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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A top private.  No question.  The professors are more involved with undergraduates and the research opportunities are unquestionably more available to undergrads.

PS since when is UVA a “top school”?  No one outside this area ever thinks or considers it. [/quote]

Many of the top privates universities have more graduate students than undergraduate.   This is the opposite of all of the top publics that serve both.  Do you honestly believe the professors at Harvard, for example, are spending more time with undergrads than grad students?   Research opportunities are very abundant at a school like Michigan.  Only JHU has a larger research budget. You are misinformed. [/quote]

The fact that the top publics have way more undergraduate students is NOT a good thing. It means fewer resources per capita, less facetime with professors, etc. Complete opposite of what you are arguing.

In the case of schools like Berkeley, undergrads are a complete afterthought because the undergrad body basically serves to subsidize research at the grad level.[/quote]

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