S/o I have a lot of respect for ASU

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

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Anonymous wrote:No you are thinking of the University of Arizona UofA
ASU is a good school nothing like you describe
Your post is laughable, where did you learn your critical thinking skills? Some cesspool California Junior "college"?

Nope, you're both right! I'm from AZ, I went to one, my sister to the other, plenty of young family at both today. Both schools are full of mediocre students from around the country, mostly California (or just anyone who would have liked to have gotten into a cali party school). Yes, there is attrition due to addiction. Yes, there are academic deficiencies on arrival (I know firsthand about math, but from infrequency of writing assignments in gen ed classes, problems in that area are also profound). They are huge schools with plenty of opportunities, plenty of likeminded people to meet whatever that is in your case, but if you didn't come for for more years of HS with bigger parties, it will not be possible to graduate without some serious disdain for the prevailing culture. And, not the just the partying, the prevailing academic culture--
16% is the median so 25% a high A (no, these were not impossible tests by design, anyone who cracked a book could get above 90% without a curve).

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

Red herring. You should go back and read the posts above -- it's not about having on-line classes (yes they all do these days). If I read the above posts correctly someone can earn their degree at ASU entirely on-line and the diploma will make no distinction as to whether it was earned on-line or in the regular classroom?

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

Red herring. You should go back and read the posts above -- it's not about having on-line classes (yes they all do these days). If I read the above posts correctly someone can earn their degree at ASU entirely on-line and the diploma will make no distinction as to whether it was earned on-line or in the regular classroom?

Who cares. You want a dimploma to say... 2 years community college, 7 online classes.

Nobody cares.

I mean... really ... you know some people in Finance have History degrees from top colleges. That's more alarming than Accounting that was online from ASU.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure there’s some sort of “reputation management” sock puppet posting in this thread on behalf of ASU.

Yeah, someone in the DC campus seems to have been tasked with convincing east coasters that Swarthmore is in Tempe.

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The distinction between online degrees and traditional ones are eroding fast. As soon as Boomers and Gen X are no longer the majority of hiring managers it won’t matter.

Look down your nose at an online degree from ASU if you must, but more and more of your kids classes will be taught that way, and it doesn’t make much sense to pay a premium for living in crowded dorms and partying with your friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

Red herring. You should go back and read the posts above -- it's not about having on-line classes (yes they all do these days). If I read the above posts correctly someone can earn their degree at ASU entirely on-line and the diploma will make no distinction as to whether it was earned on-line or in the regular classroom?

Who cares. You want a dimploma to say... 2 years community college, 7 online classes.

Nobody cares.

I mean... really ... you know some people in Finance have History degrees from top colleges. That's more alarming than Accounting that was online from ASU.

Almost everybody cares. And full disclosure is necessary. Don't try to hide that you got your degree on-line. That is being deceptive.

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Anonymous wrote:The distinction between online degrees and traditional ones are eroding fast. As soon as Boomers and Gen X are no longer the majority of hiring managers it won’t matter.

Look down your nose at an online degree from ASU if you must, but more and more of your kids classes will be taught that way, and it doesn’t make much sense to pay a premium for living in crowded dorms and partying with your friends.

I took an online class in the 90's and then one recently. The videos that explained Economic concepts far exceeded any teacher I have ever had. Plus, I could rewind and listen again when a concept was especially complex.

I think online is much better than a bitter professor who is pissed his research is interrupted to lecture.

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

Red herring. You should go back and read the posts above -- it's not about having on-line classes (yes they all do these days). If I read the above posts correctly someone can earn their degree at ASU entirely on-line and the diploma will make no distinction as to whether it was earned on-line or in the regular classroom?

Who cares. You want a dimploma to say... 2 years community college, 7 online classes.

Nobody cares.

I mean... really ... you know some people in Finance have History degrees from top colleges. That's more alarming than Accounting that was online from ASU.

Almost everybody cares. And full disclosure is necessary. Don't try to hide that you got your degree on-line. That is being deceptive.

You care. Some bored SAHM's might care, but most hiring officials really, really, really don't care.

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The girls at ASU are something else.

If you’ve never visited, I recommend every guy visit there at some point. It is truly an icon.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. I toured this school. It is amazing. The president is a genius from the projects. He is blunt and assertive, but he doesn’t give a crap about the numbers and elite game. He even merged his online school with his university students. They are all his students. No one getting a degree online will have a different college name or thought of any less. (Try that out UMCP and “UMUC” and your shady numbers game.) He said he wanted 100,000 students of all ages, colors, and class, getting an education in his state. He hit the 100,000 two years earlier than projected (last year.)

My child from an elite private high school, on a massive scholarship that has become very apparent to the kids around her - loved it. She is over that game. It was a breath of fresh air. Even the orientation doesn’t give you the whole big song and dance every other college gives you. The kids are happy. Truly happy. Maybe it is the beautiful weather, maybe it is that their worst dorms are UVA and UMCP best. But I think the real reason is there is no entitlement or competition. They are offered an education and to make the best they can of it. The top kids not only get fantastic straightword merit packages, but are getting research and lab work freshman year that only the tippy top kids get elsewhere by junior year. The average kids are not meant to struggle and can get free tutoring. They can go in and out of schools and take the classes they want. The struggling kids that can’t afgord or need to help out at home, can move their classes online. No one is forced to live on the campus.

The Barrett honors college is what is considered their SLAC within a big university. Want a small liberal arts school? Want to be around very intellectual stimulating kids of all majors? Want a physics class of only 25? Want an advisor that truly knows your name? That honors college is number one in the country. He hired the old Swathmore dean to run it and it has thrived. The community has their dorms, dining hall, gym, classrooms, library, gyms, outdoor pools and volleyball courts. Faculty and advisors. Writing lab and tutors all in one location. It was well thought out.

They still have Greek, but they tore down all the old houses about 8 years ago and built buildings for them. They live all together with certain frats in x amount of halls/location. They each have community kitchens, meeting rooms, and very often plan events together or compete against each other in simple events.

The SESE school is unique and incredible. Hidden gem. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism is top notch. Graduate students are in the ASU building in DC. Fulton Engineering is massive with so many opportunities. Mary Lou Fenton Teaching College is one of the best in the nation.

It just makes me sick that this school got hit with the nasty comments. That bimbo is better off at USC with the other elite.

If a few nasty comments make you sick and you feel the need to respond on a random forum with a couple hundred words, you have some serious insecurities about the quality of ASU.

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Based just on this thread I'm afraid I have lost a lot of respect for ASU. Seriously, you can earn your degree there on-line?

Hey grandma! Every school has online classes now. Even top colleges. They also will take credit from out local community college. The horror!

Red herring. You should go back and read the posts above -- it's not about having on-line classes (yes they all do these days). If I read the above posts correctly someone can earn their degree at ASU entirely on-line and the diploma will make no distinction as to whether it was earned on-line or in the regular classroom?

Who cares. You want a dimploma to say... 2 years community college, 7 online classes.

Nobody cares.

I mean... really ... you know some people in Finance have History degrees from top colleges. That's more alarming than Accounting that was online from ASU.

Almost everybody cares. And full disclosure is necessary. Don't try to hide that you got your degree on-line. That is being deceptive.

“Almost everybody on DCUM cares”

Fixed that for you.

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Sounds like an open enrollment school with a bunch of online degrees. Fine for some I guess...

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Anonymous wrote:The girls at ASU are something else.

If you’ve never visited, I recommend every guy visit there at some point. It is truly an icon.

I searched for ASU on Instagram and this is literally the second thing that popped up. The talent at ASU is dumb as rocks, but hey there’s this: