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DolanReloadedOp are your scores not high enough for UC boulder?
from what ive heard boulder is like a drug infested utopia
whiteboiBridger bowl and bozeman both suck, dont come here.
I'm 100% kidding, MSU is great and everything about this place is the tits. I'm a sophomore here and it's about the most ideal place for a skier or any sort of outdoor enthusiast to go to college. I go to school full time and am in a considerably difficult major and was able to ski upwards of 90 days last year between BBowl and the backcountry. 10/10 would recommend
FlorescentBoneBoulder isnt that close to good skiing compared to msu and u of u (eldora, but I said good skiing) and also it's expensive af if you're out of state.
DolanReloadedOh. I didnt know you were in stat at montana u.
Yeah boulder is like the go to college for rich out of staters. Isnt it easier to get into boulder if you are out of state too? I heard they had lower standards for out of state than in state because they want to collect the huge out of state tuition. Is this true?
GeorgeWBushthis^ i'm a neuroscience major and i skied 155 days last year between bridger and the backcountry
Freeskiinart024John is that you?
GeorgeWBushthis^ i'm a neuroscience major and i skied 155 days last year between bridger and the backcountry
DolanReloadedOp are your scores not high enough for UC boulder?
from what ive heard boulder is like a drug infested utopia
P.O.W.Just started my senior year of highschool and am definitely looking to head out west for college. I have been thinking about Montana State for the most part. If anyone has any info on the school, or on the skiing, that would be helpful.
GeorgeWBushthis^ i'm a neuroscience major and i skied 155 days last year between bridger and the backcountry
Gnar_Shralp406Is that a lot?
quixoticI would recommend going to the best university you can and then taking a hiatus from life after and get some committed shred in then. The brand of your school and the network associated with it is what you are paying for. Paying for a weak brand in the mountains will detract from your career trajectory.
quixoticI would recommend going to the best university you can and then taking a hiatus from life after and get some committed shred in then. The brand of your school and the network associated with it is what you are paying for. Paying for a weak brand in the mountains will detract from your career trajectory.
PeppermillRenoNot really. You can get good grades at these easier schools and go to a good grad school.
My mom refused to let me attend MSU for architecture (I was doing a drafting class in HS) didn't think it was good enough. Long story short no way I could have done engineering where I went it was too hard and I'm starting an architectural drafting certificate course in a couple weeks because I'm in construction yet have no training. Montana St for architecture would have been a really really smart choice.
GeorgeWBushFor those like myself with a path that includes years of post-college education, saving money on an undergrad degree is huge. msu is far more affordable than comparable universities such as CU boulder even for colorado residents. I got into brown and other ivys, and still chose msu and i haven't regretted it a bit. in fact, i have been the only non-ivy league student selected to the CUSP biomedical research internship program for three consecutive years.
also, life is too fucking short to work now and then try and shred hard at 50 years old after retirement. if your body is in peak condition at 20 years old, then you gotta take advantage of that and shred every single day while you can
Jemshow many msu kids actually ski at big sky?
quixoticI would recommend going to the best university you can and then taking a hiatus from life after and get some committed shred in then. The brand of your school and the network associated with it is what you are paying for. Paying for a weak brand in the mountains will detract from your career trajectory.
quixoticSo you are agreeing with me... 'The bachelor's from that school won't cut it, *but* if you do go there you can go to a better grad school to get the better brand name'. This is exactly what I said. That degree will detract from your trajectory. To fix this trajectory, you must now go to a better grad school.
I said finish school and then go shred, not wait until you are 50. Delaying living in the mountains for four years in trade for a solid education so well worth it. Damn near everyone I know that picked a University based on its proximity to skiing ended up failing out of school or put themselves on the 7+ year plan. Just get a good education in a timely fashion and then go be a bum for 3-5 years. You'll have a solid education to fall back on and then be able to begin a great career.
GeorgeWBushI got into brown and other ivys, and still chose msu
quixoticSo you are agreeing with me... 'The bachelor's from that school won't cut it, *but* if you do go there you can go to a better grad school to get the better brand name'. This is exactly what I said. That degree will detract from your trajectory. To fix this trajectory, you must now go to a better grad school.
