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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just think people on DCUM obsess over these schools way too much. DD got into Uchicago, Williams, and Penn for economics. We didn’t even look at Williams, because it cannot offer anything at the level of Chicago or Penn. It’s a fine school and has good outcomes, but the top universities have small classes, great research opportunities, and much better funding.[/quote]
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Nice try resurrecting an old thread because you are getting whacked around on a different one. [/quote]
It’s weird seeing people think they’re more important than they really are.[/quote]

I agree. The classes are smaller and there is less competition for professors' attention but the reality is that the professors are not as impressive or renowned as they are at larger universities. For example, the professors at Pomona are not as impressive in terms of what they have accomplished compared to even the less highly ranked UCs - Merced or Riverside. UC Riverside is just 20 mins away from Pomona in terms of location but is able to hire professor who are top in their field, more so than Pomona or other LACs can hire. NYU has much more impressive profs than Hamilton. USC has more famous profs than either claremont mckenna or occidental. Tufts has more renowned experts who are profs than Amherst.  [/quote]
Pomona has Jonathan Lethem on faculty. No one at UC riverside or Merced is anywhere near accomplished. Other established faculty include Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Mietek Boduszyński, Sara Sadhwani, Edray Goins, Tahir Andrabi, and many more. Amherst’s scholars in their Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought department eclipse the political science offerings at Tufts (William Taubman, Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, Adam Sitze). It also has wonderful faculty in English and various other fields including Judith Frank, current writer in residence Min Jin Lee, Ilan Stavans, and Alexander George. I don’t know anyone comparing NYU and Hamilton or CMC and USC nor why they would. Even then, CMC has leading government scholars- a few of which are heavily instrumental to our current administration, one advising the US on international policy with china,  the leading scholar on Frederick Douglass, and a leading scholar in conservative thought. CMC also has Henri Cole, another internationally famous writer, critic Leland De La Durantaye, well known holocaust scholar Wendy Lower, and World Bank Advisor William Ascher.

The idea that liberal arts faculty are poor quality or worse is just…wrong.[/quote]

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