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ShamusTheClown t1_j8wc69o wrote

Reply to comment by mommy2brenna in Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

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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