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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]colorado-boulder is a great school. why are people rejecting it? All the people i've known that went there are quite successful now and they had a happy experience compared to many of my friends who went to much 'higher' ranked schools.

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Because most of the kids I know from here who have gone there have flunked out.  Really.  Obviously there are going to be successful grads from there, but the temptation of parties and skiing seem to be too much for the kids we know from here.  Obviously if you are from CO it would be a totally different story.[/quote]

I guess it depends on the kid.

As a college student you can find plenty of ways to waste time regardless of where you. I was a pretty straight and narrow kid and I almost flunked out of undergrad because I hated where I was. My sister on the other hand smoked copious amounts of pot on a virtually daily basis and even dealt it at her top-10 LAC and landed great internships every summer on the way to an awesome position in silicon valley (she had ok grades but is an insanely good networker).

Looking back, fit and happiness is everything. Just because you go to Ivy-esque places doesn't mean MBB-consulting, bulge bracket i-banking/trading, or silicon valley corps are going to take you 100%. If my DC's want to go to colorado and they can maintain decent grades in a semi-marketable major, then I wont care if they ski and smoke a bit of pot to enjoy themselves.

That's crazy that you know many kids who straight up flunked out of UC-Boulder. Were they huge partiers from privilege to begin with or were they pretty sheltered kids who just went out of control because they never experienced that kind of atmosphere before? [/quote]

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