Re: ivy education

2002-07-23 Thread Doug Henwood
joanna bujes wrote: >So...following up on the Yale men thread...is the education given at >the ivies worth it? I thought so. I had some very good professors, and one's fellow students are an education in themselves. Classes were very lively - much more so than the University of Virginia, wher

RE: Re: ivy education

2002-07-23 Thread Eric Nilsson
Doug H writes, > . . . one's fellow students are an education in > themselves. Classes were very lively - I wonder, however, whether this is _still_ true for the elite colleges. The increased competition now to get into such schools and increased attention to "doing the right things" during high

Re: RE: Re: ivy education

2002-07-23 Thread Justin Schwartz
>Doug H writes, > > . . . one's fellow students are an education in > > themselves. Classes were very lively - > >I wonder, however, whether this is _still_ true for the elite colleges. The >increased competition now to get into such schools and increased attention >to "doing the right things" dur

Re: ivy education

2002-07-23 Thread Justin Schwartz
> >So...following up on the Yale men thread...is the education given at the >ivies worth it? I ask because a former lover who went to Princeton was very >bitter about that aspect too. I also ask because I have a half-baked idea >to send my daughter (now 8) to Vassar or one of the other women's iv

ivy education

2002-07-23 Thread joanna bujes
So...following up on the Yale men thread...is the education given at the ivies worth it? I ask because a former lover who went to Princeton was very bitter about that aspect too. I also ask because I have a half-baked idea to send my daughter (now 8) to Vassar or one of the other women's ivies.