I said finish school and then go shred, not wait until you are 50. Delaying living in the mountains for four years in trade for a solid education so well worth it. Damn near everyone I know that picked a University based on its proximity to skiing ended up failing out of school or put themselves on the 7+ year plan. Just get a good education in a timely fashion and then go be a bum for 3-5 years. You'll have a solid education to fall back on and then be able to begin a great career.
SendyMcSendyfaceuni is a fuckin waste dont do it
J_SMSU is incredible. Dining halls are nationally awarded.
IanAvery-Leaflmao what? Don't get me wrong I enjoyed my MSU/Bozeman experience, but the dining halls were firmly at the bottom of the list. Hopefully things have changed since '13/14 but Miller was trash during my year there
IanAvery-Leaflmao what? Don't get me wrong I enjoyed my MSU/Bozeman experience, but the dining halls were firmly at the bottom of the list. Hopefully things have changed since '13/14 but Miller was trash during my year there
GeorgeWBushFor those like myself with a path that includes years of post-college education, saving money on an undergrad degree is huge. msu is far more affordable than comparable universities such as CU boulder even for colorado residents. I got into brown and other ivys, and still chose msu and i haven't regretted it a bit. in fact, i have been the only non-ivy league student selected to the CUSP biomedical research internship program for three consecutive years.
also, life is too fucking short to work now and then try and shred hard at 50 years old after retirement. if your body is in peak condition at 20 years old, then you gotta take advantage of that and shred every single day while you can
DolanReloadedClaiming getting into ivy league schools and deferring is pretty weak sauce bro. Im personally not doubting you but you are joining a clan of collossal dipshits who claim they got into ivies and didnt go who are full of shit. If you were as smart as you want people to think you are by claiming you stood up the ivies, you probably would have just said “fuck it i dont feel like having every person i meet in my life think im full of shit saying i deferred the ivies, so im just going to go ahead and go to one of the ivies”.
But you didnt, so its probly better you stop claiming that. You would have met alot of very smart very interesting (and very connected) people at a good ivy league school, and your decision not to take advantage of that opportunity (if you really had it) kinda makes you look like an ass hat.
Acceptance letters from great colleges are like the golden ticket in willy wonkas chocolate factory, you dont ask, you just go, otherwise youre an idiot.
DolanReloadedIf you were as smart as you want people to think you are by claiming you stood up the ivies, you probably would have just said “fuck it i dont feel like having every person i meet in my life think im full of shit saying i deferred the ivies, so im just going to go ahead and go to one of the ivies”.
GeorgeWBushI simply mentioned the fact that I got into brown to give context as to how awesome msu is to have won me over.
I am going to medical school ($300+k) after college, so saving money on my undergrad was a big priority for me when I made my college decision. I am a presidential scholar at msu and pay no tuition or fees, receive a stipend every semester, and get priority scheduling. Versus attending brown, receiving very little financial aid and taking on massive debt, not to mention not being able to ski or sled to the degree that it possible in bozeman. I’m sure it would be understandable for someone who was in a different situation or had different career aspirations to make a different choice.
As I said earlier in this thread, life is way too short to be unhappy. I personally knew that I would be unhappy at an ivy league school as soon as I visited. I had the exact opposite feeling when I visited bozeman and realized I could ski and sled everyday, all while studying neuroscience at no cost.
NewWaveU of U food trash.
TahoesemilocalHe's not kidding, PHC can't even cook a pizza properly
GeorgeWBushI simply mentioned the fact that I got into brown to give context as to how awesome msu is to have won me over.
I am going to medical school ($300+k) after college, so saving money on my undergrad was a big priority for me when I made my college decision. I am a presidential scholar at msu and pay no tuition or fees, receive a stipend every semester, and get priority scheduling. Versus attending brown, receiving very little financial aid and taking on massive debt, not to mention not being able to ski or sled to the degree that it possible in bozeman. I’m sure it would be understandable for someone who was in a different situation or had different career aspirations to make a different choice.
As I said earlier in this thread, life is way too short to be unhappy. I personally knew that I would be unhappy at an ivy league school as soon as I visited. I had the exact opposite feeling when I visited bozeman and realized I could ski and sled everyday, all while studying neuroscience at no cost.
dan4060Actually, that is one of the worst possible reasons I can possibly think of for attending an Ivy. Why the fuck would anyone with a brain care whether people think they are full of shit for claiming to have gotten into an Ivy? Attending a school you don't want to attend so that you can avoid people not believing you actually got into it is incredibly stupid.
