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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From Malcolm Gladwell - there are a lot of MIT Business majors that started as STEM majors. You judge yourself with those around you - at top tier school you are likely at the bottom.  He gave an example of a Brown Bio major who dropped out but in retrospect she  thought if she went to UMD she'd have a PHD in the field.

if you prep him for the competition then he might better deal with it.  [/quote]
Sound pretty patronizing - if anything, UMD Bio is more rigorous due to the lack of a P/F option.[/quote]

The example isn’t great, but generally, I do agree.

If you don’t know what you want to do, you should go to a prestigious college because the name will open doors for you and give you some flexibility. If you are very clear in your path, go to an easier school, get the straight As, professor recommendations, best internships, research, all of that, and use it to your advantage.

That’s assuming you’re in vast majority of people who can’t get straight As at the most rigorous colleges.[/quote]

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