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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social over academic all the way. Soft skills will carry you further than academics with the exception being you want to be in academia.  Even if you end up a Dr or attorney, you gotta bring in business as a Partner to strike it rich.  Or be a people person in dealing with people.

Academics is something you can find ways around whether in public, transferring into schools or unless you're going to top Ivy sorry no huge difference between U Michigan and Miami U - what I mean is - unless it's the top 10 brand school, the difference between grad from Northwestern and Vanderbilt or Emory isn't an arm and a leg - top 30 is not that huge difference from top 35th or 26th.

So yeah, make your As wherever you are is great.  But culturally - who you make friends with, who you know, lessons on making relationships and your confidence - that is what determines your success long term.

I hire top talent for global F50 C level and have managed college recruiting in my 25 yr career. I promise that it's always the relationship you develop that gets you further in life than anything else. [/quote]

I was going to say academic, but for the same reasons you just said. I was the only minority in my entire school, so I was forced to learn how to make relationships and be confident around people very different from me just to survive. In the end, I learned that all people are unique individuals, and the way to develop strong relationships is to keep an open mind, care about the other person, and accept that sometimes, you can't be friends with everyone. That's something you can learn anywhere. Knowing what you need to know academically though, is harder to do if you go to a school that doesn't teach that well, so I'd choose academics. [/quote]

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