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Lindagerr · #12 (**permalink**) 06-29-2008, 10:48 PM

I am not saying Rutgers is easy or that there is anything wrong with Rutgers. My husband is a Rutgers graduate and I wanted my son to go there and still hope he will eventually.

I was trying to make the point that local perceptions are not always the same as what the broader picture is. At my sons graduation 1 this year and 1 last year from the two local high schools, the principals made a big thing of talking about how many students were going to schools like Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford etc. Neither principal mentioned how many were going to Rutgers.

I do live in a poor town in one of the richest areas of the country. The children in my sons schools almost all had thier own cars lots of them new and most of them better then what I drive.

So I would say if you want to get a better job in todays highly competitive work place, get your BA or BS wherever you can get it fast and cheap save your money to get you into a good masters program with better name recognition.( I am mostly talking to those in the mid-thirties or younger, they still have plenty of time to get both a BA/BS and a masters and still have lots of years to build a career.)