•••quote:•••Originally posted by jargon124:
• •••quote:•••Originally posted by Original:
•That whole Ivy is better than State school is all Bull****. I can easily pick out a handfull of math majors at my state school that will kick the **** out of any math major from Harvard MIT or whereever. •••••I agree completely. I am fond of pointing out that the top, say, 3% of students here at the University of Arizona (which is known around the country as a "party school") are as smart as the top 3% of students ANYWHERE. Peeps who think that just going to Harvard/Yale/whatever makes them smarter than everyone who didn't are sadly mistaken.
That said, we do like to party out here in AZ. :wink:
•••••Regarding your "top 3" comment, how do you know that? Have you met the top 3% of your school and the top 3% of a school like Yale?
I'm not saying that your comment isn't true, but this thread does reek of sour grapes, as well as elitism.
I know that a lot of HS students choose to stay close at home (state schools) to avoid high costs, or simply because they don't believe in the prestige that a school like Harvard has, but Ivy League schools, as well as a lot of other "top tier" colleges, do hold a lot of brilliant minds not found in places like UC Irvine.
Having written that, I do think that med schools should adjust GPAs according to the overall school average. I've heard that Stanford inflates grades drastically, so much that a passing grade is practically guaranteed. A top public university like UC Berkeley, however, doesn't do this, and so students, on average, don't have GPAs as high as the ones Stanford students have.
I'm from Berkeley.