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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way you all are obsessed with this on new years.

I wanna chime in as someone who has ample experience at t10s and LACs (my friends go to Williams and Swat). I have had a professor at my t10 (jhu) who also taught at Williams, overall the standard for teaching support, interactions with professors, and pedagogy for classes that hes taught at Williams were far higher compared to jhu. The rigor at most of these top institutions are exactly the same, I think STEM other then Physics and math seems to be harder here at JHU then Williams but the Humanities classes are definetly more serious at Williams (JHU is a stem school after all which is why im here for premed chem). He has also taught at Princeton as well as a visiting faculty member, Princeton seems to have just as good as teaching as the top LACs so if you get in you should always go there.

The faculty student ratios are misleading and comparing them to LACs is frankly stupid, LACs are intended to teach and all faculty at LACs are dedicated solely to teaching and some research work. There are faculty at many R1s who will never step into a classroom, so while williams and penn may both have 7:1 student faculty ratios, the teaching ratios are much lower at Williams. Thats the trade off you get with going to a top research school, its amazing for some students and not so great for others, acknowledging that doesnt take away from the teaching available at Penn that is still infinetly better then at UMD.

There are no LAC targets for jane street or quant lol, theres only like 5 universities that are quant targets at all and thats pushing it. The top LACs seem to be ivy equivalents for all intents and purposes, you wont have as much R1 on campus research opportunities but the education is definetly stronger. Just consider the trade off whenever your choosing between the two types of schools. [/quote]
Hate to break it to you, but JHU is top 10 in name only for undergrad. There is no question that Williams slots in higher than JHU, so your noblesse oblige act does not work and makes you seem ignorant.[/quote]

Hate to break it to you but your useless little retort just identifies you as one of the mindless drones on this thread who are so insecure about anyone questioning the relative quality of Ivies doesn't make you seem ignorant, it identifies you as ignorant. The truth is that there are many schools across many subjects whom are equal to or better than the group of schools which comprise that athletic conference. Top SLACs, including many beyond Amherst and Williams are superior schools for undergraduate education outside of Engineering and CS. Technical focused schools both public and private lead most of the conference in engineering fields. I know that it hurts, I know that it stings your fragile sense of self-worth. Strive to move beyond your infantile emotions in the new year. You can strive to be better.[/quote] Hate to break it to you, but you're useless. [/quote]

LAC “education” epitomized here. would send kid to jhu 10/10 times over an LAC. Yield, selectivity, freshman stats all agree over a lackluster williams or amherst[/quote]

The delusion runs strong in this one.[/quote]

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