2011-03-20, 07:33 PM
Shidoshi Wrote:In Brazil the better universities are the public ones so there is quite a lot of competition to get into them. You do get all your years for free after.
In Brazil you would normally go to the university in your region so you wouldn't necessarily be moving out from your parents (though it is the case for students who don't live in the capital) so you don't have the same student life experience.
I'd say it's worth it if you have a good university and you are studying something you like. I retained a lot of what I learned in 3.5 years of uni in Brazil and I don't regret it one bit.
This. In here, at least where i live. Universities are a must. It's not really that easy to get a job, so, you must accumulate a lot of references, capacities and knowledge to surpass the others that are also attempting the same job.
Everything always works like a competition. And everything counts to your professional growth.
Getting as a reference people that are in the age of just getting out of High School and going to colleges, the majority works like this where i live. You keep studying hard, in your last school year, you do an exam with all the subject from your last 3 years, and you have to enter some sort of a competition with the score you got with that exam with your state, or even with the whole country.
There's some sort of a ranking, that only the ones with the best scores are selected, each university classroom of the specific subject has a number x of students, these must be from the first, to x place in such ranking. If you don't get approved, what happens to many people, you can either wait a year to attempt getting into it, or attempt a paid college, which is much easier to get in, but it's not much different to get out and what to learn.
Due to these public universities being seen as "prizes" for the ones who studied most, when getting a job, they tend to prefer to contact someone who graduated in a public university than the ones who graduated in a paid one. Just because of the fact you have to get past a huge competition to get selected to get in, and they tend to see that the ones who get into a public university are better options than the others. Not necessarly true, but it's something that was built with the population and is not really easy to take off.
It gotta be pretty different from here, because it's actually pretty rare to see someone in the age to attempt getting into one for the first time, whose dream isn't to get out of the school and get into the university, which seems to be much better. And it actually is, at least according to the majority that i know. Maybe because of the fact you feel accomplished for getting into one because of the difficulty or any other reason.
I can't really say anything for sure because i haven't been in one, i'm in the last school year and am attempting to get into one, because of such competition, students are mostly obligated to study too much, and to learn to retain every single knowledge passed on by teachers, especially where i live, that the competition is a little worse this year, since the spots were split up into different exams for the public university to get adapted to the newest exam form. I can only attempt into 45% of the spots, which makes me feel obligated to get into at least 15th place from like 2x places to get in.
It's really hard, and that's why people tend to study and to put a ridiculously high effort into getting into one of those, to get an easier life after it. I've never seen something you can learn as useless. That's why i think it's completely worth it.