Do Penn State grads/current students carry a stigma?

[Anonymous]

No. Stupid question.

[Anonymous]

The SAT requirement is pretty low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"We love you joe!! We miss you Joe !!"
Look at the vacant expressions on the students faces . Doesn't speak well to the education quality and what mixed up priorities . It's actually kind of hilarious .


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpAJbFoax0

That's a funny video. Even though it's messed up.

[Anonymous]

Totally stupid question, and will take a stab and say that all of the people arguing "yes, of course it matters!" is NOT a hiring manager. Next.

[Anonymous]

Several of my friends from high school - really smart people - got graduate degrees from Penn State, and a third is a professor there now. None of them would lift a finger to defend the university conduct in connection with the Sandusky/Paterno scandal, and in fact they have other complaints with some of the departmental bureaucracy there. But they have good things to say about the academics, and my friend who is a biology professor there is a fantastic teacher and individual.

[Anonymous]

They don't but they should, imo.

[Anonymous]

My favorite was when the students rioted and turned over cars when scumbag JoePa was fired.

No cars were overturned for the decades of raped children in the football team house .

[Anonymous]

Listen to the This American Life episode about the party culture at Penn State. It's from 2009, but I doubt much has changed.
Episode 396: #1 Party School

[Anonymous]

I laugh at people who have "We Are Penn State" stickers on their cars on 66...yes you are...yes you are...

[Anonymous]

imo it's slightly better than Rutgers..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:imo it's slightly better than Rutgers..

Lol. That's not saying much.

[Anonymous]

You mean Pedo U?

Seriously - no other than on football message boards. There the reputation will live on forever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You mean Pedo U?

Seriously - no other than on football message boards. There the reputation will live on forever[/quote

But the football perversely influenced the university.

[Anonymous]

There is no stigma - at all. Anybody who says so doesn't hire people for a living. We hire Penn State kids every year and they are high achievers - they are generally competitive and work very hard. They also lack the entitlement that is pervasive in a lot of the blue chip private schools (which we also hire from every year) and routinely out perform those kids. If you want to build a company of high achieving, hard working grinders, you should hire kids from Virginia Tech, Penn State, Florida, etc.

OP, I would send my kid to Penn State in a second if that is where he or she wanted to go there - it's a great environment and a great college atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

It's not a stupid questions at all......quite thoughtful in fact. OP, based on the responses to your question there is clearly still a bias against the culture at Penn State which does reflect on the students that choose to go there over. Students self-select into that community over many equally good peer institutions so it says something about them and their values, right or wrong. As a parent I think you're asking the right question but of course it is just one variable in a multivariate equation. And FWIW, seeing pictures of the students rioting and blindly supporting Paterno (even until this day in many cases), does cast a negative light on Penn State grads rightly or wrongly, consciously or subconsciously.