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- Subject: University standards
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 14:13:30 GMT
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- In SD 15.600, Brad Porter writes:
- ]I tend to feel it's the univerity's standards that are lower,
- ]not those of the public schools. If the professors at Purdue have this
- ]low of an opinion of the students, I'm going to have to reconsider Purdue
- ]as a possible school for me.
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- The problems nowadays are twofold (in my opinion): the talent is there,
- but the "best and brightest" are going for the gold (i.e. law, etc) rather
- than science/engineering; and, yes, the preparation may be inadequate (and/
- or) the counselors don't encourage their students to pursue a technical
- career. On the other hand, we at Rice have never had any trouble filling
- our undergrad SE slots with extremely talented students (we have a 10/1
- ratio of applicants to slots), so we get the very best. In graduate school
- the problem is a little different: here the problem is the perception that
- faculty and research jobs are very tight and so why torture yourself with
- years of grad school? Again, we at Rice have been fortunate to have very
- strong graduates who have generally not had major difficulty landing very
- good jobs. Recognizing the tightness of the funding recently, we have cut
- back on the number of grad students we admit each year.
-
- Bottom line: we'd love to have you come to Rice, but you'd better be good
- to make the cut! We'll work you hard, but you'll end up with a degree
- that's worth something.
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