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- May 2, 2002
- Professional Status
- Certified General Appraiser
- State
- Arkansas
like when did that go out of style ??big boobs, a 20 inch waist and Betty Grable legs were also considered a hot ticket.

The Undergrad degree is marginally important but the choice of a graduate school is very important. The exceptions would be the engineering or mining type degrees where certainly if you can qualify for the Colo. Sch of Mines, by all means go for it. BS is a 'working' degree in engineering and such schools give you some advantage if you can hack it. I likely never had the skill set necessary but recognize Sch of Mines degrees were a better ticket than my own school.
OTOH having seen a small college degree circ. v. the Univ of Ark and we were required calculus and 47 hours major credit. The U of A had no math requirement and required only 40 hr. Overall, Ark. Tech had a far better program and, frankly, better teachers. I wasted 2 yr. at the U of A when I could have gone to a real University for my M. S. and would have got the degree instead of being unable to finish my thesis because my major advisors' wife packed up and moved in with the head of the dept...who also was on my thesis committee. Hard to defend your thesis when 2 members of your committee refuse to speak to each other....I had to leave and go to work.
Tx AM is good school, and from my interactions with people, I suspect that two of the best geological schools are Un. of Kansas and Kansas State U.