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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long before the moron leaves the room?[/quote]

LOL just ignore anyone who equates wealth or lack thereof to be an indicator of anyones looks--it's so idiotic, it doesn't bear comment.

Whoops, now they'll come back and say some other BS that they heard on Fox News or at the barber shop or whatever.

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NP. But...but...but...the "good looks and fertility" poster will come back yet again to insist (with faux gravitas) that "someone should do a scientific study" on why good looks and fertility are so much greater for students and alumni of certain schools!

It's hilarious, the repeated insistence that somehow there is material for a "scientific study" on this, as if that PP is trying to legitimize the idea by crying, "But, science!"

Between that repeat PP, and the one who is so highly invested in insisting that "global prestige" is somehow meaningful, it's a weirdly entertaining thread. Unless a student wants to go on to do some form of internationally based work where employment and advancement might be linked to a university's international standing, there's no reason to be that obsessed with "global" rankings or so-called prestige.

And if a college doesn't have the major you want or an academic program that's right for you, what does its name-brand prestige matter? I could have gone to Super Prestigious University X but since it lacked any major (or even minor) in the field I wanted, why would I go there, however big its name recognition? I hire people. I'm not going to hire the Harvard (or Duke, Yale, whatever) grad who has a degree in something else over hiring a grad from a less "prestigious" college who has a great degree in the field in which we actually work. [/quote]

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