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

[Tsunimo]

The people that go to Evergreen State are scoffed at for being "Greeners"(basically pothead-hippies) and most of the people I know hate them.

 

[Vault101]

So you make fun of people for not having the money or grades to get into a better school?

haha oh escapist forums..

everyone gets all up in arms and whines and bitches when someone is bullied in school, then turns around and calls people idiots for going to a "lesser" college.

massive hypocrites you guys are.

yeah...I guess its jsut the norm to joek abotu thease things but I see where your coming from

 

[Hatchet90]

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?

This.

I also got a 26 on my ACT and had a 3.5 through high school. I could be going to a state school, but I also could be spending thousands more for the same AA degree that everyone else is getting. I go to St. Petersburg College in Florida and, with scholarships, I barely break 1k a semester and I plan to go to a "real" college next semester for a degree in business. I love how some of those high school d-bags say that I'm not serious about my education when they're out of town in some "real" college barely passing, getting drunk every other night, and racking up 2 years of unnecessary student loans, but maybe I'm just bitter.

 

[TiefBlau]

California pretty much has an entire hierarchy of this.

The University of California system, with UC Berkley, UCLA, and UC San Diego are pretty much the best public schools in the state. USC, UC Davis, and UC Irvine are a little farther down. Then there are the Cal State schools. And at the very bottom of the echelon that people tend to laugh at are the low UC's (Riverside, Santa Clara), and local community colleges like Irvine Valley College. Given that as far as I know, the only requisite skills for getting to Irvine Valley College is knowing how to breathe, it surprises me to no end that UC Santa Clara and Riverside actually have lower acceptance rates. How is that even possible?

 

[Riccan]

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

Chesapeake Virginia? If so, which high school are you talking about?

The "almighty" Oscar Smith.

 

[Eumersian]

"ha ha, you're going to Dumbass Amherst.

I've only heard it called ZooMass?

OT: BHCC, Salem State, the works. Nobody makes fun of the UMasses as far as I know. We all know that most people get in, but many people go there actually end up pretty good, or at least OK. Sure, I've heard them called "schools for lazy people" (it was the only school my brother applied to, and because of his grades, he's lucky he got in as far as I can tell) and places where you go because you don't want to work hard until you really know what you want to do. But I've never heard any smack about the UMasses.

Now BHCC, that was like the plague. Avoid it.

There are plenty of good reasons to go to community college. Most of them have to do with either economic circumstances or some sort of personal-redemption story.

As in I went to Truckee Meadows Community College at age 31 in order to get the education I was too young and immature to get when I was 18. Transferred to Nevada-Reno, finishing my bachelor's in 2012, then possibly going to grad school for a master's degree. None of that would've been possible without the open enrollment.

Which in turn says something about community college---if you see an adult there (a real adult, not the overgrown children that the Millennial Generation turns out of their high school classes), chances are he or she is there to work hard, bust ass, and make something of themselves (with maybe a little bit of "I'll show you young bucks what's what" in there...) If you see a kid (as in 18-21) in community college, they were probably a teenage fuckup and they're probably going to be a slacker in school as well. Whereas now that I'm at "the big boy college" (as my friend Jasper calls the four-year school), age matters a lot less, especially at the junior/senior 300-400 level classes where the chaff's already been filtered out in those first two years. Doesn't matter if it's me at 33 or some other student at 21-22, the classes are much more equalized.

That's what I mean a little bit of. Out of high school, going to community college wither means that you sucked, or you're not in the healthiest economic situation. My mom went to Northern Essex a few years back to score a job as a RPSGT, since there's now two kids in college.

I imagine, an adult's life would be hard enough without having gone to college, and going to college can make things even more tough to balance. So the convenience and relative cheapness of community colleges is pretty good for an adult willing to expand their education at a later age.

But I'm talking about high school kids here. Most of them did not want to go to BHCC. I grew up in a town filled with yuppies and teenage potheads, and none of them wanted to go to BHCC.

 

[Shock and Awe]

For my area we laugh at Georgia Southern, because just about any dumbass who can sti straight(and some that can't) can get in there.

 

[Freeze_L]

In Colorado... Metro State College. you can apply 1 week before and get in, however it really is not that terrible if your set on learning and are going there because of $. If you are not using it as a slightly more costly Community College than it is not all that great. I know a lot of pepole going there for 1 or 2 years then transferring to a University for a Bachelors.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

Considering I went to high school in semi-rural Kansas, people actually having to "make it in" to a college was fairly unheard of. As such, this kind of thing you're describing wasn't a real issue. Of course, we were relatively close to Wichita, and therefore we knew about Friends University, who's full name according to local misunderstanding was "Friends University of Central Kansas". Needless to say, anyone planning to go to a school there would get a chuckle (not because of where they were going, but because we could call them a fucker).

 

[WhamBamSam]

Honestly, I despise both your school and OSU. Both had hardcore fans in my high school. I still stand by my, "You don't attend the school so why the fuck do you care?" statement. Maybe college sports are just over my head.

Well, I grew up a MSU fan, but came to U of M for their math program and just sort of got into all of that after coming here. Anyway, the hardcore fan/elitist douche thing is fun, that's why we do it. Sports are more interesting if you can manufacture some emotional investment in their outcome. Anyway, getting into a better school seems to be a reasonable excuse for some good natured ribbing. Most of the fan smack-talk isn't as asinine as it seems to an outside observer, just like Kirk vs. Picard debates are probably less silly than they seem to non-Trekkies, because you mostly remember the worst of it.

Go Blue!

 

[Vykrel]

im a high school senior at the moment.

the majority of kids at my school arent assholes and dont tease people for not getting into a good college, since it is one of life's biggest disappointments for people just leaving highschool.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

im a high school senior at the moment.

the majority of kids at my school arent assholes and dont tease people for not getting into a good college, since it is one of life's biggest disappointments for people just leaving highschool.

We're not talking about the people. We're talking about the colleges. We're talking about what funny stereotypes your area has for certain schools....and it appears that our two high-school's senior bodies could not be anymore different. Most of the people I know can't wait to get out of High school.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Honestly a high level school isn't that relative to the job I'm planning on going into, it's been stated time and time again that experience is far more important than schooling for game development.

I'm going to a community college in North Carolina currently.

 

[Flunk]

George Brown College in Toronto, ON. Which is funny because my sister is now attending it.

And hey, guy right above me. You're going to need a BSc in Computer Science if you want anyone to even read your resume for game development. It's sad but true.

 

[KennyHungry]

in my town we dont make fun of people who go to college we make fun of people who dont go to college and actually stay in this town we call them townies

 

[tunderball]

Yeah there were two colleges (in the UK we go to college after High School then onto University) one was considered really smart and academic the other not so. However I've always wanted to do art and film design so even though my grades were easily good enough I went to the 'lesser' college to do what I wanted to do. Yeah I got looked down on but I couldn't care less.

 

[killcheese]

When i was in high school i didn't really hang around the types to talk about college. Most of my friends took a gap year. I knew a few ivy leaguers but they kind of turned into asses around the end of junior year to us community college types. I am completing my AA at a local community college right now and it is known for being the easiest thing to get into and for drop outs.

 

[drisky]

I'm currently going to your aforementioned Umass Lowell. I've also been to Fitchburg and Lowell is better than there. I made honors and had a solid SAT, but I never really thought much about other colleges that are more expensive as better. Hell I got into schools with higher standards but went another way due to money, location, and miss information given to me from my parents. Really I won't be able to know how my education will effect my career until I get out anyways, but since I hear only about 25% of americans have a forth year degree or higher, I expect to due fine.

 

[04whim]

We, here at Regent college like to poke fun at QE and Leicester college. Of course, QE likes to poke fun at Regent and Leicester and Leicester likes to poke fun at Regent and QE. It's a bit of a mock triangle. Although the genuine retard college is SLC, but we try not to mock those less fortunate