Over the years, I’ve attended a significant number of quality institutions of the educational variety. Like most institutions, once you arrive at a school you start working to break yourself out. Some call it graduating, but all I know is I escaped sooner, with less debt, and without that heavy piece of evidence paper weighing me down!
Still, I must admit that at least some of these schools imbibed some educational material in me, some more than others. I’ll be the first to admit that some of the best learning moments of my life happened outside the classroom, whether it was walking around the City of Boston while (rarely) skipping class at the Boston Latin School or just hanging out in my dorm at the U. of Southern California and meeting all kinds of random and diverse people from all over the world, to driving through little country towns in North Carolina during my time at Chapel Hill, I realized life is too hectic to spend in a classroom. If you don’t get out there and start living it doesn’t matter how many degrees you stack up!
So, without further ramblings and justifications from this well traversed mind, here are the top five best schools I’ve attended, judged from an educational standpoint.
- Northeastern University
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- University of Southern California
- Boston Latin School
Now, I can see how that list might be surprising to some, but I assure you 80-90% of the BLS alumni reading this list are nodding their heads, going yup.
Sumus primi.
That is such a good list. If ever I’ll rank mine-it would be Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila here in Phil where I got my degree and my MBA as well. Kudos to you for adoring your alma mater!
damn right.
mine are
3. suffolk law
2. framingham state (yea i know… way better that SULS)
1. BLS
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Right on April.
I think Latin needs to expand and create a college and grad school.
Didn’t BLS always tell us Harvard was BLS’ college?
They did Andrew. Wikipedia says it too so it must be true!
To any non-BLS people reading this comment, Harvard was founded one year after BLS, so the school takes pride in claiming that Harvard was built so Latin graduates had a place to keep learning at.
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My big peeve about places like Harvard is that many people gain entrance there based on their wealth or celebrity status, or based on legacy. Even if I attended Harvard I’d rank BLS #1, mostly based on the student population at Latin being more representative of the total population.
I’d like to see a true Latin college, free for City of Boston residents, taught part-time by Latin teachers (perhaps one year at Latin School, one year at Latin College), 1-2 years of mandatory Latin courses (with exemption for anyone who already took Latin) and of course, the purple and white color scheme.
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My wishlist of good schools are Harvard and Yale, although I heard getting there is tough and student population seem to come from the “upper-crust”, Caltech and MIT for more of the tekkie stuff, Sydney University in Australia because I have a few friends there.
Strangely, I’ve never had a desire to attend Harvard. Perhaps it’s from growing up in my working class neighborhood or perhaps it’s from my perception that many students there get accepted based on who they are or where they come from (e.g. “upper-crusters”) rather than on their smarts. I’ve actually considered going to school in Australia, sounds like a great time.
Some really good schools there; I considered UNC for awhile but settled on UM in Florida. Good football and good academics =)
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I guess you haven’t attended Vandy yet 😉
Nothing wrong with the U of Miami FunAdvice! Loved it when my Tarheels beat them a few years ago when they were ranked in the top five, shortly after my BoSox won their first world series too…what a week!
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Jesse, nope haven’t gone to Vandy (yet?) but it’s a quality school and I’ve had a few friends go there who very much enjoyed their stay.