If one gets into an Ivy and wants to go that is fine. I did not look at any of them, I had no interest in going to school back east. If one gets into an Ivy and wants to go because they think the connections are simply too strong to turn down, I can see the logic in that. But to go to an Ivy simply because you don't want people to not believe you when you tell them you got in is idiocy. In fact, that is one of the stupidest things I have read on this website, which speaks volumes.
I went to a public Ivy, a UC system school. I got wait listed at Stanford. I did not try to get off the wait list, I decided I would rather go to the school I ended up attending. I got into other schools which were ranked slightly higher, some which were borderline Ivy. I chose to go to one of the best public universities in the country, a place where I could also learn to surf, live in a great environment with great people and ski Mammoth at least a couple of weekends a month. Granted, I had to drive a TON to hit Mammoth, but it was great deciding between skiing Mammoth for the weekend and surfing and partying with hot girls. That is most certainly a first world problem. I got a degree in statistics, took a few years in Tahoe, then got an M.S. in stats from another UC school. I like my job and get paid very well. I still get to ski about 40 days a year at Mammoth and I surf most mornings before work.
The Ivies are not quite as much of a golden ticket as you may think. There are lots of great schools in the country, and there are also lots of very good schools where you can end up doing just as well as you would at an Ivy. Granted, if you want to be an investment banker at Goldman Sachs you may well need an Ivy (or Ivy level) degree or advanced degree, but I have no interest in working in New York.
You can believe this, or not, but I probably could have gotten into Yale if I had really wanted to go. My academic record, though excellent, was not quite Yale level, but my SAT scores were above the median there and generations of my family have gone there. I don't know for sure whether or not I would have gotten in, we have not given them significant amounts of money, but I had other cousins who had similar academic records and similar board scores who did get in, so it would have been very possible. Like I said before, I had absolutely no interest in going. Now, had I been interested in law school and gotten into Yale THAT might have been tough to turn down, you can always go back out to California, but I would not have gone there for undergrad.
Ivy schools can be great places to make connections, but they are not the golden ticket you might think they are. Lots of people go to schools which are slight tick below and end up doing very well. If you go to Yale and get a 2.1 you will have a tough time going to med school.
dan4060While I was not a fan of the 43rd President, this reply is ASTRONOMICALLY more rational than the post it references. I can actually conceive that the author of this post MIGHT be intelligent enough to be accepted at an Ivy. The person dubya is responding to comes off as someone who completely lacks the reasoning skills to attend an Ivy without having a relative who gave around 70 million to the school, and possibly not even then. One of my best friends in boarding school had a grand father who gave around 70 million to Harvard. He was exactly the type of person people attend Harvard to meet. He was a pretty good student, although far from Harvard level. He attended Tulane. Honestly, when you have a boathouse in Central Park named after your family there is really no reason to attend Harvard unless you want to.
GeorgeWBush,
Your reasoning is completely logical and rational. Also, being a Dr. can be a GREAT way to have a great life. One of my cousins is a pathologist at Stanford. He paid his dues, boarding school at Groton, Yale and then Columbia for medical school, but until he had kids he skied around 60 days a year. He is older than me, and when I lived in Tahoe we skied together all the time. He got 3 months a year off, he would ski just about every weekend in Tahoe, and additionally take a full month off, usually from mid-February to mid-March. In the summer he likes to windsurf, he used to be able to do back flips on his windsurfer. He had kids, so now he skis far less, but I always tease him that he had things really dialed before his kids were born. He actually was going to choose brain pathology, but then Stanford told him they would not be able to give him as much time off so he stuck to general pathology. Good luck, and keep working hard. You are setting yourself up to have some very good options in life.
NewWaveMy salad tasted like puke last night. I don’t understand how Lassonde and the union have decent food and the PHC is just such shit.
dan4060Good luck, and keep working hard. You are setting yourself up to have some very good options in life.
IanAvery-Leaflmao what? Don't get me wrong I enjoyed my MSU/Bozeman experience, but the dining halls were firmly at the bottom of the list. Hopefully things have changed since '13/14 but Miller was trash during my year there
Young_pattyI dare u to come around Miller and say that while I'm cooking on the mongolian bbq grill
Butterytips69Bruh the Mongo bowls are so tight, but every time I have one I feel like I'm gonna drop dead from all the sodium.
Liam_j10Pac 12 sports are also a blast
