So, where are your kids starting college next fall?

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Anonymous wrote:My S who is interested in studying Econ broke my heart and chose University of Chicago over Duke (and Dartmouth and UVA in state) though it was a toss up between Chicago and Duke until the very last week (I'm a Duke alum and I think that wasn't a plus in my son's eyes). B/c Chicago gives housing preference based on date of deposit, my S is at the bottom of the barrel re: housing there but he doesn't seem to mind.

Chicago should be a no brainer in Econ.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/10/09/the-worlds-10-best-schools-for-business-and-economics-in-2017/#1a60f73c79bf

Any list of top ten economics programs in the world has Chicago on it, unusually in the 5-7 range. Duke is somewhere in the mid 20s through mid 30s.

Chicago has had 9 members of the economics faculty get Nobels. I am not an alum of either school and don’t have college age kids yet. But even I know your kid made a great call.

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Anonymous wrote:Most folks don't really know all the schools.

For instance in Mass most folks know Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard which are three of the four largest colleges in Mass.

But surprisingly to me at least UMASS Amherst is the largest college in that state.

I doubt most people even know the difference between Boston University & Boston College. Or UNC-Chapel Hill & NC State or Wesleyan (the highly ranked SLAC in CT) & Ohio Wesleyan. Or....

Most people probably couldn't accurately name all the Ivys either. My cousin from Boston, for instance, recently asked me if Providence was an Ivy League school. And he is highly educated!

So, yeah, just because someone (on or off this board) hasn't heard of a school or know that it is highly ranked doesn't mean that it isn't an excellent school.

Never said it wasn't an excellent school. Just low "brand" recognition.

ok. Brand recognition doesn't matter to most of us. That's not how to pick a school.

That's fine. But don't expect hiring managers to know all of the little, obscure schools.

employers know Davidson just fine, thanks.

No actually they don't.

+1 outside of the southeast it really is a no name school. That may not be fair but that’s the way it is.

Yes, no Davidson grads have good jobs outside the southeast

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

With that list? Likely someone not headed into engineering. And probably not CS. Neither Harvard nor UVA are Engineering/ CS superstars. For engineering, it would By VT, for CS, CMU and the UCs. In fact, I’m not sure what RPI and UVA have in common. Bio? Chemistry? Probably not Physics...

Pp here. DC is of sound mind. Physics. UVA is in state for us.

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Anonymous wrote:My S who is interested in studying Econ broke my heart and chose University of Chicago over Duke (and Dartmouth and UVA in state) though it was a toss up between Chicago and Duke until the very last week (I'm a Duke alum and I think that wasn't a plus in my son's eyes). B/c Chicago gives housing preference based on date of deposit, my S is at the bottom of the barrel re: housing there but he doesn't seem to mind.

Chicago should be a no brainer in Econ.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/10/09/the-worlds-10-best-schools-for-business-and-economics-in-2017/#1a60f73c79bf

Any list of top ten economics programs in the world has Chicago on it, unusually in the 5-7 range. Duke is somewhere in the mid 20s through mid 30s.

Chicago has had 9 members of the economics faculty get Nobels. I am not an alum of either school and don’t have college age kids yet. But even I know your kid made a great call.

My nephew was laid off from a job out of UC and had hard time regrouping. UC isn't all that. All their nobels can't pay off his loans.

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Anonymous wrote:My S who is interested in studying Econ broke my heart and chose University of Chicago over Duke (and Dartmouth and UVA in state) though it was a toss up between Chicago and Duke until the very last week (I'm a Duke alum and I think that wasn't a plus in my son's eyes). B/c Chicago gives housing preference based on date of deposit, my S is at the bottom of the barrel re: housing there but he doesn't seem to mind.

Chicago should be a no brainer in Econ.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/10/09/the-worlds-10-best-schools-for-business-and-economics-in-2017/#1a60f73c79bf

Any list of top ten economics programs in the world has Chicago on it, unusually in the 5-7 range. Duke is somewhere in the mid 20s through mid 30s.

Chicago has had 9 members of the economics faculty get Nobels. I am not an alum of either school and don’t have college age kids yet. But even I know your kid made a great call.

My nephew was laid off from a job out of UC and had hard time regrouping. UC isn't all that. All their nobels can't pay off his loans.

Laid off, or did to get tenure? Academia is a tough place.

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona College. We actually live in Claremont, CA but he will be living on campus. Hopefully the best of both worlds. He was given an amazing aid package, too.

NP. I love this school. My kid chose to go another way, but there are several admissions officers there that really believed in my kid and I am forever grateful to them for boosting her confidence. That school is amazing! I will be a Pomona booster forever!

Weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Most folks don't really know all the schools.

For instance in Mass most folks know Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard which are three of the four largest colleges in Mass.

But surprisingly to me at least UMASS Amherst is the largest college in that state.

I doubt most people even know the difference between Boston University & Boston College. Or UNC-Chapel Hill & NC State or Wesleyan (the highly ranked SLAC in CT) & Ohio Wesleyan. Or....

Most people probably couldn't accurately name all the Ivys either. My cousin from Boston, for instance, recently asked me if Providence was an Ivy League school. And he is highly educated!

So, yeah, just because someone (on or off this board) hasn't heard of a school or know that it is highly ranked doesn't mean that it isn't an excellent school.

Never said it wasn't an excellent school. Just low "brand" recognition.

ok. Brand recognition doesn't matter to most of us. That's not how to pick a school.

That's fine. But don't expect hiring managers to know all of the little, obscure schools.

Unfortunately, name recognition of schools really does matter to hiring managers.

