SDSU? I hear they're not very personable there in general.
Well, generally speaking I would assume this to be the case for most public universities anyway because of the potential 500 students per course. I would imagine from the perspective of a professor how insane that would be to
personally get to know every single student every semester. I was lucky to get some course where there were only 40 students (and yes, I do call it luck because I always seemed to crash the courses successfully while others were not so fortunate). The school is overcrowded and students can't always get the courses they need so you have students doing five year programs instead of four and also probably because they wanted to take the easy professors (visit ratemyprofessors.com). I didn't really care so I graduated in four years instead and I thought it would be a balance to have both easy and tough professors. I was also accepted to UCSD but did not attend because I had a lot of personal issues that prevented me from going there, to make a long story short, I had a lot of personal struggles in my life, growing up in region that was of low socioeconomic status and a single mother.
So yes, the majority of professors are not that personable particularly in the school of business because it is like the most popular major and it's a totally different level of competition. I knew people that went to a community college and said it was so easy to get an "A" but when they transferred to state, they started to get "B"s. You'll have professors where they only give a certain number of "A"s after all, they can't give everybody the letter grade of A. Psychology is probably the only exception to all the majors at that school and I would probably say it is the easiest major in the entire school (probably easier than the other sciences too). In my opinion, I really felt the professors were personable but maybe that is just me, who knows.
I would like to also congratulate you for getting into that school for I hear it's very difficult.
Thanks. Yeah, I hear every year, it just gets harder and harder to get in because more students apply and there isn't enough space. The school of business is probably the most difficult to get into, I hear you need like a 2.9 or a 3.0 GPA to get in. Some people say that is easy but if you really think about it, that is a very high GPA. Essentially that means you need all "B"s or higher. If you want a minor in business, you must have a minimum GPA of 3.0.
When it was ranked best college, what were they basing it on?
I don't really know how to answer this question as I don't fully understand what you mean by best college. It certainly isn't "the best" college as I am sure there are other colleges that rank higher than that. I would certainly say the Ivy League schools are superior to SDSU but again it all depends on your career field and major. If you want the best psychology experience in its most rigorous academia, then I would recommend going to UCSD, they have a much better program. UCSD is more for like doctors and scientists and SDSU is more like for business, arts, and nursing (UCSD does not offer a degree in nursing or business). SDSU is also known for being a party school too. Nonetheless, it does have one of top nursing programs and is certainly one of the best schools in the whole country.
Were they basing it off how where graduates of SDSU go after college or there test scores?
Uhm, well when I was in my final year in high school, you know teachers and family members kept pushing college like crazy. Everybody always assumes you need to attend college and they kept preaching about it, of course, I was young and ignorant. I can tell you I know a lot of people that are unemployed whether or not you want to believe it. Also, watch this documentary called "College Conspiracy" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE
However at that time, I was not "awakened". It was only after a couple of years after I graduated when I began an awakening process which is why I stumbled upon videos such as "Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M4tdMsg3ts
Without having to bore you with extensive writing, the way I can explain it all simply is through a clip from the Maxtrix on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps
Yes and no. Yes, it was interesting to meet a lot of people but at the same time not really because I felt that I have learned so much more outside of school now that it's been several years after I had graduated.
I know many people with a degree in psychology yet they have jobs that don't even require that degree at all.
Oh yeah, they work at Starbucks.
What do you wish you majored in?
Probably nursing because there are more job opportunities.
True, I've seen some Wells Fargo employees like you described. But schooling does help and it looks good for a college resume. It's pretty hard to get a well-paying job without a college degree. Do you think that you learned a lot with your business administration degree?
Not really. At the university, they intentionally make it harder than it appears. In real life, it really isn't that complicated unless you want to be a CPA, CMA, or a CFA. Marketing and management is just....common sense. In fact the research has demonstrated that EQ is four times the variance and two times the profit over IQ (what I learned in the school of management and industrial and organizational psychology). The research also shows that the more formal education one receives, the less creative they become. Now if you want to work at Wall Street and something like that, good luck competing with other Ivy League graduates with your SDSU degree. I'm sure graduates at Duke University will have an advantage. Have you seen all the seasons of the
The Apprentice by Donald Trump? I have and there was a season in which it was the college graduates versus the non-college graduates, and they were essentially dead-even.....so like I said before, performance supersedes educational background. In the words of Donald Trump himself, "I know someone with just a high school diploma that makes three times as much as someone with a college degree."