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So just list colleges that have strong core curricula so people that value that can choose them.  UChi, Columbia, etc.  
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Core curriculum is not the same as a gen ed curriculum. You can have a great gen ed curriculum without a core curriculum, so this argument is a total red herring. In fact if you don't believe in a gen ed curriculum at all, why not go the way of the "British system" and spare the students a year in undergraduate school? If you are going to have a gen ed curriculum, then make it robust and strong and not some "BS watered down" nonsense. And Williams' gen ed curriculum is just not strong enough, because the types of courses that fulfill the requirement are not rigorous enough as defined on that site.

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I'm not even gonna argue this one, or concede I might be wrong on this point.  You'll get a better education from better professors at Williams or (open curriculum) Amherst than you will at Pepperdine, in almost every discipline.  End period.[/quote]

[b]That is just an assertion without any proof.[/b] [/quote]

No, its an opinion, and one shared by virtually everyone who knows even a tiny bit about colleges.

[quote]Yes, for a dedicated student I am sure Williams and Amherst will provide great courses and excellent professors and maybe they attract better profs than Pepperdine, but that is not the whole story. 
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Lol.  Yes, it is.

[quote]Unless you force students to choose from a list of rigorous courses (mind you that is different from a core curriculum), the quality of courses and the strengths of the profs do not matter at all. The fact is that the average Williams and Amherst student can get by and graduate by taking a very poorly structured gen ed curriculum, because the college allows them to. [/quote]

Total horseshit.

Students choose.  Students have different majors.  Smart students don't choose easy paths just because they can; in fact they do the opposite.  Your site's ranking contradicts itself.  You've got it 100% reversed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aNp6bJCAhU

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