My mom and dad faced identical problems in the late 70s. I would urge no simple comparisons between elite private U.S. university admissions in 2012 and public Soviet Union university admissions throughout the century.
The experience of Jews in the Soviet Union is substantially distinct from the experience of nonwhites in the contemporary United States.
Remember: If Harvard wants to, it doesn't have to admit anyone at all. There are lots of universities in America, in fact lots of best ones. There was only one MGU.
My Mom was turned town for an Ivy in the '60s because they "wanted students who would become distinguished in their field, not just get married and have babies"
Hey, I'd prefer to live, study at, or work at Oxford too, or Cambridge, but there is actually only one Harvard. The first sentence of my post is true and was responding to its parent post saying there's only one MSU.
Harvard is definitely the most prestigious university in the US, just as Oxford is definitely the most prestigious university in the UK. Please noye I said nothing anout quality of education.
In China, Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan are all in the top 5. Not as prestigious as your kid getting into HYPS, or many other foreign universities. For France there are the Grandes Ecoles like Sciences Pos or Ecole des Mines. The Sorbonne is a normal public university, of normal selectivity, with no way of attracting anything but normal academics. The German and Italian systems have no equivalent of the Grandes Ecoles. There are good departments but no good universities.
Yes there's only one Harvard, but it's utter nonsense that it's the most prestigious university on Earth! Sure Harvard's a great school, but kid, you really need to get out more.
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My mom and dad faced identical problems in the late 70s. I would urge no simple comparisons between elite private U.S. university admissions in 2012 and public Soviet Union university admissions throughout the century.
The experience of Jews in the Soviet Union is substantially distinct from the experience of nonwhites in the contemporary United States.
Remember: If Harvard wants to, it doesn't have to admit anyone at all. There are lots of universities in America, in fact lots of best ones. There was only one MGU.
My Mom was turned town for an Ivy in the '60s because they "wanted students who would become distinguished in their field, not just get married and have babies"
There's only one Harvard. It's the most prestigious undergraduate university on Earth.
Apart from Oxford and Cambridge.
Hey, I'd prefer to live, study at, or work at Oxford too, or Cambridge, but there is actually only one Harvard. The first sentence of my post is true and was responding to its parent post saying there's only one MSU.
Harvard is definitely the most prestigious university in the US, just as Oxford is definitely the most prestigious university in the UK. Please noye I said nothing anout quality of education.
Yeah, I didn't mean one was better than the other, just that any of them on your CV would look equally good.
There are probably European and Asian equivalents, (Sorbonne?) but I have no idea what they would be.
In China, Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan are all in the top 5. Not as prestigious as your kid getting into HYPS, or many other foreign universities. For France there are the Grandes Ecoles like Sciences Pos or Ecole des Mines. The Sorbonne is a normal public university, of normal selectivity, with no way of attracting anything but normal academics. The German and Italian systems have no equivalent of the Grandes Ecoles. There are good departments but no good universities.
Yes there's only one Harvard, but it's utter nonsense that it's the most prestigious university on Earth! Sure Harvard's a great school, but kid, you really need to get out more.