I asked a girl who described herself in the comments as a student at a famous, highly selective university where she went, and I was disappointed to hear it was one of the so-called MARCH universities. MARCH schools may be well-known, but I don’t think they’re difficult to get into at all. They’re universities an average high school student could get into after studying for two or three months. Is she being conceited by writing something like that in her own profile?
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Personally, I think the only students who should describe their university as highly selective are those at former Imperial Universities, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio or Waseda (top faculties only), or medical schools.
I’m Nana Ayase ♡
So, in your eyes, it’s no good unless she went to a top-tier university?
You’re looking for someone that academically gifted—did you graduate from Kyoto University or the University of Tokyo? Is education really that important to you? How strange.
Why don’t you think about it more carefully? Why does she have to meet that standard? Is it because of your own insecurities?
I don’t need someone who can do nothing but study and still lacks common sense.
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Maezawa from the CEO’s office here, answering as well.
That’s only what the questioner thinks; in general, they’re considered difficult-to-get-into universities.
Even Wikipedia says:
MARCH is a commonly used name for a group of prestigious private universities headquartered in Tokyo and the Kanto region. The name comes from the first letters of their English names:
(M) Meiji University (Chiyoda)
(A) Aoyama Gakuin University (Shibuya)
(R) Rikkyo University (Toshima)
(C) Chuo University (Hachioji)
(H) Hosei University (Chiyoda)
Furthermore, Benesse’s website says that the deviation scores vary depending on the faculty, department, and admissions format, but lists them as follows:
Meiji University: 66–78
Aoyama Gakuin University: 65–79
Rikkyo University: 66–79
Chuo University: 62–80
Hosei University: 64–77
The questioner wrote that these are universities an average student could get into after studying for two or three months.
But “average deviation score” means 50, right?
These aren’t universities that someone with a deviation score of 50 can simply get into.
And since they’re considered prestigious enough to be described that way even on Wikipedia, most people in Japan see them as difficult universities to get into.
So even if the questioner is the only one claiming otherwise, that just makes them a
complainer
—someone who lives to gripe, I suppose?
Ah, I ended up answering even though this wasn’t a question.
Even though Kazu had gone to the trouble of writing the rules ＞＜
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I’m Dai, a male member.
There’s no official definition of what counts as a prestigious university.
The universities and departments listed are simply based on your own perception, aren’t they?
Also, university rankings can change considerably over time. Were you aware of that when you wrote this?
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I’m Paper Airplane, a male member.
I’m guessing you graduated from either the University of Tokyo or Kyoto University, right??
Even among world-class athletes, there’s a huge gap between winning a gold medal and winning bronze or merely placing.
But from the perspective of those of us who play sports, simply winning a prefectural championship or qualifying for the national tournament is already impressive and worthy of praise.
The same goes for prestigious universities: there’s a big difference between the University of Tokyo/Kyoto and the rest, but in society, other factors matter more. Just getting into a top college-prep high school is something to be proud of.
At a club, if a girl has properly graduated from university and can hold an appropriately intellectual conversation, I think that can certainly be presented as one of her advantages.
But personally, I don’t care about academic background at all.
P.S.
Just to add: for us Kansai people, Waseda and Keio are merely safety schools, so why did you even mention them?
Ah, I’ve ended up stepping onto the same playing field… How embarrassing…
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I’m Meg, a female member.
No matter how prestigious someone’s university is, it won’t last if you can’t communicate with the person sitting across from you…
In the end, charm is what matters most! lol
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I’m Kazu, a male member.
Feel free to ask me anything.
The “Rules for Using the Anonymous Question Box” state:
> If the administrators determine that a post mainly consists of someone expressing their opinion, both the question and the answer will be deleted in their entirety.
If she wasn’t someone you wanted to date, you could simply choose not to pursue things and move on.
Do you think the person asking this is rather full of themselves for posting something that isn’t even a question in the question box just because MARCH universities aren’t considered highly selective?
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