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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have direct experience (you are/were a student, professor, parent of a student) with a top 25 national university or SLAC liberal arts program, how does the education materially differ from a run-of-the-mill college experience? I’m not talking about the school’s “network,” but the education itself. For example, how will the “product” of an English major educated at Princeton or Williams be different from that of a student at a US News 50-200 school. Put another way, if students at these different programs read the same books, how will their educations be different at the end of four years?[/quote]

It’s going to be hard for people to answer this because no one, obviously, has had a full undergrad experience at both. That said:

I went to Georgetown SFS (class of 2009). It was a perfect education for what I needed. I wanted to work for the IC and the SFS is essentially a professional program for that. You’re by no means guaranteed a great job after you graduate, but if you do well, the professors will leverage their connection for you. I graduated magna cum laude, and one of my professors flagged my resume at the agency I currently work for. So my experience is very specific, since it’s a pre-professional program in a way (not a liberal arts education). [/quote]

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