You didn't go to college. You went to the safety school for idiots.

[SimuLord]

When I was in high school in beautiful Wakefield, Massachusetts, the shining jewel of loveliness by the lake, there was a hierarchy of colleges by which students who got into them would be ranked in the eyes of their fellow teenaged suburban spoiled so-and-sos. My graduating class (1995) sent 88% of our students directly to college that fall, and most of the rest of us (myself included) eventually went on to at least an associate's degree if not more later in life. So college was kind of a big deal.

And of course we had the Ivy League smart kids (we sent seven to Harvard and 16 more to other Ivies out of a graduating class of 235), the kids who went to the good tech schools (MIT, Worcester Poly, I think one even went all the way to CalTech), the good but not Ivy League schools (Boston College, Boston University, Colgate, Carnegie-Mellon, and other really good schools)...

And then there were the "safety school" kids, the ones who didn't get into the good colleges and ended up going to school wherever they could get in with practically open enrollment. Which in Massachusetts at least meant UMass Amherst and UMass Lowell. And of course, throughout the rest of senior year, there was good-natured ribbing like "ha ha, you're going to Dumbass Amherst. Should've showed up sober for the SAT, huh?"

For Discussion! So where's the school that your high school class pokes fun at or that you yourself may have put in as the "safety school" application so you could at least get a college education even if you couldn't get into a more prestigious college? And what state/province/commune/farshimmelt potrzebie are you from in your country?

 

[Tartarga]

Me and my fellow classmates like to make fun of this college by the name of Bradford. They send someone over to our school every so often to talk to us about their programs and whatnot. Anyway, we like to joke that they are seem needy for acknowledgment and that kind of thing. Also, Devry. Everyone likes to make fun of Devry.

 

[Gxas]

Here in Twinsburg (suburb of Cleveland, Ohio) ours was either Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College) or Kent State (Can't read? Can't write? Kent State.)

Honestly though? I myself made fun of the kids in my high school who chose to go to OSU. Almost forty percent of the class above me went there. Do you know why they went there? Football. None of them have real majors, most of them have actually either dropped out or changed schools.

I made fun of the fuckwits who chose a school to go to because they liked watching the football team there. I'm sorry, but $30000 a year to watch football doesn't seem like a good investment of your parents money, in my opinion.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

When I was in high school in beautiful Wakefield, Massachusetts, the shining jewel of loveliness by the lake, there was a hierarchy of colleges by which students who got into them would be ranked in the eyes of their fellow teenaged suburban spoiled so-and-sos. My graduating class (1995) sent 88% of our students directly to college that fall, and most of the rest of us (myself included) eventually went on to at least an associate's degree if not more later in life. So college was kind of a big deal.

And of course we had the Ivy League smart kids (we sent seven to Harvard and 16 more to other Ivies out of a graduating class of 235), the kids who went to the good tech schools (MIT, Worcester Poly, I think one even went all the way to CalTech), the good but not Ivy League schools (Boston College, Boston University, Colgate, Carnegie-Mellon, and other really good schools)...

And then there were the "safety school" kids, the ones who didn't get into the good colleges and ended up going to school wherever they could get in with practically open enrollment. Which in Massachusetts at least meant UMass Amherst and UMass Lowell. And of course, throughout the rest of senior year, there was good-natured ribbing like "ha ha, you're going to Dumbass Amherst. Should've showed up sober for the SAT, huh?"

For Discussion! So where's the school that your high school class pokes fun at or that you yourself may have put in as the "safety school" application so you could at least get a college education even if you couldn't get into a more prestigious college? And what state/province/commune/farshimmelt potrzebie are you from in your country?

Our local community college, which I'm attending. People laugh, but I get to go to school for two years for free and then transfer. I could have gotten into a better college (ACT of 26 and a GPA of 3.3. It could've been higher but I procrastinated.), but why bother?

 

[smearyllama]

NOVA. It may be a community college, but it's actually a solid school to go to if you have to.

My dad went there for years, just taking the classes he was interested in.

 

[havass]

Over here we work by points, but unconventionally, i.e. the lower points you score, the better. This works by giving points based on your grade on the paper. An 'A' nets you a 1 or 2, and an 'F' gets you a 9.
The maximum points you can get before you're not allowed to get into college is 20, which means most people over here mock the colleges with an entry point of more than 10. Stupid me decided to study only a month before my major exams and got an 11 in the end. Luckily I had bonus points and got into a college with an entry point of 9, so it's not that bad for me.

 

[BreakfastMan]

I don't really know what my other classmates made fun of (I am a rather shy person, despite being 6 foot 5, and built like a football player), but I like to poke fun at the people who go to community colleges for their education ("Ha ha! You have to go to Everett Community College while I got accepted to UW Bothel! Nya, Nya, Nya!"). I am from Washington by the way.

 

[Riccan]

Considering that my high-school is nearly filled to the brim with people that should probably be sterilized to prevent the devolution of society, no one really seems to care aside from a select few.

