So, where are your kids starting college next fall?

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Anonymous wrote:Marquette. She got into the 6 year doctor of physical therapy program and is THRILLED!

I'm jealous I love Marquette.

I love custard. Seriously. Check this out.

https://www.kopps.com

As soon as you get off the plane, even in the airport, you feel the difference.

Do you know what I am talking about??

DP. Lots of fat folks?

That is true, but more to the point, it is quiet and polite. Even TSA stops yelling.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

With that list? Likely someone not headed into engineering. And probably not CS. Neither Harvard nor UVA are Engineering/ CS superstars. For engineering, it would By VT, for CS, CMU and the UCs. In fact, I’m not sure what RPI and UVA have in common. Bio? Chemistry? Probably not Physics...

Economics? Biology?

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Anonymous wrote:My S who is interested in studying Econ broke my heart and chose University of Chicago over Duke (and Dartmouth and UVA in state) though it was a toss up between Chicago and Duke until the very last week (I'm a Duke alum and I think that wasn't a plus in my son's eyes). B/c Chicago gives housing preference based on date of deposit, my S is at the bottom of the barrel re: housing there but he doesn't seem to mind.

All of their housing seems to be really nice, not to worry.


I of Chicago here too - it was the only place DC wanted to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona College. We actually live in Claremont, CA but he will be living on campus. Hopefully the best of both worlds. He was given an amazing aid package, too.

My daughter’s dream school. Good luck!

Pomona as a city is one of the worst cities in CA. Pomona and San Bernardino are the murder capitals of CA.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/20/local/la-me-ln-la-now-live-pomona-homicides-20130819-dto

Pomona College is in Claremont, dunce.

Pomona college still has unusual amount of sexual violence against women students. Bunch of perverts. Don't take my word for it. Google.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/13/advocates-warn-against-ranking-colleges-handling-sexual-assault-based-clery-data

While it makes for good headlines, researchers and advocates say using federal reporting data to assess the prevalence of campus sexual assault or to rank the relative safeness of individual colleges is ill advised and even irresponsible.

“It is really misguided to use sexual assault reports as rankings, because schools with higher rates are actually doing a better job of encouraging reporting and addressing the issue,” Laura Dunn, founder and executive director of the victims' advocacy organization SurvJustice, said. “By ranking schools with higher rates as unsafe, the media's uninformed coverage is actually discouraging schools from better addressing campus sexual assault. We don't want to push reports into the shadows; we want [assaults] to be reported and dealt with appropriately.”

As Clery data only include crimes that happen on campus, many institutions in urban areas where most people live off campus regularly report zero rapes. At the same time, this can mean private liberal arts colleges in small towns with large on-campus populations can report disproportionately high rates of sexual assault.

Clery data should not be used as a tool for comparing or ranking institutions, said Mary P. Koss, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona and a pioneering researcher on the prevalence of campus sexual assault.

“It is a completely, totally invalid assumption,” Koss said. “In some respects, high numbers can be good. If you’re revamping your approach to sexual assault, you would actually expect the number of reports to go up. But even those high rates are not credible, as they are just the number of reports, not actual assaults. The bigger story is looking at those numbers in the context of how many rapes are being identified by climate surveys.”

For institutions that have few reported rapes, that gap can be even wider. According to the Clery data, the University of Oregon, for example, only reported six rapes in 2014. The AAU survey found that more than 500 Oregon undergraduate students said they had experienced attempted or completed nonconsensual penetration in the last year.

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Yeah, I just sorted the data and apparently NYU had 0 reports? Seriously? No way is that accurate. You can't trivialize individual reports, but as mentioned, this data has to be taken with caution. It probably has more to do with where students are comfortable reporting/seeking out the help they need than where incidents happen the highest. I see many of the top schools up there- Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Wesleyan, Amherst, Swarthmore, Stanford- anyone who is familiar with those schools knows that they're not prone to any more of a "rape culture" than other schools, they just have a lot more in place to support students.

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"Chicago should be a no brainer in Econ.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/1...conomics-in-2017/#1a60f73c79bf

Any list of top ten economics programs in the world has Chicago on it, unusually in the 5-7 range. Duke is somewhere in the mid 20s through mid 30s.

Chicago has had 9 members of the economics faculty get Nobels. I am not an alum of either school and don’t have college age kids yet. But even I know your kid made a great call."

I know nothing about Econ so I really am asking... Is it better to go to UChic for undergrad or grad school?

In my science field, you wouldn't want to go to the same place for both.

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" UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

With that list? Likely someone not headed into engineering. And probably not CS. Neither Harvard nor UVA are Engineering/ CS superstars. For engineering, it would By VT, for CS, CMU and the UCs. In fact, I’m not sure what RPI and UVA have in common. Bio? Chemistry? Probably not Physics..."

I suspect that UVa, RPI and Case Western were their safeties. Most likely, they are from VA and that RPI and Case Western are fishing expeditions for merit aid.

I don't think you would leave Berkley out of chemistry either... but maybe they don't want the west coast.

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Anonymous wrote:Marquette. She got into the 6 year doctor of physical therapy program and is THRILLED!

I'm jealous I love Marquette.

