At what point is there a dropoff in quality of student?
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Date: May 17th, 2013 5:37 PM Author: Impressive heady address
HYP seem more jocky than intellectual in my experience
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2258703&forum_id=2#23218486)
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Date: May 17th, 2013 5:49 PM Author: Gaped filthy library rigpig
I'm a second year PhD student in Harvard Economics, did my undergrad at Berkeley. For readers unfamiliar with the inside-baseball, Berkeley is ranked somewhere in the 3-6 range, while Harvard and MIT duke it out over the 1 and 2 slots.
I was always impressed by the grad students in the Berkeley econ department, but as a group they're just not in the same league as my classmates here. The drop-off in input quality when you leave 02138/9 is pretty steep, and it must be even steeper when you look past the top 6-10. I mean this in the least arrogant way possible.
The consensus is that most of the value-added comes from interacting with your classmates, so the peer effects are dominant. In terms of teaching, I actually found the Berkeley faculty put in more effort, but the courses here are at a higher level. I can't speak to the quality of the advising elsewhere, but the dominance of the top schools self-perpetuates pretty easily. Because 2/3 of the faculty at the top 6 went to Harvard or MIT, any potential advisor I end up with has personal relationships with members of the faculty anywhere I'll be applying for a job. It's a comforting thought.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2258703&forum_id=2#23218561) |
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