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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am pondering all of these things for my very high stats DD.  If she feels an honors college at a “lesser” school would be a great fit …even if the overall peer composition is not nearly as good as at an ivy or T10…as long as the desired courses are offered, maybe it wouldn’t be all bad to be the big fish in a small pond?  After all, bc tenured positions are so hard to come by, generally the pedigree of the professor is much much higher than the actual school s/he teaches at (so professor will be ivy-league/top school super smart person that will gravitate towards super smart students).[/quote] This is true if you wish to go to grad school, but I would temper your expectations a bit. A big way state schools attract and keep top researchers is by putting fewer teaching/mentoring obligations on them compared to top schools. Hence, there is often more of a culture of seeing anything to do with undergrads as a necessary evil, to be minimized wherever possible to save your energy for research and your PhD students (who are actually very good due to the difference in undergrad vs grad prestige of the institution). But these are just generalities - you can try looking at schools that make undergrad opportunities a priority, like UCSB CCS, OU HTC, Texas FRI, Alabama Randall Research Scholars, etc.[/quote]

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