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[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]

It literally worked that way for me twice, much more recently than the 1970s. I sat in the room while the professor called his connection and recommended that I get the job. If you don't think that still happens you are very naive.[/quote]

Nope, just well aware of how kids get hired in the 21st century and how the most desired companies and industries do their hiring. I guarantee that fewer than 1 percent of kids are getting their jobs due to professors making “a single phone call.”[/quote]

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