Must have gotten a hell of a scholarship.. starting 2009 tuition costs at USC are 35,000  plus housing for a 14 to 18 credit load.

Congrats.

I graduated from UW-Green Bay and took graduate courses at UW-L.. couldn't afford UW-Madison for basically the same education.

But honestly, my favorite classes were electives I took in the Wisconsin technical school system.. hands on.. small classes and professors that actually looked at the small picture of the education process with a kind eye.

"pack93z" wrote:

Employers do not give two shits where you got your degree. All they care about is the piece of paper with those magical two letters on it.

The idea of prestige helping you in your career is sold to you by clever marketers for the colleges and has little or no bearing on reality, unless you're shooting for the presidency of the AMA or something equally obscure. For that matter, employers couldn't care less about your grades either, unless you're fresh out of college and did absolutely NOTHING but take classes (no extracurriculars, volunteer work, etc.). And if that's what you are, chances are you're going to struggle to get a job no matter how good your grades were.

There are very few jobs that require reasonably good grades, and they all involve post-baccalaureate schooling: lawyers, physicians, etc. Even most graduate schools don't require excellent grades; my German professor got into his doctoral program with a sub-3.0 GPA. And even with the professions that require good grades, your overall portfolio is more important than your raw GPA: med schools turn down 4.0's everyday, while letting in people with low three points who have volunteer/work experience, world involvement (military service), etc.

I say these things as the former owner of a resume business who helped plenty of people with atrocious grades get good-paying professional jobs. You'd be shocked how low the GPAs of teachers are.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote: