Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 13:33     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:With threads discussing the excellent academics of Strathmore, Haverford, and others, the link elaborates on qualities of non-Harvard schools taking nothing away from Harvard.

http://m.theintell.com/blogs/college-transitions/colleges-that-are-probably-better-than-harvard/article_03bd17e8-7e48-5c02-ba2e-3bf7d0f14fc8.html?mode=jqm


Amherst and Williams are just as good.


I was really underwhelmed with the quality of the Amherst undergrads (all with very high GPAs) who entered the PhD program I taught in. They were smart kids but poorly educated for the most part. This could be discipline-specific, but there were also structural elements -- pervasive grade inflation, small faculties, and an open curriculum meant that a student could get a BA with honors without having any clue about the field as a whole or how to do different kinds of research.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 13:26     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Haverford is NOT comparable at all to Harvard. Stanford, MIT are impressive especially for STEM. Haverford is a teeny tiny nothing that someone will mistake for Frostburg. Get over yourself.
You need to get over yourself. Of course Haverford is not comparable to Harvard, duh. But there are other excellent options, and many rejected from HYP DO choose Swarthmore, etc.

There is no way, no how anyone here would believe you are HYP. Calling a school a "teeny tiny nothing" says more about your mindset than Haverford.


For other options, Swarthmore yes, Haverford no. As for me, I attended a public state school and I am a one percenter. Yes, my mind set is that 49k per year for Haverford is a waste of money. It's not Harvard and a public university can provide a better education for significantly less money.
You chose to attend a public university but consider others beneath you who decide to make choices that befit them. Yes, you are a one percenter in far more ways than one.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 13:10     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Haverford is NOT comparable at all to Harvard. Stanford, MIT are impressive especially for STEM. Haverford is a teeny tiny nothing that someone will mistake for Frostburg. Get over yourself.
You need to get over yourself. Of course Haverford is not comparable to Harvard, duh. But there are other excellent options, and many rejected from HYP DO choose Swarthmore, etc.

There is no way, no how anyone here would believe you are HYP. Calling a school a "teeny tiny nothing" says more about your mindset than Haverford.


For other options, Swarthmore yes, Haverford no. As for me, I attended a public state school and I am a one percenter. Yes, my mind set is that 49k per year for Haverford is a waste of money. It's not Harvard and a public university can provide a better education for significantly less money.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 13:04     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Haverford a "comparable option" to Harvard? LOL

I see Haverford having lots of negatives such as size of the school and boy/girl ratio but no huge positives.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:59     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:With threads discussing the excellent academics of Strathmore, Haverford, and others, the link elaborates on qualities of non-Harvard schools taking nothing away from Harvard.

http://m.theintell.com/blogs/college-transitions/colleges-that-are-probably-better-than-harvard/article_03bd17e8-7e48-5c02-ba2e-3bf7d0f14fc8.html?mode=jqm


Amherst and Williams are just as good.


Amherst and Williams are noted in that article as being as good. No worries.

As a professor and parent, I hope that my children will attend SLACs and then go onto a larger researcher universities for graduate school. It is so important as an undergraduate to form close relationships with the faculty. I also would reassure parents who are not that familiar with academia to rest assured that if your child is in a place where s/he is seriously looking at a school like Harvard, then chances are that their future employer or graduate adviser will not just know about, but look very favorably upon the prestigious liberal arts colleges.
Ah, a voice of reason. How refreshing!
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:54     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:Haverford is NOT comparable at all to Harvard. Stanford, MIT are impressive especially for STEM. Haverford is a teeny tiny nothing that someone will mistake for Frostburg. Get over yourself.
You need to get over yourself. Of course Haverford is not comparable to Harvard, duh. But there are other excellent options, and many rejected from HYP DO choose Swarthmore, etc.

There is no way, no how anyone here would believe you are HYP. Calling a school a "teeny tiny nothing" says more about your mindset than Haverford.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:53     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:With threads discussing the excellent academics of Strathmore, Haverford, and others, the link elaborates on qualities of non-Harvard schools taking nothing away from Harvard.

http://m.theintell.com/blogs/college-transitions/colleges-that-are-probably-better-than-harvard/article_03bd17e8-7e48-5c02-ba2e-3bf7d0f14fc8.html?mode=jqm


Amherst and Williams are just as good.


Amherst and Williams are noted in that article as being as good. No worries.

As a professor and parent, I hope that my children will attend SLACs and then go onto a larger researcher universities for graduate school. It is so important as an undergraduate to form close relationships with the faculty. I also would reassure parents who are not that familiar with academia to rest assured that if your child is in a place where s/he is seriously looking at a school like Harvard, then chances are that their future employer or graduate adviser will not just know about, but look very favorably upon the prestigious liberal arts colleges.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:43     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:With threads discussing the excellent academics of Strathmore, Haverford, and others, the link elaborates on qualities of non-Harvard schools taking nothing away from Harvard.

http://m.theintell.com/blogs/college-transitions/colleges-that-are-probably-better-than-harvard/article_03bd17e8-7e48-5c02-ba2e-3bf7d0f14fc8.html?mode=jqm


Amherst and Williams are just as good.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:39     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Haverford is NOT comparable at all to Harvard. Stanford, MIT are impressive especially for STEM. Haverford is a teeny tiny nothing that someone will mistake for Frostburg. Get over yourself.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:36     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Harvard is an excellent, top school. But I would bet that most of the posters, now and later, have not and will not get into Harvard (or Yale, Princeton). It's nice to know there are comparable options.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:33     Subject: Re:Schools As Good As Harvard
Anonymous wrote:Strathmore?
You haven't a clue.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:32     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Columbia lots of schools with a better educational ROI than Haverford. Who said Haverford is so excellent for education? Maybe socially if you are a boy due to the ratio of 4 girls to every guy.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:30     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
There is a massive leap downward from Harvard to Haverford.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:27     Subject: Re:Schools As Good As Harvard
Strathmore?
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2015 12:27     Subject: Schools As Good As Harvard
With threads discussing the excellent academics of Strathmore, Haverford, and others, the link elaborates on qualities of non-Harvard schools taking nothing away from Harvard.

http://m.theintell.com/blogs/college-transitions/colleges-that-are-probably-better-than-harvard/article_03bd17e8-7e48-5c02-ba2e-3bf7d0f14fc8.html?mode=jqm