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• Hillary
  

  January 28th, 2009

  Similarly, some of my teachers believe that if you go to a state school, you’re going to receive a less-than-great education.
  -I call BS on this one. All the top state universities seem to do very well in a few subjects. So as long as you pick the state university that excels in the field you want to go into, you’re fine.
  -In addition, people go from state university undergraduate programs to top 20 private university graduate programs (my sister’s doctor actually went to UF for undergrad and Vanderbilt for grad/med school). Oppositely, I’m sure there are others who go to a top 20 US university, coast their way with mediocre grades, and fail to get into a nationally recognized graduate program.
  -As the cliche phrase goes, “College is all about what you make of it.”

• Rachel
  

  January 31st, 2009

  Apparently, I can be an amazing fit at 389 different colleges!
  Exaggeration, obviously.

  I’ve really learned that the general brochures that every student starts receiving after his or her first PSAT mean nothing. According to them, they all can offer you a close relationship with your professor, they all have a zillion different majors and minors, they all are in a great location near (insert snazzy name here) restaurant or club. Judging by these pamphlets, it really doesn’t matter which college I go to; they’re all the same.

  The only way to decide if a college is right for you is to visit it, and talk to people who will tell you the truth about it–including its faults.

• Kathy Jackson
  

  October 23rd, 2009

  Re: vanderbilt, if one applies to one college, how difficult is it to transfer to another and when could one do that? i.e. if you were admitted in Peabody and wanted to change to engineering