Quality of a VT education
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DP. Troll |
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| VT acceptance rate is 40 or 50% for in state? The school is made up on slightly above average kids in the state. Quality of education is dictated by the quality of the kids. Just look at the public high schools in VA. So much cheating. It’s a joke. VT courses can’t be that serious with such students. |
Anonymous
There is something wrong with your brain. Yes, there are a ton of students who are there to actually learn. Doesn't matter what their major is. |
Anonymous
Utter BS |
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Cite to a peer-reviewed source? |
Anonymous
This isn’t true at all. Average kids can receive an outstanding liberal education in the right environment. The question is does VT foster a scholarly environment or a pre-professional environment. Based on the volume of folks crying “troll” on this thread, if they represent VT, they are struggling to engage in thoughtful discourse. |
Anonymous
Was surprised how much most professors cared. They welcome students at office hours, and judging by reports from my VT grad, were open to conversations. Can’t speak to many higher level humanities courses bc mine was a science major. An author read in a humanities class was invited to campus and students were part of the professor-hosted dinner. Look into the honors college which has these sorts of events regularly. That’s also where you’ll find the physics /humanities double majors. You will find « will this be on the test? » students in all American colleges and universities these days. You might be surprised. |
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PP again. It’s been a few years since I looked at the curriculum for several schools. I would have preferred my kid who wanted VT to go to a liberal arts school. It is, officially, a polytechnic. My kid had more science classes for their science major than were required several top LACs. Though they had some literature, writing and ethics classes, I would have preferred more reading and writing. On the other hand, they know more science than I’ll ever know.
Another thing to keep in mind, it’s big. We also knew some fantastic students in science and engineering who were accepted to higher ranked schools and simply could not afford to go. This was their opportunity; they are not less engaged or less intelligent. They are readers, writers and thinkers who will always lead interesting lives. Not saying this is everyone. Saying these students and professors are there in numbers, but you have find your people. In a big crowd, sometimes that takes longer. |
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Does anyone take these classes seriously at any college? I’m not sure arguing a school like Harvard is superior when, if you are to believe recent articles, students don’t take classes seriously and don’t read materials. |
Anonymous
Sucks for Harvard. SLAC’s don’t have this problem. |
Anonymous
Only two schools in VA have the environment you seek, one public and one private. W&M and Washington & Lee. |
Anonymous
Total BS. Harvard requires 80 credits minimum, for MechE, Purdue requires 45 credits, for MechE, yet only 20-30 for many other E porgrams. Plus H requires a research thesis on top of the credits. Dig into the details of the courses and it gets worse. |
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Math is very much thinking. You can’t memorize your way through college math. |
Anonymous
I reject your premise. Who said you need to be elite to be scholarly? Don’t let VT off the hook, demand more. |