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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before you accuse me of being a snob or an elitist, I will start by saying that I went to a pretty bad college; one that accepts students with C minus averages and whose 4-year-graduation rate is less than 20 percent. The first piece of evidence that students at worse colleges are generally worse students is the obvious fact that we got into colleges like this in the first place. In my case, you don't even need to look at where I went to college in order to know that I was a bad student in high school; just the fact that I graduated with a B average and 6 AP credits is proof enough.

The next piece of evidence that students at worse colleges are generally worse students is the fact that the 4-year-graduate rates at these colleges are much lower. This seems like it should also be pretty self-explanatory, in that they failed to graduate in 4 years for the same reason they couldn't get into a better college. Notice that I've switched the tense to &quot;third-person&quot; because this doesn't apply to me; I was in the &lt;20 percent of students who graduated in 4 years. And yet, I constantly hear excuses made for these students, namely that they have to work. Well, I had a job in college even though I didn't have to, and I still graduated on time. Also, I visited the campus of a top-ranked college with a &gt;99% graduation rate, and saw that there was a tutoring center there where students could work and tutor other students, which means that there are plenty of students at the college who also work and graduate on time.

Also, it's much easier to graduate from these worse colleges in 4 years or less because they take all your AP credits. So the fact that students who go to worse colleges generally have a harder time graduating in 4 years even though the road to graduating on time is easier at said colleges really proves that they are worse students.[/quote]

Maybe because you went to what you call " a pretty bad college" you haven't experienced that the "better colleges" accept a wide range of students.  As you probably have seen is that there were highly capable students who went to your college too. So, sure, there are superstars at the better colleges but not everyone is a superstar there and frankly, I've been told by more than one person - that when they hire from those universities, the students often come with attitudes that either result in not being a fit or need to be remolded to remove entitlement. Meanwhile the stars from the solid schools at a lower rank are ready to go and ready to learn more.[/quote]

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