EPTOn December 12 2013 17:39 TommyP wrote:
Purdue>Illinois
but yeah Illinois very good school.
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On December 12 2013 08:54 arvinds94 wrote:
I go to U of I right now, ahaha gogo Fighting Illini!!
Responding to the elitist pig above, you are ignorant if that is your definition of first and second rate. If you were out of high school and college and doing work in the field one would think you would be more knowledgeable about the different colleges around the country. Your portrayed understanding of top tier just reflects admission rates and the name value, rather than actual programs, professors, and major specific rankings. Its hard for me to comprehend how these can be the only relevant schools in the nation for you. I love how everyone always skips over our school when we are top 10 for almost all undergrad engineering majors
On December 12 2013 07:53 sns3rsam wrote:
You left out U of I Urbana-Champaign T~T
haha I went there that's why gogo Fighting Illini!
On December 12 2013 05:55 Alryk wrote:
Love ViOlet :D
Both Texas A&M (11) and the University of Texas at Austin (11) are ranked higher in engineering than Johns Hopkins (25), U Penn (22), Harvard (23), Princeton (17), and the majority of the others you listed who might not even make the list. MIT, Caltech, Berkely, and Stanford among the competing ones. And engineering is a big field, by the way. Don't know what you mean by second rate.
Love ViOlet :D
On December 12 2013 05:26 seoul_kiM wrote:
You might believe that I am ignorant, but you don't realize that your definition of second rate and mine might be completely different. I will admit that I am from the Northeast and you might make the generalization that I am an elitist pig. In my mind, I think there are top tier schools and then second rate schools even among your definition of a first rate school. It's not a long list at all: The Ivy League, MIT, CALTech, Berkeley, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, UChicago, Northwestern, Wash U in St. Louis, Stanford, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst. (excluding special schools like Juiliard) The schools that you are referring to might be good schools and even great schools in the local area but Nationally they are not as competitive.
The school you are referring to does not exist in Texas. It's called Deep Springs College in California and it is super competitive with most of its alumni completing a two year program and attending the world's best universities. So yes, I know my shit.
I'm not in high school, I'm not in college, I'm out of college and I work.
On December 12 2013 04:50 Ctone23 wrote:
Nice generalization. Yeah, here in Texas we ride horses to school (only attend school after herding cattle, number one priority) and our women chew tobacco.
On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?
U of T Austin has a great law program though.
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?
U of T Austin has a great law program though.
Nice generalization. Yeah, here in Texas we ride horses to school (only attend school after herding cattle, number one priority) and our women chew tobacco.
You might believe that I am ignorant, but you don't realize that your definition of second rate and mine might be completely different. I will admit that I am from the Northeast and you might make the generalization that I am an elitist pig. In my mind, I think there are top tier schools and then second rate schools even among your definition of a first rate school. It's not a long list at all: The Ivy League, MIT, CALTech, Berkeley, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, UChicago, Northwestern, Wash U in St. Louis, Stanford, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst. (excluding special schools like Juiliard) The schools that you are referring to might be good schools and even great schools in the local area but Nationally they are not as competitive.
The school you are referring to does not exist in Texas. It's called Deep Springs College in California and it is super competitive with most of its alumni completing a two year program and attending the world's best universities. So yes, I know my shit.
I'm not in high school, I'm not in college, I'm out of college and I work.
Both Texas A&M (11) and the University of Texas at Austin (11) are ranked higher in engineering than Johns Hopkins (25), U Penn (22), Harvard (23), Princeton (17), and the majority of the others you listed who might not even make the list. MIT, Caltech, Berkely, and Stanford among the competing ones. And engineering is a big field, by the way. Don't know what you mean by second rate.
You left out U of I Urbana-Champaign T~T
haha I went there that's why gogo Fighting Illini!
I go to U of I right now, ahaha gogo Fighting Illini!!
Responding to the elitist pig above, you are ignorant if that is your definition of first and second rate. If you were out of high school and college and doing work in the field one would think you would be more knowledgeable about the different colleges around the country. Your portrayed understanding of top tier just reflects admission rates and the name value, rather than actual programs, professors, and major specific rankings. Its hard for me to comprehend how these can be the only relevant schools in the nation for you. I love how everyone always skips over our school when we are top 10 for almost all undergrad engineering majors
Purdue>Illinois
but yeah Illinois very good school.Eh he isn't wrong. A&M is pretty much 3rd tier. Austin is top of 2nd tier or bottom of 1st tier. Hopkins, Penn, Harvard, Princeton are all top tier. Perhaps at specific disciplines there are decent programs in Texas, but other than Rice and UT I wouldn't really consider any of them as something special.
