Why doesn't Princeton have any professional schools?!
RE: "then again, another of the OP’s threads is entitled “Why doesn’t leg hair grow like head hair?” Inquiring minds want to know . . . . Read full thread
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Too confusing. People would have to stop saying HYPS and have to say HYS, and then people who say WASP would get confused because the “P” is supposed to be for Pomona. WASPP just doesn’t have the same...
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Dartmouth college has Master’s and PhD programs. http://graduate.dartmouth.edu/programs/ So it is really a University. I think ALL of sherpa’s “Not Universities” are universities. A university need...
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To quote @makennacompton: What are National Universities? National Universities offer a full range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s and doctoral degrees. In many cases, they place strong...
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makennacompton, Further, as noted above, Princeton has other schools besides the college. It has a Graduate School with its own dean and everything. So rest assured, Princeton, your university...
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I can’t find the source right now, but in NY at least there is a legal definition of a college vs. a university. A local “college” is trying to rebrand itself as a “university” and they are unable to...
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Further, as noted above, Princeton has other schools besides the college. It has a Graduate School with its own dean and everything. So rest assured, Princeton, your university distinction is not on...
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National LACs, Williams has Master’s (but not PhD) programs in Art History and in Development Economics. Amherst college has Master’s (but not PhD) programs in Education and Teaching. Swarthmore...
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I accept the views above. There is no necessary reason why any university needs any of three professional schools (business, law, medicine) in order to “quality” as a university. They only need to do...
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Because you are young, you may not realize that being considered a LAC isn’t a put down or an insult. It also does not suggest it is any easier to get admitted to then it would be if the institution...
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Nice post @makennacompton ! There no arguing with that. Just as there no arguing with my criteria in post #32 above, where my unstated requirement was that the college field an NCAA fencing team. Read...
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RE: “where my unstated requirement was that the college field an NCAA fencing team” Along those lines, this is why Stanford wins the “college cup” for athletics each year. It stacks the deck by having...
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Of course, you have to have Stanford’e endowment to play that sneaky game . . . Yes, but having the endowment isn’t enough. You also have to be willing to spend the money on athletic scholarships AND...
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Re; Fencing. Doesn’t Columbia always win this for the men, and Dartmouth for the women? Read full thread
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Re; Fencing. Doesn’t Columbia always win this for the men, and Dartmouth for the women? Read full thread
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Dartmouth doesn’t have a fencing team. Columbia is good but inconsistent. The four years my son fenced at Princeton it was either Princeton or Harvard winning Ivy League Chamionships and, as noted...
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Just curious, why is it Dartmouth College when they have a medical and a business school? Read full thread
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@Falcon15 Doctoral degrees and research funding/activity tend to be the most significant difference between colleges and universities. Dartmouth granted only 91 PhDs across 16 math/science PhD...
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@Sherpa re post #49, I don’t believe Stanford is admitting athletes anywhere close to the NCAA minimums. The average SAT for Stanford football recruits is around 1800, certainly well below the overall...
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@bluewater2015 - You’re right and I apologize. I didn’t mean to imply that Stanford was dipping that low, but as I reread my post I see that is precisely what I wrote. I also agree that Stanford...
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