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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is interesting to see the impressions that people get.  Having been at Hopkins, Harvard and several other places (either as a student, researcher, faculty or more than 1-day visitor for work) and from a little bit of feedback from colleagues, here is my categorization:

Total ignorance of undergrads:
Caltech
Harvard (to some degree)
UCSB

Much but not total ignorance:
Berkeley
U Chicago
JHU
Yale
University of Washington

Attention paid
MIT
Princeton
Penn

At the center:
Harvey Mudd
Reed / other SLACs

Just my two cents, not at all scientific.[/quote]

I'm guessing from your list that you're in a STEM field.  I'm in the humanities but have had similar types of exposure to a bunch of the same schools.  FWIW, my experiences/impressions are pretty closely aligned with yours.  Harvard might be the exception -- I'd move it to "much but not total ignorance" and suspect that the difference in our perceptions is field-related.

What prompted your "to some extent" qualifier in that case?  Depends on field? individual professor? individual undergrad?  (I ask because I think my kid's going to end up a scientist and I wonder whether Harvard's a place where quality/intensity of grad students limits lab/mentorship opportunities available for undergrads.)[/quote]

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