<p>Your “top fifty” list is rather odd. If you look at where faculty members at Harvard, Yale and Princeton got their undergraduate degrees, the names you see are Reed, Beloit, Oberlin, Occidental, Whitman, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Haverford, Kenyon, Grinnell, Union, Colby, Bowdoin, Colgate and Wesleyan. </p>
<p>Mega-size research universities are good at many things, but undergraduate education is not one of them.</p>