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We send someone to the top program, MIT or Chicago every year, which should be our primary aim as a teaching school. Archaea's next predictable response..."Talk to me when BYU becomes Ivy League."
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But yeah, BYU does very well at shipping their students off to other prestigious universities. We're a good feeder school. I think the regret is that we are not ourselves a prestigious university. We're shipping out great talent to other places instead of bringing in great talent from other places.
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My home teacher is a recent Chicago law grad and a patent lawye. He did computer science as an undergrad at the Y. The best part of Chicago law is that they mix economic analysis with EVERY COURSE. That is where the law and economics field was founded.
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I did like the fact that Chicago has a smaller class size; 200 students per class, compared to NYU's 450. Mostly, I liked the feel of the school. I walked around the campus of the university and thought to myself, "So THIS is what a real university looks like." Ivy covered walls, vaunted halls and gothic architecture-- it just feels like you're going to a world-class institution. The guys at NYU would point out that NYU is as good as any school out there, and so I might as well go live in New York City. They're probably right. But while NYU is as good as anybody else, Chicago is like nobody else. Plus, Notre Dame is less than an hour away by train. I've got a buddy who says he'll get me a ticket.
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So BYU doesn't have a name in much of anything and with its student body and potential for endowment it should. We need more Ira Fultons before that will happen. Bateman did more to stifle true economic freedom than anybody since Ernie Wilkinson with his famous student spy network. Samuelson hasn't done anything to foster it either. BYU is failing in becoming a great university which is its rightful place in society. And it's due to the parochial and provincial attitude of its administrators. You may be pleased as BYU lauds itself, but I am not. What's wrong with alumnae wanting BYU to be perceived on par with the Ivy League. It's not likely to happen in my lifetime or in yours, but what's wrong with that as a goal? I get the idea Samuelson's goal is to make it on par with UVSC.
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Becoming ivy league is a waste of resources. That's not what we're designed to do. You can use a spoon to dig a tunnel from England to France if you want. We will always be known as a brand name feeder to the best grad programs. There hasn't been censorship, except in the religion department, or maybe in some humanities department college raters don't care about. But it's irrelevant anyway; there are so many obstacles to uncovering truth in the humanities, academic freedom isn't' gonna make a difference. You the take the lid off censorship in order to get better professors, and you'll lose your identity like every other religious university in this country has.
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It's risen but it's fallen recently. Nice spin, Mr. Mullah. If we're not a top ten in all departments we choose to field, what are we doing having such a department?
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