Quote:
Originally Posted by Stewie
It cracks me up that somehow athletic affiliation has ANYTHING to do with academics. "The Big 10 is better academically than XYZ"... bullshit. Most of the Big 10 schools are huge, hence, they have the resources to get grants ad nauseum. Northwestern actually has really strict guidelines for admittance, the rest not so much. I know, I know, Ohio State has the 60,000 smartest students known to man.  |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stewie
Oh, sorry! They have the smartest 40+K of students... the rest go to Ohio State. Do you really believe that a public school has anything over the private big-money schools that can pick and choose students?
|
By academics, what is typically meant is the kind and quality of research being done by graduate programs, not how good the gen-ed classes are for for the thousands upon thousands of undergrads.