HC Is Undergraduate Only

Colleges and Universities A-Z College of the Holy Cross
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<p>Research universities are no place for undergraduates.</p>

<p>Professors at big research universities are often more interested in doing research and working with graduate students than teaching your child because their prestige (and their university’s) depends on publishing. So they tend to host huge lectures and then foist undergrads off on teaching assistants who may or may not be supervised. “At Harvard, we ran into students who said they never had a professor who had enough of a relationship with them to write a recommendation for grad school,” Dreifus says. How to avoid that? Go to a school that’s completely dedicated to teaching, like a four-year liberal arts college with little to no research. “Look for seminars where 15 to 20 people sit around a table,” Dreifus says. “The big question we want parents to ask: Is this a place that’s about developing my child’s mind?”</p>

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<p>This is one of the main reasons why I loved and eventually chose Holy Cross. I plan on interning at a lab and doing research there over the summer. I want to learn from professors who’s main focus is teaching.</p>

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<p>To each his own, but my son looked at mainly LAC’s ( he didn’t go to HC, but daughter is)because he wanted to not be a number. He also was ADD and was able to not take meds because he was in a small room and not a huge lecture hall. His professors knew him, recs were easy to get and personal and although an LAC can get small, he loved it.</p>