Professor Accessibility, TA's, and Relationships

illininut
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:25:45 +0000

I am a senior at Yale. Maybe MIT is different, but my friends at Harvard agree - both our schools are full of bull when they say undergrads get access to professors, and that the TA’s are of high caliber. Couldn’t be further from the truth. I’d never leave Yale, but that isn’t because we’re offered some fabulous education or faculty access. I won’t leave because of the incredible people i’ve met and two specific professors. Otherwise, undergrads agree - Harvard and Yale are set up mainly as financial institutions, spending some time on grad students, and keeping an undergrad population because they have to, and hoping enough of us will be successful that they can milk us for future donations. My little brother awaits his EA decision from MIT, as we convinced him to avoid HYS and others for this very reason. If it doesn’t work for him at MIT, he’s off to Williams, Pomona or Cambridge, hopefully. Good luck to you all…