intellectual atmosphere of ND

Mombot
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:38:54 +0000

One other data point: Fr. Jenkins wants more undergraduate students who want to pursue graduate education in academic subjects. ND does not send as many students into academic graduate schools as similarly ranked schools with its resources. Both D. and her friend, who show some promise in those areas, have been invited by their professors to talk about their plans and have been encouraged to look at Arts & Letters. ND has a reputation for attracting students who are interested in the professions, and they want to balance that with those who want to excel in research and academia. If you ARE interested in an academic discipline and reseach it might be a place where you get a lot of attention–they have a lot of very talented faculty there and the ones in Arts & Letters may be somewhat underutilized in terms of leading students into the fields they specialize in.

Just a thought picked up from some invitations D. has received this year.