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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the TO talk makes me wonder - what's the point of creating a specific class to your standards, whatever those standards are? Just a prestige thing? [/quote]

Because for financial and logistical reasons they need a certain % of the class to be “… studies” majors.  It costs way more to run labs and educate STEM majors, and since tuition doesn’t vary by major, they need to balance it out.  They need a way to attract and keep the rich donor and otherwise connected kids who can’t keep up with more rigorous courses.  They need to enrich the said kids’ experiences by providing structured but very  low pressure interactions with the slice of population they will never encounter on their own.  They want to be able to field a bunch of sports teams (big money there).  Etc, etc.

No, the “diverse” class is not for your benefit.  [/quote]
This is why the institutions are big on non-science liberal arts. What does the funding of a math or English department look like:

Annual budget: Chalk— $800 [/quote]

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