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mommy2brenna t1_j8v294h wrote

Reply to comment by ragggaerat in Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

> The quality of student that goes to UCONN vs CCSU is noticable.

Would you like to expand on that rude, sweeping, generalization?

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dziuniekdrive t1_j8v5gkm wrote

Not OP, ,but for accounting majors BIG4 hire out of uconn, not ccsu.

Regional and local firms have a bigger presence at ccsu.

Anecdotal evidence from 10 years ago.

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Bust_A_Nutmeg t1_j9agbk5 wrote

To back up this anecdotal evidence: all of my friends with at least a 3.3 in Accounting at UConn ended up at Big4 firms, my friend with a 3.8 in Accounting at ECSU ended up at Blum Shapiro

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fprintf t1_j8we8tk wrote

I don't know, you have all sorts of measures to pick from. SAT scores, place in graduating class, ability to attain academic or other scholarships, and more.

UCONN is far more competitive to get into in the first place. And as an instructor I can tell you without a doubt the quality of the students in my experience is far better than the CCSU and ECSU students I have known or even the Quinnipiac students I have taught. In my current class of sophomores I am blown away by the observable differences, both qualitatively (higher grades for same material) and quantitatively (writing and logic abilities).

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JCCR90 t1_j8wdds1 wrote

Don't want to offend anyone but it's night and day in my experience. One uconn alumni we hire in private equity fund accounting is easily worth two from the regional schools in as far as productivity and room for promotion goes.

The discrepancy is even more pronounced 5,10,15 years after school. All the uconn hires who've left our firm are Assistant Controllers, Controllers, Directors, Vice President, CFO now and the regional school grads hit a cap or had a much much longer road to the same promotions.

Does this mean there aren't superstars at the regional schools, absolutely not, but if we're talking about the average 💯.

I would much rather be taken care of a doctor or nurse who did their undergrad or nursing program at uconn for sure.

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ShamusTheClown t1_j8wc69o wrote

He's saying that Uconn keeps out the Poors, and thus is more cultured.

As a Uconn Alum:

Uconn's undergrad education is shit, and not any better than a state school.

The reason you go there is 100% for Networking and Job Opportunities. So his point is somewhat correct: the difference is a Class Barrier.

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fprintf t1_j8wesbm wrote

No it isn't. UCONN has objectively higher quality students looking at acceptance criteria. It is a legitimately difficult school to get into for many high school seniors who end up going to the other state school systems. Now if your argument is that more students from Simsbury, Avon and Glastonbury get in to UCONN and fewer from poorer towns like Bristol, Berlin, Norwalk then you probably have a point. But that isn't UCONN's problem to solve, that is either the town (because our k-12 is town based) or a larger state problem to fix education at that level before they get to UCONN.

UCONN has selective admissions, at least it has had that in the past 20 years. When I went to college 30 years ago UCONN was where you went as your safe school. No longer, for many kids it is their primary destination, partly because it is up to 1/2 as expensive as private schools.

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lazy-but-talented t1_j8wo5b1 wrote

as a poor kid that graduated uconn you just simply have to get good

my undergrad was good and got me a job in my field before I graduated after applying to two places

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