Stanford losing to a bad Cal team. Maybe some regrets on his side.
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Looks like he isn’t even starting. Regardless you don’t choose Stanford over Purdue for the basketball program. He’s getting a great education and I’m sure will go on to do great things. I’m sure he’s fine with his decision.
In what way? Stanford is very much one of the top universities in the world.
It’s all about the label. Getting in is the hardest part. The actual academic rigor isn’t much different.
it's a tough call. my mom was very academic oriented. Given a choice, if i had offers from purdue and Stanford, I'd choose Stanford.
i know a lof of people here wanted him to come to purdue. but if he did, would he be starting?
i hope he gets his degree.
i know a lof of people here wanted him to come to purdue. but if he did, would he be starting?
i hope he gets his degree.
Sure the academic rigor may not be much different, but there are additional benefits that they offer. Similar to Notre Dame, one of the biggest benefits is an in road to the alumni base. Stanford has one of the richest and most successful alumni bases. That alone puts a degree from there in another tier. As much as we love Purdue and their academic brand, Purdue is a national brand with a hint of international reach. Stanford is undeniably a worldwide academic brand. If you ask any unbiased person who has a better academic reputation, Purdue or Stanford, every single one would say Stanford.
Stanford does not bestow on you some magical education that makes you smarter like some around here think. Its highly rated for much the same reason Harvard is, it has a reputation for exclusivity. Its like a trendy club, the drinks dont taste any different, the music isnt any better, its just an "it" place. It will get you great opportunities at the entry level, its not like you are set for life. If you go there for basketball you will get extra breaks just like you would at any big time school.
At the undergrad level there isnt much difference. Yes you have access to an alumni base, but being a top basketball player already gets you access to a different alumni base. Reputation in biomedical research or whatever does not mean much in this context
I doubt he gives Purdue much thought. Just like until this thread I hadn’t thought about him until I looked him up like mid season last year and saw he was just OK for Stanford. Seems like he’s trying to get back to ok.
These players not picking us (outside of Jalen Brunson and Kyle Guy) seems to work out for us generally in the long run.
These players not picking us (outside of Jalen Brunson and Kyle Guy) seems to work out for us generally in the long run.
Read an article in Dallas about him before he picked Stanford and it makes sense.
His dad is a successful businessman in the area. Has an older brother who went to Middlebury College, I think, because of the path to a job on Wall St.
Kid had a plan for future outside of basketball and picked a place based on that.
His dad is a successful businessman in the area. Has an older brother who went to Middlebury College, I think, because of the path to a job on Wall St.
Kid had a plan for future outside of basketball and picked a place based on that.
Maybe but if i remember he is very smart and his choice was more academics than basketball. Doubt he is regretting it if he is walks out with a Stanford engineering degree.
He’s old school! He used his athleticism to get a scholarship to actually get an education! I wish him well.
There is no way you can take a challenging engineering course and play a competitive sport. Its impossible unless you are a big time genius.
Elijah Sindelar begs to differ.
True. Hard to get into, easy to graduate from - as long as you remember the new list of evil words that must be avoided.
And Matt Waddell says hi too. He was pharmacy..I can guarantee from personal experience PharmD aint easy!!
I didn't realize they were so bad this year. They ended up getting destroyed by Cal which was arguably up there with Minnesota and Georgetown as the worst P6 teams this season.
There is no way Pharmacy compares to a real hard ass engineering program designed to weed people out
The average grade in college today is an A. You have to try to fail
Oh, no arguments with any of that. I chose not to attend Purdue for similar reasons, instead choosing to go to a school I perceived as "more prestigious."
Looking back, while I don't regret my choice, I do cringe at just how much I was conditioned to value "prestige" above all else.
It's no way to live a fulfilling life, I've come to learn.
In some way or another, we all seem to be slaves to "prestige" and/or brands, which is, well, kind of sad.
I selected Purdue to prove to my high school classmates I was smart enough to be accepted into a prestigious school. It was the 70’s and most of my classmates had no idea where Purdue was and many thought it was a prestigious private school like Northwestern or was an Ivy League school. All high school students really knew about Purdue in the 60’s and 70’s was that it was a famous engineering school and the home of Neil Armstrong. The name Purdue just sounded prestigious! Nobody outside of Indiana realized it was just a state school. In the 60’s Purdue was included in the same conversation with MIT and Stanford! So to impress my classmates I chose Purdue!
We are fortunate Purdue did not end up with the disgusting name, Indiana A&M, the Aggies. Or even worse, Indinia A&M.
CHeck-in with Austin Appleby, Raheem Mostert, Akeem Hunt ... Construction Technology, Av Tech, Kinesiology --- it's fine if you don't consider those challenging engineering degrees, but they definitely require a LOT of study time.
I don't think specifying that type of program fits this discussion. The discussion is how much intense study time do different degrees require? And remember, Purdue looks down upon all aspects of help for their athletes. Tutors and mentors are not considered "help" as any student could get those things, although not paid for. My comment relates to help with papers, tests, attendance ... and I do have supporting evidence.
Most frats have copies of every test ever given. Do engineering students really have it harder than any other major? Or do they just know the answers to the tests? Students in a majority of degree programs at Purdue take Calculus! I took both calculus and chemistry as part of my education degree. The accounting classes are just as hard as chemistry and bio chem is just as hard as thermo! Depending on the instructor French can be just as hard as physics. Ever take a geometry class with a professor who doesn’t speak English? I was never an engineering major, but I had many engineers in the same classes I took and boy they were not the smartest students in my classes.
I’ll repeat. I am led to wonder how many Purdue alumni would have graduated without the help of memorizing the answers from those cheat test copies they had access to.
I’ll repeat. I am led to wonder how many Purdue alumni would have graduated without the help of memorizing the answers from those cheat test copies they had access to.
I tried looking for IU, but never saw them mentioned. However, I was able to find this-
"A" The Hard Way, 2010:
https://www.gradeinflation.com/sweet162010.html
GradeInflation.com's Sweet Sixteen of Tough Graders
The Midwest
1. Purdue University. Getting an A is hard for the Boilermakers with an average GPA that has hovered around 2.8 for over 30 years. Purdue doesn't even seem to know that grade inflation exists in America. In that regard, ignorance is bliss.
Haven't looked at this for a few years, but you will find IU in the graph or the graph that used to exist
grade inflation aboot a decade old with graphs
Mentioning Notre Dame and Stanford in the same breath is a joke.
We sure could use an akeem and raheem on our team right now. One thing Hope was good at was recruiting speed.
Yeah I laughed at that too. Had a good friend major in engineering at ND and we carefully compared courses for 2 years and ND engineering was just not up to Purdue standards. Plus they do what, like 1/10 the research Purdue does? Purdue just has an order of magnitude difference in opportunity for enrichment. I'm sure it depends on your major, but I've also never been impressed with any ND grads I've worked with.
I haven’t really been impressed with very many Purd grads I had to work with. The majority of them were very arrogant and socially backward! I was a project manager and put my elementary education degree to good use explaining to them what the big picture was and what our project priorities and budget were!
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