions, like NYU).
So yeah, there's definitely a gap between Top 30 and Top 50.
It's similar with law school too. There's generally a wide prestige gap between schools in the T14 and T25 (again, with some exceptions, e.g. Vanderbilt and UCLA which sometimes are considered on par with T14 law schools). |
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Date: January 26th, 2008 9:41 PM |
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Date: January 27th, 2008 11:11 AM
It's part of our culture. I'm not afraid to admit it. It's all about competition and pushing to make each other better.
Plus, if you want to become a part of the power elite of society, it's mandatory to go to a prestigious school (especially since you're Asian). And even if that's not your goal, if you're Asian, and you don't go to AT LEAST a Top 30 school of NYU, you're fucked.
I say this because many of my Asian friends from DECENT state schools (mid tier UCs) are struggling to find work despite graduating. Many of my friends from UC Irvine, UCSB, etc., have struggled to find jobs and had to resort to go to UCLA or USC or Berkeley for grad school in order to land good jobs.
Asians from Cal States and lower to mid tier UCs have to compete with all the Asians from Berkeley/UCLA/USC/UCSD to land all the good jobs--and there are only so many good jobs going around in ultra competitive California.
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Date: January 28th, 2008 12:37 AM
Re: that power elite thing - it's not. It might get you into the middle class, maybe even upper middle class, but it's not getting you upper crust if you're not already there.
The only way to go from lower or middle class to upper class is by entrepreneurial spirit. Entrepreneurship isn't the kind of thing they teach you in schools.
Also, to stereotype horribly, asians tend to lack social and networking skills, so they bomb interviews more than other groups of people.
Once you get outside the top 10 or 15 schools, no one cares where you went unless it's devry or some festering toilet.
State school in your home state > "somewhat prestigious" LAC when it comes to hiring. |
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Date: January 28th, 2008 2:11 AM
And don't fucking try to play this game that there are only I-Banking/Consulting jobs and that's it. A slim number of kids at BC/USC are taking those positions. Yeah, kids in the business school, perhaps, but people get jobs in other fields. Duh. |
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Date: January 26th, 2008 3:35 PM |
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Date: January 26th, 2008 4:13 PM |
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Date: January 27th, 2008 8:59 AM
You're right about that, but I think there's a legitimate question of whether the cost is worth it--which really can apply to any private university, including the top schools. The only reason I ever went to a private school--albeit one that is considered a TTT on this board--is because I got a hefty financial aid package. Otherwise I would have had just stayed in-state. |
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Date: January 27th, 2008 10:55 PM |
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Date: January 28th, 2008 12:43 AM |
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Date: January 27th, 2008 10:18 AM
When I applied to college in 1997-8, Kenyon was a noticeable few grand cheaper than the eastern liberal arts colleges. |