Vanderbilt Premed Weed Out

bernie12
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:25:34 +0000

@AnnieBot : Yes, many professors are very facetious (and kind of jaded…though it isn’t like highered is that much worse since they went through it). If they bring it up, it usually is their way of saying something like I did…“it doesn’t mean much”(faculty at some elites are flat out willing to write in publications that despite a school’s rise, they haven’t noticed any increase in classroom performance and I remember one faculty member at Duke and several at places like Dartmouth complaining the opposite is going on in many cases. Many science instructors, for example just continue to teach the same way even as the student body changes for example and would report that they get similar means). Although, most professors at these sorts of schools would admit to seeing differences in the classroom that result from more robust merit scholarship programs. So when a school at the level of an elite school gets more students like Sophie (as in can give a CV scholarship or its equivalent), the change is noticeable (Often even if the stats are similar to the rest of the student body, merit scholars often are the ones that had different attitudes toward learning than many others which is why the person was selected). Usually the “on paper” smarts only translate to the classroom to a solid but limited extent. Ideally, you do see it translate to endeavors outside of the classroom though.