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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Penn for sure. No one seriously thinks you have more opportunity at Williams unless they’re a lousy student[/quote]

obviously there are far more opportunities at UPenn, but it's not about quantity, it's about quality. Williams has more opportunities than anyone attending could possibly utilize within four years, so that Williams offers 700 courses and UPenn offers 2500 isn't particularly meaningful unless you want to do cutting edge graduate level coursework (which most students at either school do not).

Williams, as a school with a 6:1 student to faculty ratio (vs. Penn's 8:1), a distinctive Oxford style tutorial program offering 2:1 student to faculty classes, and an honors program with a known track record of producing more academics per capita than UPenn (12th nationally vs. 90th), offers potentially the strongest quality of undergraduate education you can get in any college in America. 58% of UPenn classes are under 20 students, compared to 75% of Williams classes. Williams professors' top priority is their undergraduates; the academic advising and individualized mentorship is unbeatable. 80-90% of Williams students applying get into med school in a given year, whereas UPenn has historically ranged from 71-83%. In fact, Williams is a stronger feeder than UPenn for students enrolling at top medical schools per capita (though UPenn still ranks top 20 nationally).

Williams does all this while still doing comparably for feeding into Wall Street and top business schools at comparable rates to UPenn, in case you want to make an argument that Wharton has more professionally oriented students. 
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I don’t get the LAC obsession with PhD admission. Grad schools are disgustingly predatory and often toxic. I’d rather a kid get a job then delay it by 6 years.[/quote]
+1, I graduated from a t3 lac and almost every professor tried pushing grad school at some point. Years out now, it doesn’t seem to offer much for these young undergrads who are just scared to get their first job. I’d much rather a school prepare its students to go into the real world than put them through the academic hazing camp we call grad school[/quote]

Why are you replying to your own post? Because you're insecure and suffering a bit of cognitive dissonance, that's why.[/quote]
You seem so sure of something you have no evidence of. We know who not to listen to.[/quote]

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