Lesser Five vs Top Publics

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<p>Mensa, many of my numbers are estimates. But not the class size numbers. Those I got from the USNWR.</p>

<p>Dartmouth: 56% of classes under 20 students, 9% of classes over 50 students.</p>

<p>Michigan: 49% of classes under 20 students, 16% of classes over 50 students.</p>

<p>Cornell: 44% of classes under 20 students, 23% of classes over 50 students</p>

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<p>Cornell I would say is halfway between Michigan and Dartmouth/Columbia/etc in terms of stats, size, and the dynamics of the school.</p>

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<p>The reason for the high rankings of the top state schools has as much to do with the outstanding quality of the faculty and facilities as the students. Many of the advances in knowledge we take for granted were done at the top state schools. They also have many of the top labs, research and library resources in the US.</p>

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<p>You guys are so funny. I’m not on this site as much as I used to be, but when I do check it out, it seems that we’re still arguing about the same ol’ things. </p>

<p>Fight on, oh collegiate warriors. LOL!</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article505732.html[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article505732.html&lt;/a&gt;
By THE CRIMSON STAFF </p>

<p>Tufts Dean Charles Inouye told the Tufts Daily News that grade inflation at Harvard was just another symptom of their culture of arrogance image over substance.・And he went further. everybody in the business knows just how little Harvard students work,・he asserted. They’ve essentially a lazy bunch. A lot of them aren’t even that smart.・p>At the time, Inouye’s remarks aroused the ire of a vast contingent of Harvardians, and students took up their own defense through a barrage of letters to the Daily and the Dean’s Office. One outraged Crimson columnist even employed the power of the press. In the Harvard Syndrome, the acknowledged fact that some Harvard students are lazy・and the presence on campus of a few meatheads, legacies, and dim bulbs with bizarre talents.</p>

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<p>Quote from Parents Forum.</p>

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<p>"A recent paper by two faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania, Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori, compared the r</p>