<p>I <3 Middlebury</p>
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I <3 Middlebury
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<p>NOOOOOOOO! This is not a Middlebury thread dammit! XD</p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>I get really annoyed when people think my school is inferior. (I go to Michigan).
Or when they get it confused with Michigan State. That's disgusting ;)</p>
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Middlebury is ranked #5 out of all the LAC's in America. UMich is ranked #26 out of all the universities in America.
Why only measure it against public schools? It outranks most private ones.
Now, UMich definitely has programs that outrank Middlebury, and both are amazing schools in their own right, but Middlebury is ranked overall significantly higher. Not that rankings determine everything, but they're an indicator.
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<p>Why seperate LACs from other colleges/universities then? Publics and Privates have many different things that distinguish the two, just as LACs do. Why else would they have a category of rankings for publics in USNWR? Not to mention something like the top 20 are all private schools.</p>
<p>All my original post was saying was that UMich is "better in many categories", which was in reply to someone who thought that was outrageous that someone could think that. I.e. Personally, as an engineering major, I'd much rather go to UMich as it is more prestigious in my field than a school that doesn't offer my major.</p>
<p>the criteria they use to judge LACs is different from that of Universities. there are some lists that do have them combined
forbes has a lists out but most people hate it because it is different than the traditions ivies and big name universities are the best. It has gotten a lot of heat on CC</p>
<p>People judge you by your faculty/major in Canada, not the institution you attend. If you study engineering, people assume you're smart. If you study sociology, they assume you're stupid. I study economics, so people assume I'm kind of in the middle. </p>
<p>Apparently, a lot of other quasi-socialist countries use the quantitative rigor of your courses as the measure of your intellectual ability. I guess they reason that math is more pure and meritocratic, where as proficiency in literature is seen more as a function of environment, benefiting the bourgeoisie.</p>
<p>In any case, I go to McGill. Absolutely nobody in Canada is impressed; again, all anybody cares about is your major. Some people in the states are impressed. Others are so firmly anti-Canadian that they're embarrassed for me.</p>
<p>National Universities gain more popularity and are more heard of than National Universities. If you go around HS and even in businesses, you will find that more people have heard of UCLA moreso than a LAC like Davidson college even tho Davidson is probably higher ranked amongst the other LACs.</p>
<p>Something in that same vein that bothers me is when people have only heard of my school for the athletics (namely basketball) and they also have the assumption that it has 20,000 students when in reality it has 4,000. I hate those people.</p>
<p>Just tell anyone who looks down on your college to suck it. I go to NYU, which is ranked in the top 50 and I've met people who look down on it. And when they hear I'm studying Economics, they're like "Economics?! Uh...why didn't you go to Stern?" They can't comprehend the concept that I don't want 4 years of vocational training, I don't want to study Accounting or Marketing or Finance, I want to study liberal arts like Economics and International Relations, and take classes in Law, History, politics, etc. I want to go to law school, not go into i-banking...they can't wrap their heads around the idea. Shocking, I know. Why would anyone study liberal arts when they could go to B-school?</p>
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I go to NYU, which is ranked in the top 50 and I've met people who look down on it.
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<p>NYU? Seriously? People are ridiculous. Your plans seem very interesting and ambitious, forget those people.</p>
<p>I get ****ed when people assume that people who go here didn't get into Penn State, without taking into account the fact that no one would want to spend four years in BFE, Pennsylvania. Also, when people think we go to school in the middle of a warzone, which is highly exaggerated.</p>
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Well, I used to attend SUNY Plattsburgh
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<p>Did you ever have Richard H. Robbins as a professor, PlattsburghLoser? My Globalization class is using his textbook and apparently he teaches at SUNY Plattsburgh.</p>
<p>^^ No, I never had him as a professor but knew him. He does teach there.</p>
<p>Anthropology</a> Faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh - Dr. Richard Robbins</p>
<p>Very nice guy.</p>
<p>i go to the best school in my surrounding region, but many people look down on my major... i still don't know how to deal with those people... =/</p>