I love custard. Seriously. Check this out.

https://www.kopps.com

As soon as you get off the plane, even in the airport, you feel the difference.

Do you know what I am talking about??

DP. Lots of fat folks?

That is true, but more to the point, it is quiet and polite. Even TSA stops yelling.

Who has energy left after all that food?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marquette. She got into the 6 year doctor of physical therapy program and is THRILLED!

I'm jealous I love Marquette.

I love custard. Seriously. Check this out.

https://www.kopps.com

As soon as you get off the plane, even in the airport, you feel the difference.

Do you know what I am talking about??

DP. Lots of fat folks?

That is true, but more to the point, it is quiet and polite. Even TSA stops yelling.

Who has energy left after all that food?

30.7% of Wisconsin residents are obese. This is compared to 29.9% in Maryland, 29.0% in VA. You're reaching.

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Anonymous wrote:Pomona College. We actually live in Claremont, CA but he will be living on campus. Hopefully the best of both worlds. He was given an amazing aid package, too.

My daughter’s dream school. Good luck!

Pomona as a city is one of the worst cities in CA. Pomona and San Bernardino are the murder capitals of CA.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/20/local/la-me-ln-la-now-live-pomona-homicides-20130819-dto

Pomona College is in Claremont, dunce.

Pomona college still has unusual amount of sexual violence against women students. Bunch of perverts. Don't take my word for it. Google.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/13/advocates-warn-against-ranking-colleges-handling-sexual-assault-based-clery-data

While it makes for good headlines, researchers and advocates say using federal reporting data to assess the prevalence of campus sexual assault or to rank the relative safeness of individual colleges is ill advised and even irresponsible.

“It is really misguided to use sexual assault reports as rankings, because schools with higher rates are actually doing a better job of encouraging reporting and addressing the issue,” Laura Dunn, founder and executive director of the victims' advocacy organization SurvJustice, said. “By ranking schools with higher rates as unsafe, the media's uninformed coverage is actually discouraging schools from better addressing campus sexual assault. We don't want to push reports into the shadows; we want [assaults] to be reported and dealt with appropriately.”

As Clery data only include crimes that happen on campus, many institutions in urban areas where most people live off campus regularly report zero rapes. At the same time, this can mean private liberal arts colleges in small towns with large on-campus populations can report disproportionately high rates of sexual assault.

Clery data should not be used as a tool for comparing or ranking institutions, said Mary P. Koss, a professor of public health at the University of Arizona and a pioneering researcher on the prevalence of campus sexual assault.

“It is a completely, totally invalid assumption,” Koss said. “In some respects, high numbers can be good. If you’re revamping your approach to sexual assault, you would actually expect the number of reports to go up. But even those high rates are not credible, as they are just the number of reports, not actual assaults. The bigger story is looking at those numbers in the context of how many rapes are being identified by climate surveys.”

For institutions that have few reported rapes, that gap can be even wider. According to the Clery data, the University of Oregon, for example, only reported six rapes in 2014. The AAU survey found that more than 500 Oregon undergraduate students said they had experienced attempted or completed nonconsensual penetration in the last year.

Not sure what the point of the reply is. That the reported cases are unreliable? That if Pomona suppresses reported cases, they don't exist?

[Anonymous]

Hiring manager for software engineers here. The school you attended is absolutely of importance, but not as important as how smart you are or how motivated/excited you seem. And anyone who thinks Harvard has a bad CS program is insane. It’s top 5 in the US for producing truly gifted programmers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

With that list? Likely someone not headed into engineering. And probably not CS. Neither Harvard nor UVA are Engineering/ CS superstars. For engineering, it would By VT, for CS, CMU and the UCs. In fact, I’m not sure what RPI and UVA have in common. Bio? Chemistry? Probably not Physics...

Economics? Biology?

One nice thing about UChicago...they don't penalize the students for having a*hole cheerleader parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago over MIT, Case Western, Harvard, RPI, and UVA.

Who in their right mind would phi know U of Chicago over MIT.

With that list? Likely someone not headed into engineering. And probably not CS. Neither Harvard nor UVA are Engineering/ CS superstars. For engineering, it would By VT, for CS, CMU and the UCs. In fact, I’m not sure what RPI and UVA have in common. Bio? Chemistry? Probably not Physics...

Economics? Biology?

One nice thing about UChicago...they don't penalize the students for having a*hole cheerleader parents.

Where did this come from?

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Anonymous wrote:Hiring manager for software engineers here. The school you attended is absolutely of importance, but not as important as how smart you are or how motivated/excited you seem. And anyone who thinks Harvard has a bad CS program is insane. It’s top 5 in the US for producing truly gifted programmers.

Have you read the study google did on programmers from top schools vs state schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Hiring manager for software engineers here. The school you attended is absolutely of importance, but not as important as how smart you are or how motivated/excited you seem. And anyone who thinks Harvard has a bad CS program is insane. It’s top 5 in the US for producing truly gifted programmers.

Have you read the study google did on programmers from top schools vs state schools.

No, I haven’t. Would love to read it, but I couldn’t find it after a few minutes of searching. Can you link it?

I went to a state school, so I know there are plenty of good candidates that come from those schools.