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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tufts is an R1 research institute with a medical school.  Pomona is not.  For a serious biology student, the opportunities are going be greater at Tufts.  The quality of the basic science research simply isn’t the same as slacs.  [/quote]
And yet Pomona is the fourth biggest per capita producer of biology PhDs, whereas Tufts isn't in the top 50. And how many research opportunities at Tufts are going to grad students instead of undergraduates?

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#biological-sciences[/quote]

Presumably they get those at R1 universities where they can do the types of research unavailable to them as undergrads.  Look at the research coming out of slacs, little of it is hard core basic science, they don’t even have access to the most expensive equipment.  [/quote]
You understand that the background of Pomona faculty skews towards Ivy League or highly prestigious research institutions right? You think those kinds of people are fully content doing "hard core basic science" for a career. You also can't get NIH or NSF grants for basic science, yet Pomona faculty have no issues receiving that funding. Also, don't have access to what most expensive equipment? The college has so much lab instrumentation that I think you haven't even looked into any of what you are talking about.[/quote]

I work at a major academic center, and have both NIH and private industry lab funding.  Do what you want.  With respect to my own kids, I would not send one set on biology to a slac. My guess is you are not a Md/phd.[/quote]
And that's great, but now with the context of your previous comments, I am now going to have to assume that you don't do much of anything, hardly hard core basic science, since those grants are given to anyone-even those as poor as the faculty at Pomona College.[/quote]

Am I suppose to find it compelling that you can’t tolerate disagreement with your opinion? [/quote]
Dude I’m just using your argument. It’s kind of concerning the cognitive gymnastics you had to perform to get to that conclusion seeing your own reasoning and intentions in front of you.[/quote]

My argument is my own lived experience so clearly you aren't.  And it isn't an "argument" so much as what I would recommend (and have recommended) to my own kid.[/quote]

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