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re: Student turns down all 8 Ivy League Schools for the University of Alabama
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:04 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:04 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
If medical school is in his future it really doesn't matter where he goes. An Ivy League med school will pretty much get him paid the same amount as UAB. If he goes down the MBA road then he's dumb. An Ivy League MBA pretty much writes his/her's own ticket in life.
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Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:06 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Dude got a cut in pay before ever starting his career.
This. How insane. It's not that it's Bama, it's that it's any run-of-the-mill school he chose over Ivy or MIT.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:11 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Dude is going to Bama to get paid, then he will get his real education when he goes elsewhere to med school
The guy i consider the "most successful" from my high school did this. Graduated from Bama with a History degree then went to Columbia and got his MBA. He now works on Wall St, has a house in the Hamptons, etc, etc.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:12 am to MightyYat
quote:He wants med school and his family doesn't want the debt associated with med school elsewhere. Looks like Bama's gonna actually pay him to get his degree at UA.
If medical school is in his future it really doesn't matter where he goes. An Ivy League med school will pretty much get him paid the same amount as UAB. If he goes down the MBA road then he's dumb. An Ivy League MBA pretty much writes his/her's own ticket in life.
This is no different from the many Honor students already on campus that chose UA over an Ivy. Why is this Memphis kid a "story?"
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:13 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
Probably Dumb but Ivy league prestige is much more important in business/law career than somebody getting an MD. If he does as well at bama as he did in high school, he can have the same sort of choices for medical school. The more impressive combo is alabama undergrad/ harvard grad school than harvard undergrad/ alabama grad school.
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Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:14 am to RT1941
Because not a lot of people get into every Ivy league school, only to turn them down.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:15 am to StopRobot
LOL at all the people on this board who think a bachelor's degree from UA is the last degree he's going to get.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:16 am to RT1941
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He wants med school and his family doesn't want the debt associated with med school elsewhere. Looks like Bama's gonna actually pay him to get his degree at UA.
Which makes his decision make sense to me.
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This is no different from the many Honor students already on campus that chose UA over an Ivy. Why is this Memphis kid a "story?"
Because he got accepted into all the Ivy League schools. That's what makes him different.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:19 am to jb4
Yeah, I don't see this as a bad move. His real education will come from med school and residency.
Get paid to go to bama, do well in med school after, profit.
Get paid to go to bama, do well in med school after, profit.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:21 am to MrAUTigers
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What a fricking idiot.
Alabama may have offerred the best financial package to pay for his school, but the thing he will not have is lifelong access to the alumni network of an Ivy league school unless he goes to one for grad school.
Once you get a harvard email address that is YOURS for life. You can use it forever. That alone opens doors. How many Presidents, CEO's, etc, come from our collective SEC schools vs those who went to Ivy league universities?
Access to the real power base of industry and government is platinum. Now, having said that the kid could go to Bama, get his undergrad, then go back to an Ivy for grad school.
Perhaps thats his plan. Get the chevy from Bama, then get the power base from the Ivy schools later.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:25 am to Tuscaloosa
Wrong Board, but I have no problem with his decision b/c he can get a quality education and be debt free upon graduation. Plus he'll be close to home and he can enjoy LSU coming to BDS every other year and kicking the gumps arse.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:28 am to StopRobot
If you get into Harvard, you go to Harvard. I'll say that as a UA alum. Poor choice imho.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:29 am to StopRobot
One of my best friends (poster on this website BTW) refused a full ride in engineering to Alabama to go to Ole Miss with a much, much lower scholarship. Had to shake my head at that as well.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:30 am to sjmabry
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he can enjoy LSU coming to BDS every other year and kicking the gumps arse.
Coming Soon!
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:31 am to Funky Tide 8
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Yeah what dumbass for not wanting to accumulate a mountain of debt, and choosing to go to a school that will pay for 4 full years of school while getting a great SEC school experience.
Whenever I see a resume, the University of Alabama isn't going to catch my eye or get you any interviews (depending of course on the type of major). Harvard, Yale, or Stanford though? Yeah, you're getting an interview almost automatically. You're an idiot if you go to Alabama over any of the Ivy League schools.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:35 am to dagrippa
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65k as a professor in Landscape Arch.
What community college? Landscape Architects don't make dick out of school, but professors in general make a lot more than that.
Auburn paid it's professors $135k, associate professors $94k, assistant professors $60k-$75. Did you mean he made $65k as an assistant right out of school?
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:36 am to OMLandshark
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Whenever I see a resume, the University of Alabama isn't going to catch my eye or get you any interviews (depending of course on the type of major). Harvard, Yale, or Stanford though? Yeah, you're getting an interview almost automatically. You're an idiot if you go to Alabama over any of the Ivy League schools.
Did you read the article? Right now he's planning on going to Medical school, which means he'll just be doing Pre-med at Bama for undergrad and he'll have his pick of whatever Med school he wants from there.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:36 am to StopRobot
Good story to teach other kids what "NOT" to do.
Kid is and idiot and so are the parents.
Kid is and idiot and so are the parents.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:37 am to tiderider
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rant reading gets worse and worse every day ... ...
Unless he was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars so that he could invest in something on the side, then I don't need to read it. It's an Ivy League degree. That will get you into any door to interview. Alabama, no. Ole Miss, no. Florida, no. An Ivy League degree is entirely priceless. The only SEC school that comes close to that type of prestige is Vanderbilt.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 10:37 am to JayDeerTay84
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Good story to teach other kids what "NOT" to do.
Kid is and idiot and so are the parents.
You didn't read the article, either.
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