One advantage/disadvantage of going to a prestigious university.

[Jason Voorhees]

One major pro and con of going to a prestigious uni is being constantly surrounded by certified winners. Every single person in my uni has always been a winner. The main charecter all his/her life with an epic story. National Olympiad medals, founding startups in high school, breezing through CFA Level 1/2 while juggling internships landing insane offers at Jane Street/Citadel right out the gate. It's like walking into a room where everyone's already hit multiple sixes in their life and is warming up for the next big innings. You are surrounded by future CEOs,startup founders, groundbreaking researchers. The sheer density of talent and ambition is unreal. People in my uni are aiming for the stars and beyond. The alumini network is also insane.

But the constant exposure creates intense "comparison fatigue." You start feeling mediocre AF because your classmates aren't just smart. they're high achievers across diverse fields. The state level athlete acing quantum physics, the published researcher also crushing M&A case competitions. While the environment pushes you harder (according to studies peer effects significantly boost individual academic performance at elite schools) it also warps your perspective on success. My 4 years I kept fighting against these people for a place and to be noticed. I'm going to uni in week let's see what my classmates have done probably something insane.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@imontheloose @Saint Casanova @HighIQ ubermensch

 

[asdvek]

bitch be humble n sit down

going to university is shit, dropship and escape the matrix

 

[HighIQ ubermensch]

fraud and escape the matrix

 

[Saint Casanova]

@imontheloose @Saint Casanova @HighIQ ubermensch

You’re grounded back to reality when you realise you’re not hotshit anymore. That’s very brutal on your ego.

 

[HighIQ ubermensch]

One major pro and con of going to a prestigious uni is being constantly surrounded by certified winners. Every single person in my uni has always been a winner in his life. National Olympiad medals, founding startups in high school, breezing through CFA Level 1 while juggling internships landing insane offers at Jane Street/Citadel right out the gate. It's like walking into a room where everyone's already hit multiple sixes in their life and is warming up for the next big innings. You are surrounded by future CEOs,startup founders, groundbreaking researchers. The sheer density of talent and ambition is unreal. People in my uni are aiming for the stars and beyond. The alumini network is also insane.

But the constant exposure creates intense "comparison fatigue." You start feeling mediocre AF because your classmates aren't just smart. they're high achievers across diverse fields. The state level athlete acing quantum physics, the published researcher also crushing M&A case competitions. While the environment pushes you harder (according to studies peer effects significantly boost individual academic performance at elite schools) it also warps your perspective on success. My 4 years I kept fighting against these people for a place and to be noticed. I'm going to uni in week let's see what my classmates have done probably something insane.

water tbh

 

[sms]

Who let your dirty indian ass in anything prestigious

 

[Jason Voorhees]

water tbh

It is a very humbling experience tbh. People tell me I am very successful and have my life sorted at 21 but there are people in uni 10 steps ahead of me

 

[HighIQ ubermensch]

It is a very humbling experience tbh. People tell me I am very successful and have my life sorted at 21 but there are people in uni 10 steps ahead of me

They're the top of the top
you're still top 1% & will be appreciated a lot more after you graduate

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@aladdinmaxxer

 

[Chadeep]

Is your Grading Comparable to IIT Kanpur?

 

[robtical]

Actually good tbh

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Is your Grading Comparable to IIT Kanpur?

Yes.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@wishIwasSalludon

 

[(In)CelibatePsycho2]

All universities are rape because they make you do homework and study for exams

 

[Jason Voorhees]

All universities are rape because they make you do homework and study for exams

Profs in my uni never forced us to do work but we did it anyway because the competition was so stiff you'd be left to dust

 

[LTNUser]

Profs in my uni never forced us to do work but we did it anyway because the competition was so stiff you'd be left to dust

Damn,is the competition in top Unis at a whole different level everytime?
What would you advise a guy on how to prepare yourself academically before going to Uni?

 

[Foreverbrad]

Better to be a big fish in a small pond than the opposite tbh.
I have no ambition any more, if I’ve achieved nothing by 31 I have no chance to ever achieve anything significant.

 

[inversions]

This happened to me in secondary school. I'm not in uni rn but I go to the best academic secondary school in my country and just seeing so many smart kids achieving so much demotivated me like crazy tbh.

 

[Stefan Cosma]

For me the pros are possibly getting connections and joining elite clubs

The cons are the price and hard classwork

I don't give a fuck about the worthless manmade achievements of others. I'm better than them in the ways that matter

 

[grilldaddy❤️]

Makes sense I couldn’t hack it at a good uni

 

[(In)CelibatePsycho2]

Profs in my uni never forced us to do work but we did it anyway because the competition was so stiff you'd be left to dust

Perfect slave

 

[Cicciosudmaxxer]

Dnr
Indian

 

[Mr_Bombo_mogs]

Academic is probably the worst example of genetic determinism no amount of passuon can account for being high IQ and ethnic

 

[Mr_Bombo_mogs]

By chance if your in a russler uni what gcse grade did u get