Top Economics & Applied Math Schools

Alexandre
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:19:46 +0000

“What I was trying to say was that comparing excellence of undergraduate education and excellence of graduate education is comparing apples and oranges and whoever said that was okay is, at the very least, misguided. Are the most, wrong. ;-)”

You are accusing people who think that there is a correlation between undergraduate education and graduate education of being, at best, misguided. But it is you who is misguided if you think the two aren’t related. Whether you like it or not, the quality of the faculty and the wealth of courses and research opportunities for undergraduates availlable at research universities are impossible to ignore. Your attempt to discredit Columbia, or any top rated research university, is not entirely accurate.

And the whole bit about TA’s not speaking English well enough is mainly a topic of the past. In the 90s, it is true that many universities gave international graduate students who spoke English poorly TA positions. However, those students are now usually givien research positions only. Sure you have a few universities who do not screen their GSIs, but that’s not common anymore.