Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief

Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by Broken_Hippo on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:58PM (#35032726)

It isn't that anyone things that folks from Iowa, going to the nearest in-state State college, can't make it. It happens. It just probably won't, but you might be more comfortable than someone that didn't go. Just don't, say, be a public defense lawyer or be a teacher.

It is that we know that going to places like Harvard, you are much, much more likely to have a well-paying job, comparatively. Bonus points if you are rich and can do things more often with your peers. I'm not under the impression that the education is that much better (it might be, I can't assess that). The networking you definitely seems better. You are getting a foot in the door, a thing that poor families can't always get without a good dose of luck.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by pjscott on Sunday March 05, 2023 @04:16PM (#35034023)

In the case of Iowa specifically, the trick (if you can handle the coursework) is to go to Iowa State and major in engineering. They're reasonably affordable and surprisingly high-tier. Quite a few other flyover states that you wouldn't intuitively expect to have really good engineering schools actually do.

(The trouble, of course, is with career paths in which networking and prestige matter a lot more.)

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