Reply to Comparing STEM Curriculum /Grading In Most Selective Universities To Other Well-Regarded Schools

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Comparing STEM Curriculum /Grading In Most Selective Universities To Other Well-Regarded Schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a STEM PhD. I would never go to H/Y/P, nor would I ever encourage one of my STEM-oriented kids to do so. They do not have a good reputation when it comes to STEM fields, and I'd honestly question the judgement of anyone who went to one of those schools for a tech-related or science-related field. Law is one thing, STEM is another thing entirely. I would never hire such a person, nor would DH who is also in the field.

We'd bet a lot of money that STEM courses would be a LOT easier at H/Y/P than other schools that are more highly regarded for those fields. I wouldn't consider it an issue of grade inflation etc, more just that they don't have the expertise or the good students in those areas to really have a challenging curriculum.

Stanford is the obvious exception. It's a good STEM school.[/quote]

This is just complete B.S.

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton all rank in the top 25 for institutions producing the most PhD recipients from undergraduate origins on a size adjusted basis. Harvard and Princeton more than Stanford.

Harvard has the second highest number of recipients with a Physics Nobel laureate of any college or university world-wide, and the most in Chemistry and Physiology/Medicine. It also has the greatest number of recipients of the Fields Medal for math and 4th for the Turing in CS. Princeton is known for its world class physics and math departments, with the 4th highest number of Field medalist recipients. Yale admittedly isn't in the same tier as H/P/S for STEM excellence, but it's easily in the top 20 universities worldwide.

It's truly your loss, not theirs, that you'll bullheadedly ignore distinctive STEM students simply because they came from HYP. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics