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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is at a lesser Ivy (one of Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Columbia) and literally can't get a professor to answer an email. Sent one an email a month ago, resent and the professor never responded.  Just had the same experience this week. It's like a black hole at this school. I know because the kid came to us "what am I doing wrong?" I had to say I have no idea. The questions were totally reasonable things that the professors could have answered with a line. And these were not world-renowned people who have 100 independent demands on their time but assistant professors. 
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I’m a professor and can say that assistant professors at those schools are incredibly busy trying to get tenure based on their research output. They are maybe more busy and stressed than the senior faculty. Teaching and answering student questions is at best a low priority if not an outright distraction.

I was advised as an assistant professor to spend as little time as possible on teaching.[/quote]

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