| If VM is really talikng about 20 or even 200 colleges as the only acceptable ones, he is not talking about "glorified community colleges". And this is no slur on community colleges that produce some of the best students and citizens around.
I just spent the WE with one of the smartest people I know. Went to Exeter, then Brown, then Harvard in theoretical physics and is doing post-doc work at Stanford. OK, what does he know?? He said his GC at Exteter gave him terrible advice. What was it? To go to Harvard. He ignored her advice and went to Brown. He said he was on the faculty at Harvard (as a TA) and he could see that the undergraduates were being short-changed, both with faculty and advising. Anyone can disagree with this in any way, but he was there...recently... |