Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pitt

Universally loved?

Well, except by Penn Staters.

9 pages in, it looks like the answer to your question is no.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary

There is a W & M hater on these boards.

Yep, an entire thread where posters discuss how Williamsburg is a terrible college town (and a boring place for tourists and retirees), not to mention an academic pressure cooker with lousy sports.

Well, you sound like the W&M hater. Most of those posts seem to have been made by one person.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It’s well known, so of course noted by many posters.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised

Who actually advertises that Harvard delivers a good education for undergraduates? That's not its purpose.

Dean of Harvard College: "We seek to provide students with a deeply transformative experience."

What's missing is that tenured professors may play a very small role in that experience. Best to think of Harvard undergraduates as licensees rather than students.

Why single out Harvard for this? This is true of many schools. The U.S. higher education system is largely set up with undergraduates as second class students fund faculty, administration, graduate students, and research.

Because that is Harvard's soft spot, and it's more pronounced there than at its traditional rivals. When Nebraska cracks the US News Top 10, we can talk about how many courses are taught by grad students.

Many top schools have classes taught by graduate students.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's only MD people who hate UVA because they are bitter they have to spend $50k to go to a decent state school.

College Park has all the charm of a strip mall in Laurel

While this is true, UVA is in the land of Confederates.

Let me guess, you're posting from D.C. or Maryland and don't know that both were south of the Mason-Dixon line, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line

That may be true, but the University of Maryland - as drab and uninspiring as it is - is not hard-wired at its core to idolize a rapist slaveholder. So there's that.

You clearly don't know about the history of slavery and the eastern seaboard universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_at_American_colleges_and_universities

Au contraire. But that doesn't make UVA's continued idolization of Jefferson, which defines the school in the eyes of so many, any less pronounced or idiosyncratic.

In the meanwhile, here's some light reading while you wait for a green light to return to "the grounds": https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2112

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's only MD people who hate UVA because they are bitter they have to spend $50k to go to a decent state school.

College Park has all the charm of a strip mall in Laurel

While this is true, UVA is in the land of Confederates.

Let me guess, you're posting from D.C. or Maryland and don't know that both were south of the Mason-Dixon line, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line

That may be true, but the University of Maryland - as drab and uninspiring as it is - is not hard-wired at its core to idolize a rapist slaveholder. So there's that.

You clearly don't know about the history of slavery and the eastern seaboard universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_at_American_colleges_and_universities

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's only MD people who hate UVA because they are bitter they have to spend $50k to go to a decent state school.

College Park has all the charm of a strip mall in Laurel

While this is true, UVA is in the land of Confederates.

Let me guess, you're posting from D.C. or Maryland and don't know that both were south of the Mason-Dixon line, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line

That may be true, but the University of Maryland - as drab and uninspiring as it is - is not hard-wired at its core to idolize a rapist slaveholder. So there's that.

Nor is UVA, but haters gotta hate

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's only MD people who hate UVA because they are bitter they have to spend $50k to go to a decent state school.

College Park has all the charm of a strip mall in Laurel

While this is true, UVA is in the land of Confederates.

Let me guess, you're posting from D.C. or Maryland and don't know that both were south of the Mason-Dixon line, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line

That may be true, but the University of Maryland - as drab and uninspiring as it is - is not hard-wired at its core to idolize a rapist slaveholder. So there's that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's only MD people who hate UVA because they are bitter they have to spend $50k to go to a decent state school.

College Park has all the charm of a strip mall in Laurel

While this is true, UVA is in the land of Confederates.

Let me guess, you're posting from D.C. or Maryland and don't know that both were south of the Mason-Dixon line, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It’s well known, so of course noted by many posters.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised

Who actually advertises that Harvard delivers a good education for undergraduates? That's not its purpose.

Dean of Harvard College: "We seek to provide students with a deeply transformative experience."

What's missing is that tenured professors may play a very small role in that experience. Best to think of Harvard undergraduates as licensees rather than students.

Why single out Harvard for this? This is true of many schools. The U.S. higher education system is largely set up with undergraduates as second class students fund faculty, administration, graduate students, and research.

Because that is Harvard's soft spot, and it's more pronounced there than at its traditional rivals. When Nebraska cracks the US News Top 10, we can talk about how many courses are taught by grad students.

Anonymous wrote:How about a place like Cal Tech? No real sports teams to hate and they produce actual rocket scientists?

You can fly under the radar when you're a school for nerds on the West Coast with an enrollment smaller than WJ or Blair. Congratulations.

How about a place like Cal Tech? No real sports teams to hate and they produce actual rocket scientists?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It’s well known, so of course noted by many posters.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised

Who actually advertises that Harvard delivers a good education for undergraduates? That's not its purpose.

Dean of Harvard College: "We seek to provide students with a deeply transformative experience."

What's missing is that tenured professors may play a very small role in that experience. Best to think of Harvard undergraduates as licensees rather than students.

Why single out Harvard for this? This is true of many schools. The U.S. higher education system is largely set up with undergraduates as second class students fund faculty, administration, graduate students, and research.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It’s well known, so of course noted by many posters.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised

Who actually advertises that Harvard delivers a good education for undergraduates? That's not its purpose.

Dean of Harvard College: "We seek to provide students with a deeply transformative experience."

What's missing is that tenured professors may play a very small role in that experience. Best to think of Harvard undergraduates as licensees rather than students.

Anonymous wrote:
It’s well known, so of course noted by many posters.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/03/18/a-harvard-education-isnt-as-advertised

Who actually advertises that Harvard delivers a good education for undergraduates? That's not its purpose.