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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I never understand the families where they are so obsessed with their kid going to a top 20 university and then said kid majors in something like English. I rather my kid go to Penn State and major in Mechanical Engineering.[/quote]

Better to go to a top school and do MechE: MIT, Stanford, Ivies with real engineering, CMU, Rice, Hopkins, UCB...all are much better for top engineering jobs than penn state. Penn state is great for average engineering jobs.

For English majors it is even more important to go to a top school, unless you want to be an english teacher in middle school. Elite school grads with English majors get high paying jobs at think tanks, consulting, or top journalism positions, if they do not go the law or med school route which many English majors at top schools do. If they want to teach, they can get into a top phd much easier from a top undergrad, or they can get into the highest paying high school teaching jobs which are the feeder private schools, especially the boarding schools. Private schools care where the teachers got degrees because parents care. [/quote]

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