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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. [/quote] 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] This is such a bad take if you actually know anything about the top large publics. Or even ones a bit further down. For starters, “large classes taught by TAs” does not describe the overwhelming majority of classes a kid will take, or maybe any classes at all in many cases. Just ignorance cloaked in smug faux knowledge. [/quote] I taught at a large public in my grad school days. The idea that undergrads are exposed to elite profs is pretty much not the case. The top profs did research with their PhDs mostly, that was their job. Most lower classes are taught by assistant professor though along with some PhDs needing extra money. I knew full professors who hadn’t taught any undergraduate classes in many years. It is a waste of their time.[/quote]
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