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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=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asking genuinely. They just seem so large and impersonal. The credential may be great but is the educational experience comparable to what one might have at a top private school? I attended a midsized elite private and suspect the educational experience I had is more similar to a smaller LAC. But when you go to Michigan or Florida or Wisconsin, is anyone really cultivating your abilities? Evaluating your written work carefully? Small seminars? Or is it more like watching good Ted talks and then handing something in ([b]and then getting an A because most of the kids are in staters producing high school level work).[/b] Interested in perspectives on this from state u grads. [/quote]

Sorry, OP.  When your idiotic bias is front and center, as yours clearly is, I have no interest in wasting my time with a substantive answer.  Frankly, you don’t deserve one.[/quote]

Ok, this is my experience. I was staying with my friend at prestigious state u and he paid me $50 in the 1990s to write a paper for him. I cranked it out in an hour and he got an A+. It was B- ish work at Ivy League. Ever since then I’ve tended to think state u was bs.  [/quote]

So you helped someone cheat, and YOU have the moral high ground? You are not a good person, OP.[/quote]

I never claimed I was a good person. I am just curious if I send my kid to state u will he have the same kind of intellectual growth experience I did, with professors giving me direct feedback on my papers, etc. I want my kid to have a good credential but it won’t be bad either if he grew along the way. [/quote]

Maybe be a little more concerned about integrity, both yours and your son’s.[/quote]

It was literally 1990. I’m sorry. [/quote]

No expiration date stamp on integrity[/quote]

I needed the money, to buy beer. Does that make it better?[/quote]

Unimpressed if this is what SLACs turn out.[/quote]

Lol not SLAC. Ivy and not low Ivy. 😏[/quote]

Even more unimpressed not that I believe you. [/quote]

Because Ivy Leaguers are universally known for unimpeachable ethics?[/quote]

No because you remind me of a 15w lightbulb. [/quote]

And I got in purely for academics. [/quote]

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