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Because they include the Applied Physics Laboratory.</p>
<p>All of the data presented can be made to look good with sleight of hand.</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that the % of faculty that’s full-time refers to full-time faculty as a percentage of full-timers plus TAs…I think it refers to full-time faculty as a percentage of full-timers plus “adjunct” (part-time) faculty. TAs aren’t “faculty.”</p>
<p>And if the average class at Dartmouth has 20 students and the average class at Wisconsin has 29 students, to me that qualifies as a “negligible” difference. And it’s not like the profs at Dartmouth all breezed to doctorates at HYP and the ones at Wisconsin eeked out M.A.s at a Missouri Valley Conference schools.</p>
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<p>Adjunct faculty members are usually to teach higher level courses, and TAs are - part-time for sure - used to teach lower level courses. At Stanford, some of the lowest level courses are taught by PostDocs who are full-time instructors, no TA teachings.</p>
<p>^Exactly. The professors at Top 50 schools are generally getting their doctorates from the same places.</p>
<p>Wait what? No no no. Some of the non tenure track instructors got their doctorates at the same places. Very few tenured faculty members at Stanford got their PhD there.</p>
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<p>Wen Shi won a Rhodes Scholarship. He is also a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Scholar like myself :D</p>
<p>[Headlines@Hopkins:</a> Johns Hopkins University News Releases](<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/news/home03/nov03/rhodes.html]Headlines@Hopkins:”>http://www.jhu.edu/news/home03/nov03/rhodes.html)</p>
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<p>The NSF changed the methology. JHU didn’t manipulate or misrepresent any information as you are suggesting.</p>
<p>“Johns Hopkins has led the NSF’s research expenditure ranking each year since 1979, when the agency’s methodology changed to include spending by the Applied Physics Laboratory in the university’s totals.”</p>
<p>LOL. NSF’s sleight of hand to help JHU. Johns Hopkins would STILL be #1 in R&D spending in 2007 without APL (which constitutes approximately half our R&D research expenditures). Our faculty is extremely capable of winning peer reviewed competitive grants (1 out of every 5 grants are typically given funding by a peer reviewed committee of research scientists from very top universities like UCB, UMich, MIT, Princeton etc… with some going as high as 1 out of every 10 grants accepted and funded)</p>
<p>"In FY2002, Johns Hopkins became the first university to break the $1 billion threshold on either list, recording $1.14 billion in total research and $1.023 billion in federally sponsored research that year. To date, no other institution has reached that $1 billion mark. "</p>
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<p>This part I know. His great-grandfather was a famous scholar in China back in 1920s. His name Wen came from his great-grandfather. You still did not answer my question: how to finish JHU in 2 1/2 years?</p>
<p>According to the NSF for total (all sources) research spending in the last year reported (2007) JHU did a net (excluding APL) of $776 Million placing it behind UCSF, Wisconsin, UCLA, Mich, UCSD and Duke.</p>
<p>[nsf.gov</a> - SRS Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2007 - US National Science Foundation (NSF)](<a href=“404 Page Not Found | NCSES | NSF”>404 Page Not Found | NCSES | NSF)</p>
<p>My D1 might have been able to finish her undergrad in 2-1/2 years, I think. she took gobs of AP credits (“AP National Scholar”) and also at least 6 actual college courses before she started her formal undergrad studies. College policies may differ on how much credit to give for work done prior to attending a university.
Clearly transfer students can graduate in less than 2-1/2 years from their final university, and if you are coming there with already 2+ years of course credits, including substantial #s of actual college courses, you are in a sense not very different than a transfer student.</p>
<p>btw: anyone heard from hawkette or xiggi lately?</p>
<p>USNews finally addressed Undergraduate Teaching and a couple of major publics with high PA scores and grad programs (Cal-Berkeley and UMich) are among those highly ranked. How can that possibly be? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-ut-rank]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-ut-rank)</p>
<p>Wen Shi was obviously not a transfer: He came as a high school junior and graduated from JHU four years later. Does JHU have any residency requirements?</p>
<p>^^bluebayou, do you have the rest of those rankings?</p>
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<p>OOPS. I meant JHU would still have been #1 in R&D expenditures (minus APL) in 2006, not 2007. </p>
<p>Including APL is NSF’s decision, NOT JHU’s… because APL is a UARC, not a FFDRC.</p>
<p>Plus, it’s financially impossible to separate APL (research arm of the University) from annual financial reports as a non-profit organization that has tax-exempt status. </p>
<p>It’s not like JHU lied by saying Argonne/Fermilab was financially and institutionally apart of UChicago (because UChicago only manages employment contracts with externally sourced scientists), Caltech incorporate JPL into it’s budget, or Berkeley reporting LLNL, LNBL, etc… in it’s financial budget (since they each operate it for the federal government, they do not own the entire laboratory like JHU does)</p>
<p>Just imagine APL as an extension of the engineering school with a campus 4 times larger than Homewood dedicated solely for research & development for NASA and DoD. 
MIT has an equivalent (MIT Lincoln Lab) that conducts $700 million for the federal government, but MIT only operates and manages it, it does not function as a UARC like JHU APL does)</p>
<p>President Eisenhower told JHU to keep running APL after WW2. JHU would have dismantled APL long after developing the proximity fuse (rated along with Berkeley’s atom bomb and MIT’s Radar as fundamental 3 most important inventions that aided Allied Victory in WW2)</p>
<p>“Happymedstudent is butt hurt that Upenn was ranked so high”</p>
<p>Haha. I wouldn’t exactly put it quite so crudely.</p>
<p>“I’m challenging you because you don’t know what you are talking about and you are a ■■■■■.”</p>
<p>If I were a ■■■■■, then someone must be ■■■■■ bait?!?!</p>
<p>^^^ Posting that retort ^^^^ after 4 days and about 100 posts??? How is that helpful to the conversation?? Just wondering…</p>
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<p>where do you go to med school? I bet you’d name your first-born Franklin to get into Penn med.</p>
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<p>Can Someone post the PA of NYU, Tufts and Wake Forest? Thanks you in advance.</p>
<p>sorry; double post.</p>
<p>sorry; triple posts</p>