 

[SimuLord]

Considering that my high-school is nearly filled to the brim with people that should probably be sterilized to prevent the devolution of society, no one really seems to care aside from a select few.

You live in Reno too?

 

[dsmops2003]

East Carolina University, Is easily the safe school in my area.

 

[YarnBarf]

In New Jersey, there's a school called Fairleigh Dickinson. It's down the road from the school I went to, and we always called it "Fairleigh Ridiculous." Years later, I find out that's where Christine O'Donnell went.

She's not a witch. She's you.

 

[manaman]

The really funny thing about collage, unless it's one of the big recognizable names, nobody gives a damn where you got your degree. Hell half the time they don't even check if the school is real. Just look up the multitude of cases where a US government employee was thrown out after years on the job for providing fake credentials including diplomas from some of the many diploma mills.

For me I "went" to several community collage, Bringam Young, and eventually Western Washington. Which I will be going back to later this year.

Around here most of the schools are decent, but back in Texas we did have that special school, Del Mar. It billed itself as a jumping off point, but mostly it accepted those that couldn't get into A&M or UT, and let them play catch-up for a bit until they could. Or turned them out after two years with one of 5 or 6 flavors of associates degree.

 

[SimuLord]

In New Jersey, there's a school called Fairleigh Dickinson. It's down the road from the school I went to, and we always called it "Fairleigh Ridiculous." Years later, I find out that's where Christine O'Donnell went.

She's not a witch. She's you.

One of my dear friends is a Wiccan and said "So if Christine O'Donnell says she's not a witch, then turns around and says she's me...my head hurts."

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Whats wrong with UMass? (I'm probably gonna end up going to Umass Boston or Dartmouth, but I hope to transfer into Bridgewater University.)

At the moment, everyone in my school makes fun of the local community college, BCC.

And I wouldn't say SAT scores determine where you go. My school has kids going all over the country for college (I know one person in particular who already got accepted into the School of Notre Dame, but I scored higher then about 75% of them (Except in the English portion. I'm in the 90 percentile in my high school regarding English SAT scores.)

 

[Riccan]

Considering that my high-school is nearly filled to the brim with people that should probably be sterilized to prevent the devolution of society, no one really seems to care aside from a select few.

You live in Reno too?

Nah, Chesapeake. It's not so much the place, but the pathetic individuals that dwell within.

 

[Thaluikhain]

UWS technically stands for "University of Western Sydney", but is commonly known as "U went shit".

Mind you, I can't talk, I did arts.

 

[GodofCider]

Our local community college, which I'm attending. People laugh, but I get to go to school for two years for free and then transfer. I could have gotten into a better college (ACT of 26 and a GPA of 3.3. It could've been higher but I procrastinated.), but why bother?

Likewise, I too went the community college route. With myself providing the funds to my college education it was the most intelligent option available; especially considering the transfer contracts between community colleges and 'standard' colleges. So I'll make off with an Associate of Arts, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, for $20,000 USD less.

I can't complain.

 

[SimuLord]

Whats wrong with UMass (Is probably gonna end up going to Umass Boston or Dartmouth)?

UMass Amherst is one of the biggest "party school" colleges in the Northeast and the campus experience is composed primarily of catching sexually transmitted diseases from the girls at nearby Holyoke College.

UMass Lowell...well, one needs only walk the campus, preferably armed, with a buddy, and in broad daylight. Come to think of it, UMass Boston has the same problem, since it was built in a part of town where you take your life into your hands getting off the T and walking to class. Wasn't like that when they built the school (it was a working-class Irish neighborhood, sure, but it wasn't bad), but now it's in a part of Dorchester that is mostly known for being an example of how nasty the endgame is for de facto segregation as housing and police policy. It speaks volumes that I know five different women who went to UMass Boston and got raped during their college years...and only one of them got date-raped, the other four made the mistake of walking alone through that neighborhood.

UMass Dartmouth isn't a bad school, though. Nobody's going to confuse it with Ivy League Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, but it's not a bad school.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

There might've been some of this mentality in my senior class (especially considering I was in the IB Programme, which was populated by a lot of smart, smarmy assholes), but I didn't listen to them because they were smarmy assholes. Honestly, I got into UCF which, considering my place in my senior class, was practically a walk-in/open enrollment for me. I probably could've gotten into a better school, but fuck that. UCF had what I wanted, and considering how cheap Florida schools are for Florida residents AND getting Bright Futures, I just decided to go here.

Honestly, I think a lot of people give too much general praise to the higher schools, especially with claims of grade inflation flying about. Anyone who starts raising a stink about people going to "safety schools for idiots" should experience a swift kick in the teeth just because life hasn't given them one yet.

 

[Cobelo]

I live in Idaho, so BYU-I gets a lotta flak (Childbearer U)
Also, in Boise, we have BSU. I don't really gotta explain that, do i? It's kinda obvious.