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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of these are giant schools and the focus is on the graduate program. Pick one for your PHD, but for undergrad go with the smaller undergrad teaching schools.[/quote]

Thank you for YOUR OPINION. For the zillionth time, not everyone wants to go to tiny undergrad teaching schools. I went to a tiny SLAC and thrived. My kid is at Michigan and thriving - he's brilliant and an extrovert and wanted big. He's learning in lectures from world renowned profs and from discussion sections from PhD students and from peers, and having a blast at a big school. I'm not knocking small schools (other kid is at one too) but it is actually possible to get an amazing education and it is not actually a mistake that Michigan and the UC schools consistently show up on these rankings (every single one of them).[/quote]

They want their precious kids to attend top 25 (including Berkeley, UCLA & Michigan) but no way those kids will so they resort to attacking the publics as too large, can't get classes etc. etc. They then get their kids into an unknown slac with high acceptance rate and starts bragging about the usual (class is small, slacs produce the most ph.ds, the kid is "thriving") etc. These parents would rather send their kids to a no-name slac than a well-known school that is outside of top 50 since they will not be able to BS about a known decent public/private school outside of top 50.

Think more about your kid's future and not about whether you would be ashamed at gatherings.

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