Vandy 2017er Here To Answer Questions!

bernie12
Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:22:28 +0000

Also, I think they’ll want the seminars. They’ll probably learn way more and it is also better from a pragmatic point of view. Smaller courses w/more in dept content usually means more meaningful faculty contact which is good for networking and recommendations and the sort. You will find that didactic lecture based courses (especially large ones) are quite over-rated (and sometimes downright useless) when you get to college (and this is even the case for if you have what is considered a good or “great sounding/organized” lecturer. Both formats have limitations, but lecture is usually not great if you want critical thinking and problem solving skills developed more easily. They tend to encourage memorization or algorithmic problem solving skills whether that is the key to success in the course or not; Meaning that a very challenging course asking you to go beyond this is even more challenging with a primarily lecture format).

In addition, smaller courses often end up awarding higher grades (several reasons could explain this). ;)

Faline: Is that scholarship the primary one given to students at Vanderbilt or does it work like ours where there are several big ones (that grant full tuition plus some other stuff) and then there are also partial scholarships that emphasize different sorts of talent and leadership.