Private vs Public, is private easier??

[DrDientes]

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This article was posted on Yahoo News it is interesting. What are you takes on this for people who went to private schools?


http://finance.yahoo.com/college-ed...a-go-to-a-private-college?mod=edu-collegeprep

 

[chocchipcookie]

completely disagree. i transferred from a public to a private and it's 1000 times harder here.

 

[anishannayya]

That depends largely on the school. For example, here in California, I'm sure attending a UC is more difficult than attending most private schools. Personally, I don't understand the point of a private school unless you get serious financial aid.

 

[FutureDent020]

Depends on the schools being compared and the students who attend. As a general statement, this is not accurate.

"The authors suggest that these laxer grading standards may help explain why private school students are over-represented in top medical, business and law schools and certain Ph.D. programs: Admissions officers are fooled by private school students' especially inflated grades."

This is a ridiculous statement. Give the adcoms some credit. They aren't monkeys shuffling through papers. Sounds like these 'authors' are bitter ex-students.

 

[iwantobeadent]

Depends on the schools being compared and the students who attend. As a general statement, this is not accurate.

"The authors suggest that these laxer grading standards may help explain why private school students are over-represented in top medical, business and law schools and certain Ph.D. programs: Admissions officers are fooled by private school students' especially inflated grades."

This is a ridiculous statement. Give the adcoms some credit. They aren't monkeys shuffling through papers. Sounds like these 'authors' are bitter ex-students.

SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE A BITTER GRAD STUDENT LOL...I attend a UC and its waay harder than a lot of other schools out there..Berkeley is notorious for grade deflation...and PROOF THAT THERE IS WAY MORE GRADE INFLATION:

STANFORD LETS you drop a class the day before a final.
At a UC, you have until the second week to drop a class.🙄🙄🙄

Also, many public schools operate on a curve: 20% of kids get an A..such a curve is usually not as harsh or not as prevalent in private schools

THE AUTHOR IS COMPLETELY CORRECT...PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE HARD..PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE EASIER AND HAVE GRADE INFLATION..


i mean come on..think about it...how many kids graduate from a school will affect a school's ranking...privates would care more about ranking then publics would because publics will always recieve government funds (and waste the government funds, in the UC case lol)

 

[spud daddy]

SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE A BITTER GRAD STUDENT LOL...I attend a UC and its waay harder than a lot of other schools out there..Berkeley is notorious for grade deflation...and PROOF THAT THERE IS WAY MORE GRADE INFLATION:

STANFORD LETS you drop a class the day before a final.
At a UC, you have until the second week to drop a class.🙄🙄🙄

Also, many public schools operate on a curve: 20% of kids get an A..such a curve is usually not as harsh or not as prevalent in private schools

THE AUTHOR IS COMPLETELY CORRECT...PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE HARD..PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE EASIER AND HAVE GRADE INFLATION..


i mean come on..think about it...how many kids graduate from a school will affect a school's ranking...privates would care more about ranking then publics would because publics will always recieve government funds (and waste the government funds, in the UC case lol)

I guess they don't teach grammar at a UC.

 

[iwantobeadent]

I guess they don't teach grammar at a UC.

lol i love it when ppl like u make snide remarks about grammar..don't worry buddy my grammar is pretty darn good..considering i got a 790 on SAT critical reading and an 800 on the SAT writing (which [gasp!] tests grammar)..sooooooo 🙄

 

[FutureDent020]

SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE A BITTER GRAD STUDENT LOL...I attend a UC and its waay harder than a lot of other schools out there..Berkeley is notorious for grade deflation...and PROOF THAT THERE IS WAY MORE GRADE INFLATION:

STANFORD LETS you drop a class the day before a final.
At a UC, you have until the second week to drop a class.🙄🙄🙄

Also, many public schools operate on a curve: 20% of kids get an A..such a curve is usually not as harsh or not as prevalent in private schools

THE AUTHOR IS COMPLETELY CORRECT...PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE HARD..PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE EASIER AND HAVE GRADE INFLATION..


i mean come on..think about it...how many kids graduate from a school will affect a school's ranking...privates would care more about ranking then publics would because publics will always recieve government funds (and waste the government funds, in the UC case lol)

1) I am not a grad student
2) Stop gloating about the school you attend. Listen to yourself, you are putting down Stanford in an attempt to make yourself feel better
3) You said "Public Schools are hard and Private Schools are easy". You do realize that Duke, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Brown, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, UPenn, Cal Tech, Vanderbilt, Hopkins, Rice, Emory, etc. are all private Universities. But yea you're right, they are probably easy.
4) The UC public schools, especially UCLA and UC Berkley are nationally know as tough universities, you don't have to post stats to convince everyone
5) Stop laughing at everything you say
6) Again, it depends on the public and private schools being compared. Emory is harder than Auburn. UC Berkley is harder than Occidental. Chicago is harder than Illinois.

