Easiest Brand Name College/University to Get Into?
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Or who want Columbia without the Core. |
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| Wake Forest actually had a high acceptance rate for a top 30 school (important caveat), but it dropped considerably this year. Not sure if that's an anomaly or a new trend for them. |
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acceptance rates are pretty meaningless. did their 25/75 scores and yield jump up a lot? |
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A lot of these big football schools are harder to get into than you think. Partly because of the Flutie Effect and partly due to a lack of choices in their state.
Someone from Massachusetts is swimming in elite colleges. Someone from Florida basically has UF, FSU or Miami, and a handful of OK regional schools. Even the "top" schools in Florida are not particularly elite, but are harder to get into that you might expect because of there's not much better going on in Florida, and most people can't afford to go out of state. |
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| Arizona State is probably the best example of a school that's not difficult to get into (for undergrad, at least) but has a lot of recognition, and looks respectable enough to most people. |
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Your son will probably get an STD going there. |
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| Penn State |
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Those are third tier toilets. |
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Really? I thought it says, hey, I was too dumb to get into Arizona. Which is really saying something. |
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And couldn't get into Columbia. |
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ASU is a universal joke; a step above Phoenix online. If they offer computer science, I suppose that would make your kid employable; aside from that, no. |
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| Penn State has a lot of fairly competent rich kids that go there to party. Kids that telegraph a 'clubbable' vibe, via top tier sorority or fraternity house, do well in recruiting. |
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You know, after HS, the issue ceases to be where you got admitted and becomes what and how well you did in College. At which point if you're getting good grades in courses at Columbia, employers and grad schools really don't care whether your diploma will say Columbia College or Barnard College. |
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My goodness! A plumbling enthusiast! Since you are flush with information, could you share a bit about first and second tier toilets? Here's what I've found so far thanks to College Data, a veritable bowl of statistics: Last year Harvard's freshman class enrolled 1667 students. 99% had math SAT scores over 600 and 97% had reading scores over 600. So as a freshpoo at Harvard, you'd be swimming in a toilet with roughly 1650 students with SATs over 600. Does that make it a tier one toilet? Rutgers entering class was 7,706. 69% had math SATs over 600. 45% had scores over 600 in reading. At Rutgers you'd be with 5,317 students with scores over 600 in math. 3467 students with scores over 600 in reading. So, OK, you're not swimming with the biggest fish, but hell, remember Swimmy? UMass Amherst, let's see. A bit difficult to judge because the environmental standards brought about all those low-flow tanks, but I'll jiggle the handle. Freshman class: 5,162 students, 825 with Math SATs over 700 & 2,684 students with 600-700 total of over 3000 students in the freshman class with SATs above 600 in math. 2632 first year students with over 600 SATs in critical reading. Perhaps first tier toilets have a greater density of certain kinds of poo and I concede that if this is your meaning. As for the porcelaine thrones themselves, please lift the lid and share all. |