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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Take US News Top 50
2. Remove these 5: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Wisconsin, and Illinois
3. Insert these 5: [b]BU[/b], Northeastern, William and Mary, Wake Forest, Rochester
There’s your top 50…[/quote]

BU is already T50 (low 40's).[/quote]
Sorry. I meant top 40. Follow instructions above for top 40. America’s top 40 — Casey Kasem-like.[/quote]

+100 
That sounds right based on how parents and students decided.[/quote]

But you don’t know for sure because your system doesn’t actually tell us.[/quote]

Exactly. Ignore him.

Guys like him just don't want publics passing their mediocre privates.

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Public’s are great if you want to get trained in a trade like CS, Accounting, or engineering. Large classes taught by TAs are not a great educational model if you want to learn to think and communicate, key skills higher up the food chain.

Those who know, know; the rest go to large public’s and think that they are getting an education but in reality are just being trained.[/quote]

Guys like you say this then disparage SLACs in the same breath.[/quote]

I am quite fond of LACs. I firmly believe that they are the best model for undergraduate education.

I like publics, but I recognize them for their original purpose which was making the citizens of their states employable for functions needed by the states economy.

The large publics are also some of the very best for grad schools where they can gather significant resources for partially trained students and researchers to use in advancing research and knowledge.

The best smaller research schools (which includes the Ivy's) fit a middle ground mixing the qualities of LACs and publics in some areas but not exceeding the best LACs or publics in their defined swim lanes.[/quote]

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