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Eh, I can see it for undergraduate admissions, etc. I'm very skeptical as well. However, I know some very smart people who did actually choose their undergrad

• ry0ohki 13y ago
  I chose my school partly because I followed the basketball team as a kid. It's free marketing. I never heard of half of the small division III schools in my area, but all of the big state schools were on my radar because of sports.
  • eurleif 13y ago
    >It's free marketing. Expensive marketing.
    • pitt1980 13y ago
      that's a big chunk of everything, when you buy a pop out of the machine, what fraction of what your paying for is raw material + production cost and what percentage is so the can pay for superbowl ads so the next time you're thirsty their brand is the first the pops into your head?
• bryanbuckley 13y ago
  where you go for undergraduate engineering isn't that big of a deal, right? In my case I said no to a top 10 engineering undergraduate school offering some scholarship and yes to the University of Alabama which was my grandad/dad's alma mater and thus our football team, an in-state school with cheaper tuition offering a lot of scholarship, and not Auburn University which had a slightly better engineering program rank but were UofA rivals. Had a _great_ uni experience and would make the same choice every time. Had no trouble getting a job in a large company as a kernel developer straight from uni. Sure maybe doing MIT or Stanford I could have been a HVT for ~Google or I would have been in an impromptu startup by junior year.. but those student ticket prices!!! Roll Tide. Still fly back a few times per season to go to games.