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Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88
They also believe that if you went to a state school, you had a far inferior education to their special snowflake
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One of my best friends went to Reed College and got an absolutely world class education in physics and math. He then went to Portland State to brush up on his pre-med requirements.
Reed is a hard-ass college which has a bizarre hippy dippy grade policy where they believe that education, not perfect GPAs matter. They do keep track of your GPA, but so long as you have a C-average, you're doing great.
The fact that he had a C-something average really came to bite him in the ass when he applied for med school. He can't even get admitted in the Caribbean despite a pretty stellar MCAT.
Sometimes, that simple state school education and the accompanying high GPA can be a really good thing.
Also, some state schools have honors colleges which are a lot like private schools, but at a much lower cost.
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