@nostalgicwisdom wrote:
Yeah, I’ve read the student websites and I’m sensing a disconnect here between the official line and the reality
I mean, it’s nice that you have Mudd there in the mix, but, do people really take engineering classes just for the heck of it? Most of the other 4Cs seem to avoid course work at Mudd at all costs. And, I beg your pardon, but, public policy analysis, education and urban studies are more common liberal arts offerings than you might think. And sports? We’re almost talking about apples and oranges here. Bowdoin doesn’t field a mixed team with Middlebury or Amherst with Wesleyan and Trinity. They would be pretty formidable teams, if they did.
Yes, 5C students have access to graduate level science courses thanks to Keck Graduate Institute. But, isn’t that restricted to seniors? And, last I looked, Keck ranked #518 in federal research dollars, according to the NSF, right below Bates which doesn’t even have a graduate school and below Middlebury in total R&D. CGU does significantly better at the non-science end, but, again we’re talking about tiny sums here, not at all what you would expect of a 6,000 student enterprise with over a thousand professors hard at work.