Worst College Advice you have heard, that you know is untrue

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty much 90% of everything in this entire forum, and 60% of everything on CC.

The most prolific posters on College Confidential are flyover state rubes with average ambition kids. It's a depressing place once you realize most of those nuts don't even have kids in high school or college (anymore), they just keep posting awful advice over and over and over.

Also, a lot of the smart "kids" are larping helicopter moms pretending to be their kid.

Weird site that hit its peak usefulness over a decade ago.

Are those the ones who think everyone should go to Bama?

Hahaha! "My kid is thriving at [insert open-admissions dump]!" or "If your DC is thinking medical school, it does not matter where they do undergrad!" Imbeciles.

Shrug. That is, for the most part, a statement of fact. Imbecile indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:That it "doesn't matter where you go to college". I call B.S. Some organizations only hire grads of certain schools.

Meh. I hear this a lot but it just has not proven to be true at all in my career.

It's true in management consulting, investment banking and big 4 technology companies. It's not true pretty much anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty much 90% of everything in this entire forum, and 60% of everything on CC.

The most prolific posters on College Confidential are flyover state rubes with average ambition kids. It's a depressing place once you realize most of those nuts don't even have kids in high school or college (anymore), they just keep posting awful advice over and over and over.

Also, a lot of the smart "kids" are larping helicopter moms pretending to be their kid.

Weird site that hit its peak usefulness over a decade ago.

Are those the ones who think everyone should go to Bama?

Hahaha! "My kid is thriving at [insert open-admissions dump]!" or "If your DC is thinking medical school, it does not matter where they do undergrad!" Imbeciles.

Shrug. That is, for the most part, a statement of fact. Imbecile indeed.

Over 95% percent of kids who want to go to medical school can't hack it. And plans change. So, good luck with the worthless diploma mill credential. Smart.

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I've been practicing medicine for over 25 years and sit on the admissions committee of a medical school. On a macro level, the PPs are exactly correct. When admissions committees from medical schools look at your application, the reputation of your undergraduate institution is not something that is considered (within reason, of course. A U of Phoenix degree is going to be looked at as suspect. But a perfectly legitimate but lesser ranked school like JMU or GMU or McDaniel? no.) If a student has a high GPA and MCAT, solid extracurricular activities, a strong personal statement, and thoughtful supplementary essay responses, his or her school’s reputation will have little bearing on admissions. A good applicant is a good applicant, whether they come from Harvard or Frostburg. Ignore well-meaning - but ignorant - people who try to tell you otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been practicing medicine for over 25 years and sit on the admissions committee of a medical school. On a macro level, the PPs are exactly correct. When admissions committees from medical schools look at your application, the reputation of your undergraduate institution is not something that is considered (within reason, of course. A U of Phoenix degree is going to be looked at as suspect. But a perfectly legitimate but lesser ranked school like JMU or GMU or McDaniel? no.) If a student has a high GPA and MCAT, solid extracurricular activities, a strong personal statement, and thoughtful supplementary essay responses, his or her school’s reputation will have little bearing on admissions. A good applicant is a good applicant, whether they come from Harvard or Frostburg. Ignore well-meaning - but ignorant - people who try to tell you otherwise.

Thanks, very helpful. Family member attended JMU undergrad and is now a successful physician after attending a highly respected medical school. He laughs at these myths too.

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Colleges KNOW how rigorous (insert private school here) is. You don't need APs, you have an advantage over public schools, etc, etc.

The reality today is: Spend 40K a year on k-12 private if you want a certain education for your child because it is no longer a leg up to elite colleges. In your private school you are up against your class full of hooked legacies who are all applying to the same schools.

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I am also a doctor. Go to the best school you can get into and afford. In other words, yes, if you get into Harvard and can afford it - go! But do not, under any circumstances, think that you're not going to be able to get into a good medical school because you didn't go to a top school (whether it because you couldn't afford them or because you didn't get in). I echo what PP said - a good applicant is a good applicant regardless of where they went to school.

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Anonymous wrote:I am also a doctor. Go to the best school you can get into and afford. In other words, yes, if you get into Harvard and can afford it - go! But do not, under any circumstances, think that you're not going to be able to get into a good medical school because you didn't go to a top school (whether it because you couldn't afford them or because you didn't get in). I echo what PP said - a good applicant is a good applicant regardless of where they went to school.

What's the advantage to attending the best school that you can afford? And, I guess, define "afford".

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Anonymous wrote:I am also a doctor. Go to the best school you can get into and afford. In other words, yes, if you get into Harvard and can afford it - go! But do not, under any circumstances, think that you're not going to be able to get into a good medical school because you didn't go to a top school (whether it because you couldn't afford them or because you didn't get in). I echo what PP said - a good applicant is a good applicant regardless of where they went to school.

What's the advantage to attending the best school that you can afford? And, I guess, define "afford".

Without taking huge loans so basically the cheapest school

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Anonymous wrote:I am also a doctor. Go to the best school you can get into and afford. In other words, yes, if you get into Harvard and can afford it - go! But do not, under any circumstances, think that you're not going to be able to get into a good medical school because you didn't go to a top school (whether it because you couldn't afford them or because you didn't get in). I echo what PP said - a good applicant is a good applicant regardless of where they went to school.

What's the advantage to attending the best school that you can afford? And, I guess, define "afford".

Without taking huge loans so basically the cheapest school

Because taking the lowest bid is always a good idea.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter what you major in - NOT TRUE (unless you go to HYPS)

HAHA

are you trolling with bad advice on this thread? if so, kudos.

???

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Anonymous wrote:I am also a doctor. Go to the best school you can get into and afford. In other words, yes, if you get into Harvard and can afford it - go! But do not, under any circumstances, think that you're not going to be able to get into a good medical school because you didn't go to a top school (whether it because you couldn't afford them or because you didn't get in). I echo what PP said - a good applicant is a good applicant regardless of where they went to school.

What's the advantage to attending the best school that you can afford? And, I guess, define "afford".

Without taking huge loans so basically the cheapest school

Because taking the lowest bid is always a good idea.

If you plan on going to medical school, yes, it absolutely is.

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It's practically impossible to get in to UVA from NoVA.

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"I would never send a child to a LAC when they could go to a university instead."

Dumbest attitude ever. Shows no comprehension of the differences of mission between these two models of education. Nor of the advantages (there are many) of LACs.

~ Former T-20 professor whose child attends a LAC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've been practicing medicine for over 25 years and sit on the admissions committee of a medical school. On a macro level, the PPs are exactly correct. When admissions committees from medical schools look at your application, the reputation of your undergraduate institution is not something that is considered (within reason, of course. A U of Phoenix degree is going to be looked at as suspect. But a perfectly legitimate but lesser ranked school like JMU or GMU or McDaniel? no.) If a student has a high GPA and MCAT, solid extracurricular activities, a strong personal statement, and thoughtful supplementary essay responses, his or her school’s reputation will have little bearing on admissions. A good applicant is a good applicant, whether they come from Harvard or Frostburg. Ignore well-meaning - but ignorant - people who try to tell you otherwise.

Thanks, very helpful. Family member attended JMU undergrad and is now a successful physician after attending a highly respected medical school. He laughs at these myths too.

Who's going to help your kid apply to medical school at a shit college? The janitor? They're on their own. At Brown you have an entire department dedicated to polishing pre-meds applying to med schools. Who's going to push your kid to overachieve at a shit school? The slackers all taking 5 6 7 years to graduate? At an Ivy pretty much everyone finishes on time.