Montana State University
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Anonymous
| OP here -- thanks everyone! I appreciate all the comments, positive and negative. It is fantastic that people who had some knowledge about the school and the area took the time to share that knowledge. It's also great that people with negative reactions shared them, because some (east coast flight and the suicides for example) I hadn't considered, and some are things people will be thinking but would never say out loud to us. I was worried MSU might be more like a UNLV, which seems to have funding problems and is more of a commuter school, and there's so little I could find on College Confidential. MSU and Bozeman seem very up-and-coming and I think DC would love it there. |
Anonymous
| Small college towns don't have commuter school problems. You can live "off campus" and still effectively be "on campus." |
Anonymous
Yes. It's upside down day on dcum. Pick Arizons State over Williams today. Maybe even an ASU online degree. |
Anonymous
Jeez, take some agency in your life. You just sit there hating where you live? What a coward. |
Anonymous
She has high ranked friends. Gotcha. |
Anonymous
| Just my two cents or maybe less. What people have described is right -- beautiful area and town, decent school but not even the flagship school for Montana. What does that mean? Is it just snob appeal that holds it back? No, as with most state schools all over the country, job opportunities are more likely to be limited, at least initially. So if one were to go to Mont. State, one should also think about what it would be like to live in Montana after graduation, or how the degree might play elsewhere. Maybe it does not matter as some people say, but it might matter for jobs (not cocktail talk) and definitely worth checking out where students end up, if you can find that information. Someone mentioned Humboldt State, a public school way up in Northern California, and it is probably not that dissimilar. Employment opportunities will be greatest where people are familiar with the school -- can people break out of that, will some students from Montana State end up at Google, sure, but it is generally best to play averages in this area, and on average, most opportunities will be in Montana or surrounding areas, at least initially. Nothing wrong with that, Montana is a beautiful state with lots of interesting stuff going on, but worth taking into account, my two cents. |
Anonymous
Not the PP but I am in the military and here for 1.5 years minimum. I had no idea how awful the DC area was. Counting down the months. Many people have to hate where they live if that is where the job is. Not many people truly want to live in this overpriced, over crowded, over political area. Maybe you, but not many more. |
Anonymous
For a astrophysics, engineering, journalism, business, biomedical, marketing, etc... of course you would pick Arizona State over Williams. If you want to study Russian, Literature, Economics, or Woman's Studies, etc... go to Williams. No one should ever pick a college off of a name. Maybe a few select people in this area, but that is just the keeping up with Jones mentality. |
Anonymous
| Since AI is going to replace lawyers, doctors and finance professionals over the next 15 years what difference does college make? |
Anonymous
Yes, but I think that a lot of these kids are looking ahead to grad/professional schools. I think you could get into a good number of top grad/medical schools coming out of Montana State with good grades, lots of research experience starting freshman year, internships/volunteering, and stellar recommendations from your professors, all of which a top student should be able to obtain at a state school. Plus no to little debt. Then apply for jobs from there. But yes, I agree that if you wanted to go straight into the work force, that might be more of a challenge, unless it's something like computer science with high demand and low barriers to entry. Specific to Bozeman, there are so many people who want to live there right now that it would actually be more difficult to find jobs because you're competing with people with 5+ years experience who are dying to get out of NYC. So if you want to live there, maybe making some local connections might not be a bad idea. |
Anonymous
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Four pages, and I think one, maybe two people have recognized that, regardless of the other attributes of a university, it needs to have the right programs to make it a fit for a particular student.
OP, that's it's pretty and near good ski slopes is a piss-poor way of selecting a college. |
Anonymous
Potential employers and graduate school admissions officers, to name two fairly important (and obvious) categories. |
Anonymous
| Ranked number 205 (112 for public schools), 83% admission rate, and 83% white . . . yeah, I don't think that's a good fit for my kids. |
Anonymous
I’m still stuck on the use of “high ranked friends.” |
Anonymous
You're right. there are probably too many down-to=earth people at Montana State for your liking. |