I dont respect universities not nationally ranked I realized today that I don't respect people who don't attend nationally ranked universities. This probably means I'm a terrible person, but I think I can fairly justify my reasoning. I'm 18. I go to a top 20 university. I'm a Mechanical engineering major. I have a 3.74 GPA. A bunch of my friends from high school attend state schools (not ranked nationally) or city schools (in my eyes, glorified community college) and they talk about how hard they work to maintain their 4.0. I realized that whenever I read a Facebook status about how hard they have it, I chuckle and assume their lives are easy and their academics aren't challenging. I'm sure that studying business in a community college migh