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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Harvard's endowment is $37 billion.  I guess they can be pretty generous.  Of course only .4% of college students attend an Ivy so I don't know why you keep posting this as representative of anything.[/quote]

Exactly.  There is a wide variety of choice for the 0.4% and for the ultra rich.  For the rest, it is big box education.  But diversity of thinking and backgrounds has always been a strength of the US.  This will hurt our country in the long run.[/quote]
Got news for you, there is plenty of 'diverse thinking' at a large state university.[/quote]

I agree with you, and must say I find the term "big box education" incredibly offensive.

State universities have genius teachers, are doing amazing research, and are great values.  To compare them to Sam's club is ignorant.

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most them them, for undergrad, have survey courses with 500-700 students and then sections taught by foreign TAs, often with a poor command of English.  That's their business model.. The profs of course prefer to work with the grad students and pursue their own research.  True, some are better than others, but this description is quite common.  Also Princeton Review's Top Party Schools are almost always public flagships.[/quote]
.. says someone who has never set foot on a university campus. [/quote]

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