[quote=yamashi1]Paramount your points are well taken and most likely true. Personally, I went to Michigan State and decided to not go to UofM (despite getting offered) for the reasons you stated earlier. When I was 18 my priorities were partying, and meeting new people (most of my friends were going to UofM). I was one of those people that chose business as my major because I really didn’t have a true passion for anything, although I excelled at most. Looking back, picking MSU was one of the best decisions of my life. MSU is where I met my wife, made my most important business and personal contacts, and continues to give me a team to root for on the weekends. In addition, each time I meet a fellow Spartan it gives us something to talk about. This being said, such as most things in life, the choice of a university is a personal choice which is neither right nor wrong. I also believe that your negative opinions are not warranted, ignorant and heavily biased.[/quote]
yamashi1, I agree that university is the best place to meet business and personal contacts, especially those which would be useful in landing a (future) job in your field.
However, I don’t think the choice of a university (for today’s applicants) is a “personal choice.” It may have been in the past but the entrance bar is very high now in the vast majority of both public and private colleges and universities, ESPecially in CA.
The reality is that a HS student-applicant (or soon-to-be CC graduate-applicant) must be chosen by one or more schools they apply to. It’s nothing but a numbers game which is a crapshoot in the CA public university systems unless the applicant has a legacy in a particular school, is a member of a group or nationality which that campus is seeking to admit more of or has a minimum 3.9 cumulative GPA in HS (or a 3.5 GPA for two FT years of CC). And the first two “admission criteria” don’t always pan out for the applicant attempting to use them on their application.
Gone are the days when the solid “B” HS student could easily get admitted as a freshman to a CSU campus. I suspect Michigan’s admission bar has been raised (possibly multiple times) since you attended it.
