Codie Sanchez

So if I took the top

100 colleges in the United States, like if I take a top 150, we take the top 100.

For an undergraduate degree, there are the quality of the resources, faculty resources available to students are roughly equivalent.

That is to say, if I'm interested in learning history, there are

great, highly qualified historians at the top 100 universities in America.

The issue is, can you find them?

Can you take a class with them?

Can you get engaged by them?

Can you go and see them and talk to them?

Are you that person who wants to make use of their resources?

In other words, there's no point in going to the fanciest, best college in the country if you sit in your dorm room playing video games, right?

So it's really you that matters.

And so the question in choosing

a college is choose the place where you will be most motivated to get the best possible education.

And that goes back to my other point.

It's easy to be motivated to get the best possible education when you're achieving, when you're in the top third of the class, where you're getting the kind of attention that comes from being at the top.

Yeah.

The term desirable difficulty refers to the notion that some degree of constraint

or difficulty in learning is advantageous.

That being forced to adapt to some kind of difficult circumstance enhances the quality of speed and the quality of our learning.