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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted the Hauerwas article earlier in the thread. ICYMI, Frank Bruni also had a great piece about this general topic in the NYT over the weekend (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/why-college-rankings-are-a-joke.html?). The article has a particular focus on UMBC, a local STEM powerhouse and all-around great school. Money quote here about why college matters: Freeman Hrabowski, U.M.B.C.’s dynamic president, stressed the school’s determination to “connect students to people different from themselves and lives different from their own.” [/quote] Powerhouse, eh? Nearly 1 in 3 kids fails out of UMBC. Versus UMBC, 2x the % of each UMD class applies to medical school. The average upper middle class Beltway family turns down full rides to colleges like UMBC.[/quote] did you little brain ever think kids drop out due to finances not failure[/quote]
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