Reply to I don’t get it!

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "I don’t get it! "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Let's be honest.. if you have an applicant from MIT and one from UMD, you would look at the MIT applicant first.”
+1

Also that there are a few schools where if you tell people you went there it automatically communicates “very smart”: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT.

In my view the differentiation after that tippy top signaling school group is not that huge but yes there are bands of perceived “smartness” associated with other schools too like UVA signals smarter than GMU or VCU on a resume. Now maybe the kid from the latter two interviews great and is actually smarter and able to do a better job. But in a pile of resumes with kids from all 3 schools thr UVA one is likely to get a closer look. [/quote]

But everyone knows from their own experiences and from the experiences of their children, that the smartest kids in the class are often NOT the ones who go to those schools. Not saying there aren't obviously smart kids at all of them, but the truth is the fist person you think of when you hear a given school's name is the not-smart person you know who went there.[/quote]

Not the experience at our HS or among my kid and friends.  The smartest are exactly the ones going to those schools.  With test required back, more so going forward. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics