So You Didn't Get into Harvard? New Study Shows It Doesn't Matter All That Much Anyway
My husband (who went to BU) is determined that our son go to Harvard. I, a Syracuse University ("party school") graduate isn't so concerned. Hey, at least I went to Newhouse for journalism. In any event, a new study has found that where you go to college may not matter all that much, in the end. That's because, according to newswise.com, is it the institutions themselves that succeed in getting students through to degree completion, or is degree completion merely a result of the quality of the students entering the institutions? It's long been thought that students should attend the most academically selective college possible, since, among other reasons, highly selective institutions graduate students at higher rates. But now experts aren't so sure. New research has shown that attending a more selective college, as measured by average SAT score, does not make much of a difference for a student’s chance of graduating with a bachelor’s degree, ...