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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The high stats just buy you the lottery ticket...[/quote]

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People keep saying this but I got a PhD at an ivy league school and both sat in a couple classes with undergrads and taught a couple classes to undergrads. There is a sizable minority of absolute buffoons in ivy league undergrad programs. And it's not the athletes [/quote]

And you should listen to some of these ivy students carry on about the doctoral candidate TAs tasked with doing some of the instructional work.   They are less than impressed.

It a college full of young adults folks.  Bright folks but there are definitely a bunch of idiots there as well.[/quote]

Well, most doctoral candidates don't even want to teach and 80% of them are nonnative speakers in technical fields (and even some non-technical fields)[/quote]

Lol.  Well then I don't see that they have the standing to be hypercritical if the undergrads.

They applied to a program that includes teaching responsibilities.  No one made  them do that, but if they take it on,  rise to the occasion or don't be slamming undergrads for not doing the same.

And there are some very high quality TAs.  But some are poor quality.  These are large institutions and some weakness gets in.[/quote]

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