And how do I sound bitter?? I said it depends on the schools. I just think it's a little ridiculous to suggest that the adcoms are being 'fooled'.

 

[spud daddy]

SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE A BITTER GRAD STUDENT LOL...I attend a UC and its waay harder than a lot of other schools out there..Berkeley is notorious for grade deflation...and PROOF THAT THERE IS WAY MORE GRADE INFLATION:

STANFORD LETS you drop a class the day before a final.
At a UC, you have until the second week to drop a class.🙄🙄🙄
Yep. That is solid irrefutable evidence that private schools are easier.
Also, many public schools operate on a curve: 20% of kids get an A..such a curve is usually not as harsh or not as prevalent in private schools
How do you know?

THE AUTHOR IS COMPLETELY CORRECT...PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE HARD..PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE EASIER AND HAVE GRADE INFLATION..


i mean come on..think about it...how many kids graduate from a school will affect a school's ranking...privates would care more about ranking then publics would because publics will always recieve government funds (and waste the government funds, in the UC case lol)

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[spud daddy]

lol i love it when ppl like u make snide remarks about grammar..don't worry buddy my grammar is pretty darn good..considering i got a 790 on SAT critical reading and an 800 on the SAT writing (which [gasp!] tests grammar)..sooooooo 🙄

Insecure much?

 

[qkchen]

That depends largely on the school. For example, here in California, I'm sure attending a UC is more difficult than attending most private schools. Personally, I don't understand the point of a private school unless you get serious financial aid.

i finished high school in cali and had the opportunity to attend the UC schools although ultimately i decided on canada anyways, i've always wondered whether some UCs were easier than other UCs. for example, UCLA or UCSD versus UC Riverside or Irvine or Davis (where i would have gone)? i know you guys are technically in the same UC system but every campus is different.

 

[redchesus]

i finished high school in cali and had the opportunity to attend the UC schools although ultimately i decided on canada anyways, i've always wondered whether some UCs were easier than other UCs. for example, UCLA or UCSD versus UC Riverside or Irvine or Davis (where i would have gone)? i know you guys are technically in the same UC system but every campus is different.

I think that's true. In Illinois, UIUC and UIC are part of the same system, but UIUC is much harder. As a result, UIC dental school accepts more applicants from UIUC than its own undergraduate program.

As for UC, from my Midwestern perspective, the only ones with reputation are UCSF, UCB, UCLA and maybe UCSD...

 

[New2Philly]

The article that was posted in this thread used stats poorly to support specious generalizations. We all know that one can't make a blanket statement of "Privet U is easier then public U." It depends on the schools, and the states, and the majors. I would like to see the numbers on their stats, and see where exactly this inflation relationship comes from, and whether it truly does leads to more acceptances to prof schools. One could probably even say that since students at private U's have more debt then public students they have more motivation to go on to professional school where they could make more money (and delay debt payment).

 

[UCB05]

lol i love it when ppl like u make snide remarks about grammar..don't worry buddy my grammar is pretty darn good..considering i got a 790 on SAT critical reading and an 800 on the SAT writing (which [gasp!] tests grammar)..sooooooo 🙄

 

[anishannayya]

 

[UndergradGuy7]

I think that's true. In Illinois, UIUC and UIC are part of the same system, but UIUC is much harder. As a result, UIC dental school accepts more applicants from UIUC than its own undergraduate program.

As for UC, from my Midwestern perspective, the only ones with reputation are UCSF, UCB, UCLA and maybe UCSD...

Kind of right... 14 from UIC vs 16 from UIUC isn't much of a difference.
http://dentistry.uic.edu/depts/admissions/dds/classprofiles08-13 short version.pdf

 

[peerless218]

i finished high school in cali and had the opportunity to attend the UC schools although ultimately i decided on canada anyways, i've always wondered whether some UCs were easier than other UCs. for example, UCLA or UCSD versus UC Riverside or Irvine or Davis (where i would have gone)? i know you guys are technically in the same UC system but every campus is different.

Instead of talking about the schools how about let's just narrow down to the professors. Some professors are easier than other professors. I mean the professors in the same department have their level of difficulties because some of them like to challenge their students and others just don't give a crap about teaching. That's why we have ratemyprofessor.com

 

[Oracle DMD]

this whole thread is ridiculous. nobody here wants to use their bachellor's degree anyways, and when we get accepted to dental school we'll probably go to the least expensive one considering that they are all (for all intents and puposes) about equal. the only thing to debate on this thread is vanity, and how gassed up people at UC's are about the difficulty of their respective programs. it makes very little difference where you went to school, and has no correlation to how well you do in dental school.