"You're making a big mistake!"
Grade 12 tutor: "Only leave your state for an Ivy League school."
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i'd say even skip state schools now, only go past CC for an Ivy. (while I don't know 2023 job market, in 2021 knowing Ruby on Rails + intro CS from CC was enough for 19 year old friend with little to no connections to get 6 figure position) (part of it is lack of negative signals like a state school education or majoring in something like liberal arts/econ lol)
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i'd say even skip state schools now, only go past CC for an Ivy. (while I don't know 2023 job market, in 2021 knowing Ruby on Rails + intro CS from CC was enough for 19 year old friend with little to no connections to get 6 figure position) (part of it is lack of negative signals like a state school education or majoring in something like liberal arts/econ lol)
so people just assume u are a coding genius who didnt need uni
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i'd say even skip state schools now, only go past CC for an Ivy. (while I don't know 2023 job market, in 2021 knowing Ruby on Rails + intro CS from CC was enough for 19 year old friend with little to no connections to get 6 figure position) (part of it is lack of negative signals like a state school education or majoring in something like liberal arts/econ lol)
so people just assume u are a coding genius who didnt need uni
Yeah, everyone should just do this
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Grade 12 tutor doesn’t grasp the difference between first tier Ivys and places like Columbia (#18 in US News & World Report) and Cornell (#17).
Columbia was punished this year for the Thaddeus report.
It's a top 2. Harvard and Columbia are the most selective universities in the U.S. at the undergrad level.
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Disagree. It depends on what your career goals are, and how much you would prefer a higher quality education at MIT, Stanford, Chicago …
I would group MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Rice and a few others at the Ivy level
subtle Rice troll
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My kid debated between UT-Austin and Cornell last year. I’m glad he chose to go to Ut-Austin. That decision saved us close to 200k over four years.
Cornell is better for investment banking. Unless oil prices stay high, then Energy IB will hire a lot from UT in the next few years.
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When it comes to students, colleges, and outcomes, the principle should be GIGO: a student should not waste four years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars a year if they don't actually want to do the work and actually pursue and academic life. No Ivy League universities are good, but they cannot perform miracles, and give professional success to people inherently uninterested in knowing anything or in learning anything.