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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Gossip from DD, lots of girls getting in ED engineering,[/quote]

This would be good. Every young woman I know from TJ who went off to UVA ... did not end up in STEM. It's like UVA sucked all the ambition out of them.[/quote]
I read something by Malcolm Gladwell about this idea. Hard to do STEM at an academic powerhouse.[/quote]

The video of his lecture about this is online, search:
Malcolm Gladwell on why you should never study at an elite college, but should rather choose a college where you are sure you can be the top student in your program.[/quote]

I think there’s a lot of truth to this. Go where your talents and academic strengths will stand out. Find mentors in your department who will use their connections to help you get ahead. I firmly believe it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond vs just one of many stellar students. [/quote]

Professors at non-elite colleges do not have as good a set of connections to help you get ahead as do the professors at elite colleges. Professors at an elite school can get you an internship, a fellowship, or a job with a single phone call. Professors at Podunk State simply can't.[/quote]

This is like the most 1970s view of professors and how the world works that I could possibly imagine.[/quote]

There’s “elite” and there’s “podunk” and that leaves a huge number of excellent schools in between. Professors at those schools can often get your foot in the door for decent internships and jobs. It’s a fallacy to believe that only students at elite schools have good opportunities. [b][That's not what I said.  :roll: ][/b] Social skills and personality are just as important to future success as academic achievement - maybe even more so. [b][Yeah, sure, send your kid to Radford then, no doubt their social skills and personality will carry them to success despite their mediocre education.][/b] [/quote]
What's mediocre about a Radford education?  Is the teaching quality subpar?[/quote]

The teaching quality at Radford is better than the uninformed snob is implying. The nursing, criminal justice, and business programs at Radford are an excellent value, and I know several alumni who are doing quite well in their chosen fields. Some people think merely getting a degree in any field from UVA will get them a ride on the gravy train, but that’s not the case. It takes drive and ambition to be successful, which graduates of lesser institutions often have more of, because they haven’t been handed all the advantages in life. [/quote]

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