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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After sophomore year they will insist that everyone is moving out. They can't possibly live in a dorm or campus apartment. It will be cheaper. The will work to help pay for it. Don't buy any of this. Your student's chances of persisting to graduation drop off a cliff, statistically, once they move off campus. I know. I'm a dinosaur. Flame away. It's the truth.
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Public universities have too many kids, too few dorms, the gap between bottom 20% and top 20% is vast, and there are too few faculty to have face-to-face interaction with struggling kids.

At a public U if you're goofing off you can EASILY find other goofs to clown around with. Miss class for months? Nobody cares. Fail all your classes? Nobody cares. Go home and never come back? Nobody cares.

At decent privates you ditch one class everyone knows. [b]Your door is getting knocked on by faculty. Your classmates are going to bother you. You'll be seen as abnormal. You can't fly under the radar at a decent private.[/b][/quote]

This was untrue at Harvard.  [/quote]
It’s untrue at every college in the country. I don’t know what PP is smoking.[/quote]
  it is probably not untrue at that special needs college in Florida.
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I keep hoping the PP will come back to explain which college, exactly, had faculty who went to some kid's door because the kid decided to "ditch one class."  I can't imagine what that would look like.  None of my professors EVER came anywhere near my door, on campus or off.  This was Harvard.  My profs had better things to do with their time than go to some undergrad's door to nag about missing class.

I expect my ds's profs to be superior in their fields, and to be actively writing/researching.  It isn't their job to look after my kid, who is mature enough to get himself to class.

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