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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is at a lesser Ivy (one of Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Columbia) and literally can't get a professor to answer an email. Sent one an email a month ago, resent and the professor never responded.  Just had the same experience this week. It's like a black hole at this school. I know because the kid came to us "what am I doing wrong?" I had to say I have no idea. The questions were totally reasonable things that the professors could have answered with a line. And these were not world-renowned people who have 100 independent demands on their time but assistant professors. 
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Were the questions things that are obvious from the syllabus or would have been easy to figure out had they gone to recitation? It is not a professor's job to answer basic Qs that have already been explained. If the questions are about course content or class, then your student needs to go to office hours. Professors much prefer office hours to answer questions. Guaranteed if you copied your kid's emails and asked a professor, they would tell you why it is not being answered. [/quote]

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