My husband is a hiring manager at a large tech company. He generally throws out resumes from people who went to colleges he hasn't heard of. Now, the company is in the education space and he has worked in university administration, so he's heard of the vast majority of universities and colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona College. We actually live in Claremont, CA but he will be living on campus. Hopefully the best of both worlds. He was given an amazing aid package, too.

My daughter’s dream school. Good luck!

Pomona as a city is one of the worst cities in CA. Pomona and San Bernardino are the murder capitals of CA.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/20/local/la-me-ln-la-now-live-pomona-homicides-20130819-dto

Pomona College is in Claremont, dunce.

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona College. We actually live in Claremont, CA but he will be living on campus. Hopefully the best of both worlds. He was given an amazing aid package, too.

My daughter’s dream school. Good luck!

Pomona as a city is one of the worst cities in CA. Pomona and San Bernardino are the murder capitals of CA.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/20/local/la-me-ln-la-now-live-pomona-homicides-20130819-dto

I think you're looking for the "What are the murder capitals of each state?" thread.

Pomona College is in Claremont, CA and not Pomona, CA. Claremont is lovely.

Schooled!

This is one of the biggest problems with Pomona. No one's ever heard of Pomona College - outside Pomona. Everyone's heard about Cal Poly Pomona because their engineering dept. is nationally ranked.

Again: the school is in Claremont. It’s part of the Claremont consortium of colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Marquette. She got into the 6 year doctor of physical therapy program and is THRILLED!

I'm jealous I love Marquette.

I love custard. Seriously. Check this out.

https://www.kopps.com

As soon as you get off the plane, even in the airport, you feel the difference.

Do you know what I am talking about??

DP. Lots of fat folks?

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Anonymous wrote:Most folks don't really know all the schools.

For instance in Mass most folks know Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard which are three of the four largest colleges in Mass.

But surprisingly to me at least UMASS Amherst is the largest college in that state.

I doubt most people even know the difference between Boston University & Boston College. Or UNC-Chapel Hill & NC State or Wesleyan (the highly ranked SLAC in CT) & Ohio Wesleyan. Or....

Most people probably couldn't accurately name all the Ivys either. My cousin from Boston, for instance, recently asked me if Providence was an Ivy League school. And he is highly educated!

So, yeah, just because someone (on or off this board) hasn't heard of a school or know that it is highly ranked doesn't mean that it isn't an excellent school.

Never said it wasn't an excellent school. Just low "brand" recognition.

ok. Brand recognition doesn't matter to most of us. That's not how to pick a school.

That's fine. But don't expect hiring managers to know all of the little, obscure schools.

Unfortunately, name recognition of schools really does matter to hiring managers.

My husband is a hiring manager at a large tech company. He generally throws out resumes from people who went to colleges he hasn't heard of. Now, the company is in the education space and he has worked in university administration, so he's heard of the vast majority of universities and colleges.

This lady with arm-chair hiring mger husband is full of it. Her husband sounds like a fantasy husband too.

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona College. We actually live in Claremont, CA but he will be living on campus. Hopefully the best of both worlds. He was given an amazing aid package, too.

My daughter’s dream school. Good luck!

Pomona as a city is one of the worst cities in CA. Pomona and San Bernardino are the murder capitals of CA.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/20/local/la-me-ln-la-now-live-pomona-homicides-20130819-dto

Pomona College is in Claremont, dunce.

Pomona college still has unusual amount of sexual violence against women students. Bunch of perverts. Don't take my word for it. Google.

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Anonymous wrote:Most folks don't really know all the schools.

For instance in Mass most folks know Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard which are three of the four largest colleges in Mass.

But surprisingly to me at least UMASS Amherst is the largest college in that state.

I doubt most people even know the difference between Boston University & Boston College. Or UNC-Chapel Hill & NC State or Wesleyan (the highly ranked SLAC in CT) & Ohio Wesleyan. Or....

Most people probably couldn't accurately name all the Ivys either. My cousin from Boston, for instance, recently asked me if Providence was an Ivy League school. And he is highly educated!

So, yeah, just because someone (on or off this board) hasn't heard of a school or know that it is highly ranked doesn't mean that it isn't an excellent school.

Never said it wasn't an excellent school. Just low "brand" recognition.

ok. Brand recognition doesn't matter to most of us. That's not how to pick a school.

That's fine. But don't expect hiring managers to know all of the little, obscure schools.

Unfortunately, name recognition of schools really does matter to hiring managers.

My husband is a hiring manager at a large tech company. He generally throws out resumes from people who went to colleges he hasn't heard of. Now, the company is in the education space and he has worked in university administration, so he's heard of the vast majority of universities and colleges.

This lady with arm-chair hiring mger husband is full of it. Her husband sounds like a fantasy husband too.

Yup. In tech sectors, they generally don’t care about your pedigree when it comes to computer/software engineers, design, research & development, etc...
What is this so-called “large-tech” company? Even Facebook can’t keep their employees for longer than a couple of years - too much competition offering better packages.

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Anonymous wrote:My S who is interested in studying Econ broke my heart and chose University of Chicago over Duke (and Dartmouth and UVA in state) though it was a toss up between Chicago and Duke until the very last week (I'm a Duke alum and I think that wasn't a plus in my son's eyes). B/c Chicago gives housing preference based on date of deposit, my S is at the bottom of the barrel re: housing there but he doesn't seem to mind.

Don't worry about the housing. My DC took it down to the wire and ended up with a great dorm situation that suited DC very well. Much to our relief, housing does a great job with housing matches. I'm sorry you were disappointed as a Duke alum but UChicago economic is quantitative so his future is well served. Your S will have no end of internship opportunities too. The city loves UChicago and Northwestern kids. That'll give him the working experience to go anywhere. Plus Chicago for city amusement is affordable for young people.