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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolutely one of the top 10.

Schools like Carleton Harvey Mudd are largely irrelevant but ranked higher.[/quote]

Others have commented on why the Carleton dig is misplaced, but including HMC in an attempt to boost Middlebury is also an interesting choice!  That's probably the top undergraduate-focused school for STEM in the entire country. Says so much about PP and Middlebury![/quote]

Lots of trade schools rejects go to HMC.  If you want engineering, go to a proper school like Georgia tech or Cal![/quote]
What trade school reject is looking to spend their years doing calc, physics, bio, and chem. It has one of the most intense core curriculums in the nation, so those trade school rejects are quite smart.[/quote]

Smart ones go to MIT, CMU, Georgia tech to challenge themselves.  Just saying.[/quote]
Can you work a little harder with your trolling, it’s pretty bad.[/quote]

Yeah yeah.  You can’t refute my points — you were not even going to try.[/quote]
Because you didn’t make a point. You didn’t present cross admit data, so it’s just you listing off schools you like. Harvey Mudd is an objectively high competitive institution with a rigorous core. If you want to learn more: https://www.hmc.edu/academics/common-core-curriculum/[/quote]

Common core, just like high school all over again.  This is an outdated model.  
Smart kids thrive in environment that allows them to do big things.  Do you know how many students found start-ups in MIT, CMU, Georgia tech?[/quote]

The idea of a liberal arts education arose with the realization that with power (in the form of voting) comes responsibility (to be capable of sound judgement.) Voters were expected to be educated in the humanities, arts, math, logic, and sciences, as doing so developed the reasoning and perspective considered prerequisite for influencing civic affairs.

It’s kind of ironic some today question the value of even top colleges ensuring exposure to breadth of study given the recent election. The notion anyone, elite student or regular Joe, is best served getting exposure just to what they like most is part of what got us in this mess. Yes, our top schools lean left, but too often they produce graduates trained to speak only to the like minded and thinking they know more than they do. When a student is surprised they learned useful things and actually enjoyed some class they wouldn’t have taken if the college hadn’t required it, they just might learn a more abstract lesson on being open to meaningfully connecting with something/someone they thought they shared little with.  [/quote]

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