<p>Unregistered, a quibble, but I know one of the few male grads of Smith...he has Ph.D. from the graduate Social Work program.</p>
<p>That said, Omniscient, your screen name has failed you, please take another. Smith may not be known as well as, say, Stanford or Yale among the general population but among the well-educated class that tends to do things like hiring, yeah, Smith is pretty well known.</p>
<p>"Believe me.....most people do not even know Smith....Smith has to rely heavily upon its alumni to get jobs"</p>
<p>Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.</p>
<p>Martin Luthur King, Jr</p>
<p>I am sorry if you guys are upset with what I said, but it is true. Smith is a good school, but come on, stop kidding yourselves.</p>
<p>omniscient- i've never heard of uconn before. I only know of it because practically every state has a university of such and such. I've known of the seven sisters my whole life, especially smith. I definitely can't say that about uconn. Smith first came to my attention not only by my parents talking about top colleges but by the simpsons, gilmore girls, and sex and the city. </p>
<p>Also, I've seen your other posts. You just go onto different college boards and tell people undecided between uconn and random places that they should go to uconn. I understand you are proud of your school and I have absolutely no problem with that. I just don't understand why you would come on the Smith board. You should have known you were headed for disaster.</p>
<p>headed for disaster?....hahaha....I love you guys....your hilarious!</p>
<p>Omniscient1- Considering that you called other posters nerds, losers, geek and other names and even declared that you are wiser than the others in your previous posts when people disagree with you, I think you should just stay out of here. Smith board has some of the wisest members on cc(TD, mini, MWFN,RLT..to name a few), who give constructive advice to prospective students. Unlike you, they are not bias. Note that most agreed that ECW doesn't seem like a good fit at Smith.</p>
<p>I think saying that Smithies needs its alumnae connection to find jobs just shows how ignorant you are. But, thanks for recognising our amazing alumni network ;)</p>
<p>“the simpsons, gilmore girls, and sex and the city.”</p>
<p>Let's not forget the character Christina Yang in Gray’s Anatomy went to Smith and then Stanford med. Nuff said ;)</p>
<p>haha, okay i've never seen gray's anatomy whereas the simpsons was my favorite show during freshman year of hs, gilmore girls was my favorite during sophomore, and now sex and the city.</p>
<p>The conservative artsy desperately wanting to get married character in "Sex and the City" went to Smith (sorry, forget her name, haven't seen many of them) and the Republican lawyer, Ainsley, working in the Democratic White House in "West Wing" went to Smith. However, these are fictional people and all of you are real and I wish you all much better.</p>
<p>Charolette ;)</p>
<p>I think Omniscient is going to UConn, so there's a bias there. </p>
<p>I'm sure UConn is a fine school, but it's known to the outside world through basketball -- or athletics in general -- not academics. Smith, although it has its sports teams, is not known for athletics, and instead is known for academics and leadership. Not that the Princeton Review is everything, but UConn gets a 72 for academics, while Smith gets a 98. (As a side note, my D has lined up a job for this summer doing research at a different university; when the hiring professor learned that she went to Smith, he immediately asked for an interview. Her ability to converse on the topic of research got her the position. Nuff said.) </p>
<p>The above does <em>not</em> mean that ECW should go to Smith. Fit is far more important than prestige and ranked academics. Yes, if she wanted to get the best education possible, no matter where it was, then she should go to Smith out of the available options. However, the undergraduate experience encompasses more than just academics. The student has to feel comfortable so she can excel. I -- and I suspect the others here -- sense that ECW is not interested in rigorous academics as much as she is the mix of academics and a certain kind of campus life. She cannot get that at Smith.</p>
<p>Clark can not compete on the level of UConn in terms of presence in the business world:</p>
<p>Business Program: Top 4% in World (over 2,000 business programs)</p>
<p>Professors (Most Notable):
-#1 Real Estate Research Professor in World (Dr. CF Sirmans)
-Top 3 Professors in Management in the World (Dr. Michael Lubatkin)</p>
<p>Programs:
-#5 Real Estate Program in US (US News and World Report)
-Top 10 Management Departments in World (American Management Association)
-Top 30 Management Informations Systems programs in the US</p>
<p>Recruiting:
-One of the 30 to 40 target schools by the Big 4 accounting firms
-One of the 25 Target Schools by UBS and Deutsche Bank
-One of the 35 Target Schools by GE for Leadership Programs (Pretty much the best corporate programs out there)</p>
<p>I can go on and on, but you get the point. I guess you can say we are well known, lol. ;-)</p>
<p>We kick the $hit out of Smith when it comes to getting students jobs in business. We do it where it counts. Plus Smith is an all girls school....haha, good luck with that!</p>
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<p>Clark or Smith? </p>
<p><-#1 Real Estate Research Professor in World (Dr. CF Sirmans)></p>
<p>Thank God I'm not paying Smith tuition for this kind of professor.</p>
<p>Smith is a <em>liberal arts</em> school, not a pre-professional school. For this reason, it doesn't even have an undergraduate business major (nor do the other top LACs and most of the Ivies). I'm going to show my educational snobbery here: business is essentially a non-academic subject. You can learn it, and you can teach it, but it does not teach you how to think critically. </p>
<p>With the "girls" comment, I sense a major troll maneuver, and so I won't engage you further on this.</p>
<p>I don't understand why you are comparing UConn's business program to Smith, a LAC. If that is the sort of critical thinking that UConn had taught you, I sincerely feel sorry for you.</p>
<p>hahaha, good luck with your liberal arts educations.....ugh</p>
<p>Yes, numbers of undergrad business degrees explains the number of empty suits one encounters in the business world. Wharton is probably the only exception I'd care to make. It's no accident that most MBA programs want to see something <em>other</em> than business as an undergrad major.</p>
<p>I would never wish to be a business major. Yes I'll probably go into something like investment banking (i want that kickass apartment in nyc and i want to pay back all my student loans quickly) but I would never do that in college. In my opinion business is something one can't learn in school. It can only be learned through experience.</p>
<p>Omniscient1 - You really need to get off of this Smith forum. But, if you are still participating:
Larger percentage of CEO's come from LAC's than from business programs or universities. Why? Because they are true thinkers and communicators - both of which companies need and want.</p>
<p>Cont'd: we do not need more Enron-types. We need honest, high-ethics people. As the CEO of Sara Lee foods said of her alma mater,"You won't find an Enron exec coming out of Augustana College."</p>