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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just  checked, ranking &gt; 250 here.  A regional/state school in a region/state that is smallish. Engineer.

Yes and no. With the right guidance on college searching, I likely could have attended a much better school, perhaps even for a similar price.  It may have made my first few jobs better, possibly would have a stronger college network. Who knows?  Path not taken.  After not too long, I got a job at a top company, got a MS at a top 20 school paid for while working, and have had a really cool career, enough money to be secure and save, and great job, great spouse with sort of similar background.  When college comes up professionally (sort of rare), lots of people went to much more highly ranked places than me, but I don't really feel it says much about me. Most of all, I'm really happy with my life.  So, I wouldn't change anything.  But, I would not advise my kids to take the same path I did.

I do have to fight against my initial aversion to people who seem to have come from obvious wealth, and to not keep a chip on my shoulder from those who went to the top top top schools. I recognize it is a &quot;me&quot; problem there.  I likely would be a bit more at ease in those circles if I'd went to university somewhere else.  [/quote]

I went to a top 10 ranked major university on athletic scholarship.  It was a poor choice for a very poor student.  T!he school's students were wealthy and I quickly realized that a very poor kid from Chicago would be treated as an outcast.  So I put athletics first as I had to keep my scholarship and academics second. No social life or social networks. I don't want to paint an unduly bleak picture as certain professors knew the score and my circumstances and really challenged me. Thank goodness the safe spaces silliness was not around as I only learned because I was willing to endure ego damage in an honors program. I had a number of Big 10 offers with schools with a much better choices of majors. And there were kids working through school at these schools so it would have been much easier socially. I ended up doing as well as one possibly could at a top professional school but that was the only path to take from the Gothic Wonderland - it really only prepared you for more (and expensive) school. My lack of maturity and having no parents in my life were an excuse of sorts for my thoughtless choice, but I had intense athletic experiences just as I would have at the Big 10 schools. I did find it difficulty to integrate socially at work for years but despite the delay have done well.  The school which treated me well from my recruiting visits? Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, as well as Maryland and UVa,  were great but nowhere was I welcomed like at Iowa. Don't choose a school based on rankings.[/quote]

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