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Washington, Oregon, Ohio State or Stanford?
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"Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Vassar, Washington & Lee, Davidson, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Wellesley, Harvey Mudd, etc. etc. etc."whatshouldicareabout said:
What, no Middlebury?creepycoug said:
That is exactly correct. And, though it will KILL people on this bored to read this, Goldman, JP Morgan, Hedge Funds and other high level companies don't recruit at UW any more than they do at Arizona State.AtomicDawg said:You don't buy the actual academics with your degree. You are buying the network and the corporations that hire from your institution. Some of you need to learn the difference.
Where they do recruit is at Stanford, of course, and at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, Vanderbilt and, here's where people are going to shit their pants because they don't want to hear it:
Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Vassar, Washington & Lee, Davidson, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Wellesley, Harvey Mudd, etc. etc. etc.
So in that sense, it doesn't matter whether you go to UW or Arizona. It really doesn't at the end of the day. I'm saying this as a Washington grad who runs around with all kinds of stereotypes in my head about the typical Zona student.
Of course, if your'e interviewing with a guy from Washington, it's going to be huge. But that's true of any school.
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Do you think I'd smear the memory of college doog and EVER forget Middlebury?whatshouldicareabout said:
What, no Middlebury?creepycoug said:
That is exactly correct. And, though it will KILL people on this bored to read this, Goldman, JP Morgan, Hedge Funds and other high level companies don't recruit at UW any more than they do at Arizona State.AtomicDawg said:You don't buy the actual academics with your degree. You are buying the network and the corporations that hire from your institution. Some of you need to learn the difference.
Where they do recruit is at Stanford, of course, and at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, Vanderbilt and, here's where people are going to shit their pants because they don't want to hear it:
Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Vassar, Washington & Lee, Davidson, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Wellesley, Harvey Mudd, etc. etc. etc.
So in that sense, it doesn't matter whether you go to UW or Arizona. It really doesn't at the end of the day. I'm saying this as a Washington grad who runs around with all kinds of stereotypes in my head about the typical Zona student.
Of course, if your'e interviewing with a guy from Washington, it's going to be huge. But that's true of any school.
Every list of elite liberal arts colleges begins and ends with Middlebury here ... for ever and ever and ever. -
Oh, and b4 anyone says it, of course the big 4 (or whatever the number is now) accounting firms recruit at UW. But, they recruit everywhere, so if that's your goal, then all you need to do is make sure that your school of choice has a business school with an accounting concentration.
Beware, none of the liberal arts colleges I listed does, nor does Stanford (no, Furd does NOT have an undergraduate biz school ... only biz grad school), and none of the Ivies do either - except Cornell may. I don't recall off the top of my head.
But undergraduate business administration is not available at many elite schools. they'll just tell you to check in with Damone and major in econ, which is probably better anyway, but it won't prepare you for the CPA exam.
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Stanford. And that's after I didn't get in there.
Amazing education without the shitty weather that comparable institutions have? No brainer.
Then again I'm a middle class middle aged dude who values education and understands how connections work in the real world. -
I'd tell him - It's your choice but Id choose Stanford if I were you.
If he has NFL ability and drive he'll make the NFL just as easily as any other school. But If football doesn't work, or even if it does, Stanford opens more doors than pretty much any other non-Ivy school in the world.
It carries respect and connects you to networks that the other 3 do not.
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Anyone can be successful going anywhere. If it was me, I'd want to follow in my fathers footsteps. How cool would that be? But you gotta let him make his own choice. Can't go wrong with Petersen. He's a championship football coach who is very highly regarded with the off the field stuff (academics, life lessons, etc).
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One word: Go to Stanford.HeretoBeatmyChest said:Anyone can be successful going anywhere. If it was me, I'd want to follow in my fathers footsteps. How cool would that be? But you gotta let him make his own choice. Can't go wrong with Petersen. He's a championship football coach who is very highly regarded with the off the field stuff (academics, life lessons, etc).
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Washington. Always. Figure out what you want to do then go to grad school wherever has the best programs.
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well, at least you still have your voice.Dennis_DeYoung said:Washington. Always. Figure out what you want to do then go to grad school wherever has the best programs.
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It all really depends on what my kid was looking for.
If he was a kid that wanted to challenge himself academically and was using football as a ticket for the rest of his life, then hard to pass up Stanford.
If he was still up in the air in what he wanted to do outside of football, I would probably recommend Washington as the Washington degree will still open up plenty of doors (both academically and in the business world up and down the West Coast) but also give a good foundation for a possible NFL future (with Petersen).
Oregon and Ohio State are two of the three schools I hate more than any other (Baylor being the third), so it'd be really hard for me to recommend either to my kid. Of the two, I'd have to recommend Ohio State.
