Where Do You Want To Go To College?

<-- Senior computer science major at Stevens Institute of Technology

Other schools I applied to:
MIT (rejected. I did not cure AIDS and was not a virtuoso of even one instrument)
NJIT (accepted)
TCNJ (accepted)
Rutgers (accepted)

mmm, i do see what you mean

but in the scheme of things, does college matter that much? i mean yes it will give you a tertiary qualification that will boost your first job pay. some jobs require a tertiary qualification because of the nature of the job. but three years after the novelty of your new career wears off, it doesn't matter what college you went to, it's all experience and "the rest" of life. (right? or is it different in america and do people still compare what college you went to long after you graduate?)

Umm, yes, college does matter, at least for the science and engineering disciplines. A chemical engineer had better know chemistry. While it may be possible to learn the necessary skills and knowledge without college, a degree is a reasonable assurance that you are at least minimally qualified. Which college doesn't matter so much to employers, but it determines the quality of your education and what kind of experience you get while there (which do matter to employers), as well as the social environment you'll have for 4 years (places like MIT and Cal Tech are vastly different from a state university).