Academic Rankings

#5
#5
From an employability standpoint, does it really matter? Academic rankings seem pointless when you are just concerned about your programs accreditation. When I was a kid anyone breathing could get into App State. They beat Michigan and since then their quality applications went up. The education wasn't better that day, but they could finally start rejecting people. I find Academic rankings to be something only those in Academia care about.
 
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I know this sounds weird, but I’m a Vandy grad (1978) and a life long die hard Vol fan. My dad was a UT grad (1950 thanks to the GI bill) and started taking me to games when I was a little kid. Vandy was hard to get into back in the 70s and it’s much harder today. I wouldn’t get in today. My Vandy class was about 1200 kids total. 200 were class valedictorians.
 
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If you want to borrow a foil hat, I have plenty to discuss about academia. Otherwise, let’s just say that being top of your class is impressive, but it’s not all its cracked up to be.
 
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VolJarhead said:
From an employability standpoint, does it really matter? Academic rankings seem pointless when you are just concerned about your programs accreditation. When I was a kid anyone breathing could get into App State. They beat Michigan and since then their quality applications went up. The education wasn't better that day, but they could finally start rejecting people. I find Academic rankings to be something only those in Academia care about.
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Nailed it !!!
At work we have Engineers that graduated from Rose-Hulman (Top 10 engineering school consistently and private school) and Engineers that graduated from Indiana State University (public school located less than a mile away from R-H).

They all make the same money, have the same benefits, and have the same advancement opportunities, but some of them paid 3X more for the degree.
 
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VolJarhead said:
From an employability standpoint, does it really matter? Academic rankings seem pointless when you are just concerned about your programs accreditation. When I was a kid anyone breathing could get into App State. They beat Michigan and since then their quality applications went up. The education wasn't better that day, but they could finally start rejecting people. I find Academic rankings to be something only those in Academia care about.
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Agree with this. It’s a long-running scam, in my opinion. Just another marketing program for the schools and now-even more completely irrelevant USNWR.
 
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Illinoisvolfan2 said:
I know this sounds weird, but I’m a Vandy grad (1978) and a life long die hard Vol fan. My dad was a UT grad (1950 thanks to the GI bill) and started taking me to games when I was a little kid. Vandy was hard to get into back in the 70s and it’s much harder today. I wouldn’t get in today. My Vandy class was about 1200 kids total. 200 were class valedictorians.
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My son wss accepted at Vanderbilt, but did not go there. The guy who talked to the students who were accepted said, "you students are not in the top five percent, you are in the top five".
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#23
#23
cdb88 said:
Grades mean NOTHING in the REAL WORLD. Way to much is put into them.
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I actually had a private equity company ask for my college transcripts when they were recruiting me to run one of their companies. I told them if with 25 years of running companies like theirs, my college grades mattered, we probably aren't going to work together.
 
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