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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by nether on Friday January 09, 2015 @03:59PM (#8864467)
> age 36-43: professor at a good, but not great, university for $65,000 per year

Podunk U in the midwest gets filled with MIT/Harvard degreed profs, who couldn't wait for existing profs to die off at their alma maters. It also captures the Harvard rejects with 4.0 GPA's, 2300 SAT's, 12 AP courses. Extreme selectivity at the elite institutions improves the quality of the non-elite schools. Better profs, better students. Does Podunk U have the potential to churn out some great students then? Even if its prestige isn't as good as an elite.

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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by Chronic30 on Saturday January 10, 2015 @02:17PM (#8867596)
Since your brought up the prestige issue. Prestige is a very important component when applying to jobs, meeting people, or going to graduate school. So no, Podunk U will not churn out great students.
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