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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 751551 United States 08/21/2009 06:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | that actually raises a good point. why i should have been born in the 50s... [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 746758 United States 08/21/2009 06:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I noticed the same thing about the schools represented. ???? And I have no answer. All I know is that I'm a 31 year old stay at home mom who never even finished community college before I got married at 20 and I have been blowing these kids away! :) Haha! I suppose being around longer helps. I don't know. I, personally, don't think a diploma means anything other than you made it through the classes. I know some insanely unintelligent college graduates. I don't the ivy league schools are an exception. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 751551 United States 08/21/2009 07:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I noticed the same thing about the schools represented. ???? And I have no answer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 746758All I know is that I'm a 31 year old stay at home mom who never even finished community college before I got married at 20 and I have been blowing these kids away! :) Haha! I suppose being around longer helps. I don't know. I, personally, don't think a diploma means anything other than you made it through the classes. I know some insanely unintelligent college graduates. I don't the ivy league schools are an exception. Yeah, for anyone with a basic knowledge of American geography who watched Thursday's show could have got a few right out of that alone. Where is such-and-such city located in New York? The answer was Long Island. Now I have never been to New York but I could have guessed at that and got it right. Then one was Chesapeake Bay and if you're familiar with Virginia once again it would have been a simple click away and 500 bucks. Another one was "TV is changing from analog to _____"? (digital) which a 5 year old could tell you. About Ivy Leagues, there's a common misconception that there're more difficult curricula in these schools. For the graduate students and students pursuing highly specialized fields this is true. The truth is the Ivy Leagues' most difficult part about graduating is acceptance as an applicant. Once you are accepted you are nearly guaranteed a degree. How it works is the top schools have to maintain an image that their students are the cream of the crop... the very best and so thus inflate scores to make the students look exceptionally gifted while also riding on the fact most think the curriculum is difficult. Lower-tiered schools however are expected by the public to be less challenging more easy-going schools and so they have assignments graded very strictly to artificially make the results of the students look worse than they really are, giving the impression that the school is academically rigorous. This also has a second benefit in that lower-tier graduate schools of these 4-yr colleges have lower bar admission/passage rates for law and medicine typically because the education is substandard compared to Ivy-League (or not as good as Ivy League schools) so by grading more strictly they are indirectly encouraging volumes more studying time per student and thus bring up their bar admission/passage rates. Many don't know this. |
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