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Post by barneypwnz on Jan 29, 2005 9:40:26 GMT -8
Actually I think the smaller colleges will still be recognized. Although some of these really expensive top places (Harvard, etc...) are impressive, most people don't give it a second thought. Both of my parents went to smaller schools and they are both really qualified for several jobs. My dad excells in IT Mangagement, and my mom could be a teacher any day, if she wanted to. See, going to those ritzy colleges only gets you supreme education for certain things. But, for smaller, more practical jobs, any place is a good place. As long as you have a degree in something and you specialize in it well, you are going to have an equal chance in a job interview as any other candidate your boss would consider hiring.
I understand that if you do try hard, you can get anywhere in the top schools in Canada. Okay... Then what? You're probably going to be at the school for the same number of years you would be at a regular school, if not longer because generally posh schools are harder, or so I think... And it would be 5-6K for my cousin but that's only if he lives on campus. Forgot to mention that. And by the by, that person in Idaho... Why is he in debt in the first place?
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Post by sweetnsexy on Jan 30, 2005 16:29:22 GMT -8
good points guys, but there is also a middle ground. my mom went to a small college, and paid about 2k a year to go there, then transfered to a large university for her senior year, and graduated with honors in nursing and got her pick of jobs. she got the big school diploma at a fraction of the big school price. in most cases hours will transfer over from a small community college to a major university. thats how we americans save money on education, and for that reason these days, community colleges are growing at a substantial rate. the community college my mom attended wad about 1/4 the size it is now, where i am taking some classes.
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Post by navyceals on Jan 31, 2005 18:11:23 GMT -8
Well the person in Idaho took a number of years at college and obviously didn't have that type of money, so had to pay for most of it by loans.
Ya that's a good point Sweet, you go to a cheaper school and then just transfer and get your diploma from the recognised school. We do that up here too, that's actually what i'm doing now, but when I transfer I'll have to pay about 5 grand for that last year, if you guys transfer... that's still a crazy amount of money you'll have to pay for that one year lol.
I think that the major problem with the big "name brand" universities in the US is that their all private. The small community colleges you guys talk about are affordable because their public, but they don't hold a good reputation. The difference in Canada, is that all the good, big, "name brand" schools here are all public. So with public schools you have the joint benefits of first of all having the government subsize costs and then in the second place, public institutions are not out to make money like private ones are.
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Post by dxlightning on Mar 12, 2006 20:36:24 GMT -8
Competency test to give minors the right to vote. We care about what happens to this country too. 'nuff said.
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