Text Your Way to College

Re:Text Your Way to College by HarryHirsch on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:11PM (#13346662)

There's also the argument that especially as a physician you have the obligation to your patients to do the best job you can. It's true for any profession but for physicians it's hard to see why anyone would object the reasoning. The difference between a top-25 school and anything else is like day and night, the students, the faculty, the equipment, the exposure to current research, and it's still true even though it may not be reflected in compensation.

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Re:Text Your Way to College by dikdik on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:55PM (#13347987)

I'm not too sure about that. I spent several years working closely with a massive group of physicians (40+ in the same specialty), where I routinely had to check medical reports before they went to clients.

While all very bright people, many of the physicians that attended middle-of-the-road medical schools and even one that went to a Caribbean medical school were much better than the couple Harvard trained docs we had.

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Re:Text Your Way to College by trome on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:29AM (#13348610)

This is a really broad statement, with bold claims like:

The difference between a top-25 school and anything else is like day and night

With no citations or supporting evidence. Nor is a Top-25 school defined, is it a Top-25 school in the US overall, or is it in that specific field, etc? Cause there are programs at Ivy League schools that turn out below average civil engineers, which I have had the pleasure of interacting with. I would thus make an educated guess that this would apply to other schools as well, meaning you should do research on the ground to know what kind of education your going to be getting, since transferring colleges isn't quick or painless.

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