re: Forbes America's Best Colleges

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Anyone that pays attention to quality of students that come out of these universities shouldn't look at these rankings at all. I work with Alabama, Auburn, UA-Huntsville, LSU, Georgia, Texas A&M and a bunch of other non-SEC grads. I haven't met one graduate from any of the SEC universities that i thought "Man this guy/girl is stupid. That is a direct reflection of the university". I can't really say the same for some of the other grads from some of the non-SEC schools

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I don’t think these top schools necessarily provide a much better education but there is a tendency that highly driven and motivated people will attend these elite schools. I have worked with MIT, Stanford, Cal, UCLA, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, etc grads and you really can see a difference, esp. how they approach and solve problems. However, there was this guy who attended Yale and he wasn’t really that bright or motivated at all.