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That's a classic "all or nothing" that the article complains about. The more obscure the major the less likely Yale is the top anyway. Say you want to go to t
by VLM 11y ago
That's a classic "all or nothing" that the article complains about. The more obscure the major the less likely Yale is the top anyway. Say you want to go to the worlds best mining engineer school. Going to Yale or transferring to Yale is not an option.
There's also a classic misconception of assuming the general public is stupider than they actually are. I looked up the transfer policies and talked to guidance counselors and got approval to transfer courses before I took my first class... Everything turned out OK. Other than the whole switching majors three times, and even that turned out OK in the end.
- aaronem 11y agoIf you want to go to the world's best school for mine engineering, Yale shouldn't be on your list to begin with. It's a sign-off for pedigreed elites, not a trade school.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoElite schools can actually teach practical things. Stanford was constituted as a school of Engineering, Agriculture and Business.
- aaronem 11y agoStanford also confers more degrees in social sciences and "interdisciplinary studies" (i.e. degrees in having graduated from Stanford) than in engineering and computer science, and has done for some years now. I don't doubt you can obtain an excellent education in those fields at Stanford, but it's been a long time since that was what Stanford was for.