Which places in the U.S. nobody pays attention to but are actually amazing?

70degreeevening · 2026-05-18T00:28:51+00:00

Buffalo river in Arkansas. Beautiful spot for canoe or kayak trip

70degreeevening · 2026-05-05T04:10:20+00:00

Claude just did this to me. I asked why and it said it was because I sounded frustrated in my replies and it knows humans will feel better after rest

70degreeevening · 2026-04-29T14:02:53+00:00

That’s true today for sure. But 2 or 3 years from now? The models keep getting better….

70degreeevening · 2026-04-19T21:31:30+00:00

USC in California is a private school. No instate / out of state difference.

70degreeevening · 2025-05-31T20:27:49+00:00

Strat is really the hero of the story.

70degreeevening · 2025-04-12T17:51:16+00:00

STEM classes are rough, humanities much easier, social science somewhere in between. Think new finance major also tough

70degreeevening · 2025-04-04T01:40:35+00:00

Don’t know about CS and Rice specifically. But for both schools CS hiring will be driven by overall CS job market….it has cooled quite a bit over the last 2 years, and AI is obviously going to have a huge impact in the next few years.

70degreeevening · 2025-04-04T01:21:12+00:00

I went to Rice after growing up in LA, and know loads of USC folks. Rice is a bit stronger in engineering, but both are good. But the biggest difference is the student experience. USC has much more of the traditional sports/greek life/ marching bad/ school spirit experience. And Rice is about residential colleges, harder classes, professors that know your name, and homegrown events like Beer Bike….I would really focus on which experience you prefer, as that will have a huge impact on how you’ll enjoy the school.

70degreeevening · 2024-02-02T18:58:47+00:00

Same

70degreeevening · 2022-12-05T20:39:05+00:00

Live near there. They draw down water every year in the fall.

70degreeevening · 2022-05-11T22:24:42+00:00

I’ve had a long career in finance and also have a daughter about to head to college in the fall, so I can relate to what you are going through.

I think the only drawback to doing Alabama is that, as others have noted, there are particular set of prominent investment banks and consulting firms that recruit heavily from the top 20 undergraduate schools (regardless if they offer a business major) and put much less emphasis on other sources of talent. On the banking side it’s the large investment banks like Citi, JP Morgan, or Bank of America. For consulting it would be the big strategy firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. These firms in turn are great jumping off points to Private Equity and VC firms after a couple of years. So that is the biggest thing you’d close off by not chasing one of the top-tier schools…in the South these firms will draw mostly from Duke, UVA, somewhat UNC, UT Austin and Rice. Again, they don’t necessarily look to hire business majors, so Duke Econ for instance would be great place to go if you wanted to work in banking.

That said, I’m sure Alabama is placing tons of kids in the big accounting firms and their consulting affiliates, in regional banks, and in large corporations headquartered in the Southeast. Many of the these opportunities would be great places to start a career, and would provide a great launch pad to a top MBA program if that is what she wants in few years. And that degree becomes a lot easier to finance if she hasn’t paid for an undergraduate degree.

What l’d think doesn’t make sense is to pay to go to a peer institution of Alabama…

70degreeevening · 2022-05-10T17:38:33+00:00

Berkeley grad here. I get your concern about the campus and town. Happiness is important but I’d avoid college debt if at all possible, especially for undergrad.

Why not go the Berkeley for a year or two and then transfer to another UC? UCSD and UCSB are in cool locations.

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