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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just happy that people aren’t putting 3 at the top. There’s too many PhDs coming out of the Ivy league, let alone the rest of the T50, to even begin suggesting that there’s some extreme difference in education. Unless your kid is on the bounds and is highly highly intelligent (like top 0.001%) where they need specialized/accelerated instruction to the level of grad school near freshman year, you’re probably receiving a very similar education to others.[/quote]

Purely anecdotal. Have your PhD friends published any literature about this topic?

No. Ask faculty who have taught at both. Look at course syllabi. We have multiple relatives who are phD and md-phd who are teaching at a wide range of places. The faculty themselves are not too different barring the very top schools who tend to hire from each other, but the student set is vastly different: they can detail how much they have to water down and slow the pace when they teach at (unnamed 40-something) vs ivy. All institutions put pressure on faculty to keep the average student receiving no lower than a B : they have to rework their courses from what they taught as T10 postdoc, or risk not advancing to tenure. Parents are highly involved and students can ruin a professor on ratings or complaints to the dept chair. [/quote][/quote]

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