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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I chose a WASP school over Northwestern back in the day. Northwestern wasn’t the same T-10 school it is now. I’d make the same decision even today. [/quote]

In other words, ignorance is bliss.[/quote]

NP. This is an odd take. Why would you think people who choose LACs are ignorant? I went to HYPSM, spouse went to a large top public. We very happily sent our kid to a top LAC where they are getting a much better undergrad experience than we did.

So, no, I don't think we're ignorant, we know exactly what we're doing. [/quote]

The cognitive dissonance is strong in the SLAC haters.

The poster who points out that the UCs have huge classes and alot of TA's gets flack.
Another poster hops in and say "I was a TA and I wasn't qualified to be teaching gets ignored
Still another R1 alum weighs in saying "I was there and they are correct"

but everyone is lying, they "know better".

You went to HYPSM and point out that your family has lived all three models and understand the differences.....you're a huckster!
Others hop in to support you.....crickets or snark is the response.

They are the believers of "don't believe what you are seeing I'm telling you it's not true"

It's not surprising that we are where we are when so many are comfortable with their ignorance in the face of reality.[/quote]

Because reality is more complex than these simplistic, ignorant takes and anecdotes.

You talk about TAs, but the reality in modern universities is that lecturers, instructors, and adjuncts handle a lot of the entry level teaching. These people are well-qualified and have as much incentive as a LAC professor to focus on teaching. But notice how they never get mentioned, because the people here are ignorant and didn’t have these types of teaching staff when they were in college 30 years ago. And 300 and 400 level courses (and even some 200, especially for honors versions of courses) are mostly taught by professors.

Reality is that teaching is more of a focus at LACs, but plenty of professors check out after getting tenure or hang around too long and become dinosaurs.

Reality is that your teaching-focused professor is less well-known and regarded in his/her field, so their recommendation will carry less weight than someone top of their field.

Reality is that you can’t both talk about how great LACs are for going on and getting PhDs and how they aren’t as pre-professional and then claim that their alumni networks are as or even more valuable, or jump to the defense of their engineering and CS programs.

There are pros and cons to all types of universities. It’s weird to imply that it’s all pros, or somehow objectively the best.
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