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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended a flagship state university.  Some classes were large or low-quality.  Fortunately I found small high-quality STEM honors courses.  A provost temporarily blocked some transfer credits to stop me from graduating early, so I switched majors in my third and last year.

Some state university friends went on to business school and Wall Street.  Others bounced around before finding direction.  I went to a good private graduate school and worked with Nobel prize winners.  In graduate school I learned from the galley proofs of the first textbooks in my area.

You take around 40 3-credit semester courses in college.  There are standard courses like freshman composition or microeconomics.  But one or two professors will make a memorable and potentially life-changing impression.  A good school has more of those.  Great art and science movements are concentrated in small communities.  That is what you want.

Expensive schools also have students with connections.  They will be doing internships on Wall Street or Silicon Valley.  Their friends know about resumes, cover letters, and job networks.  Remember when Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade was busted as a fake athlete accepted to USC?  Olivia Jade had vacationed on the yacht of the Chairman of USC's Board of Trustees!  Those are the type of connections I want my kid's friends to have.

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The only thing that USC connection got Lori is jail time and public ridicule. Teach your kids to work hard and become something based on their own merits not because of connections. [/quote]

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