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- From: anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo)
- Subject: Re: Top Ten Engineering Schools from Newsweek- NOT.
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Mechanical Engineering
- References: <154g02INNanl@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.223702.23359@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:37:02 GMT
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- In article <154g02INNanl@agate.berkeley.edu> jkonghsu@ocf.berkeley.edu (James Kong Hsu) writes:
- >Sender: U.C. Berkeley
- >Sender:
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- >Distribution: sci.engr.mech,soc.college,soc.college.grad
- >Organization: U.C. Top Ten
- >4. Michigan
- >5. Texas A&M
- >6. U.C. Berkeley
- >3. Georgia Tech
- >8. Stanford
- >9. RPI, New York
- >10. U. of Illinois
- >
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- a) what happened to the top 3 schools (I assume Georgia Tech is really #7)?
- b) is it any wonder that the person who posted this list actually goes
- to one of the schools in the top 10?
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- I think this thread has been discussed in many a newsgroup before (i.e., the
- top ten for ANYTHING), but is all this stuff of any importance to us? We've
- all seen the statistics, and we all (hell, we're reading this newsgroup :-) )
- should realize the futility of such lists, especially when culled from
- such a magazine as Newsweek. If you like small schools, will these (mostly
- big) schools make you a better engineer? Learning engineering (or anything
- else for that matter) has a lot to do with environment and other factors
- which I'm sure can't be put in a neat little list.
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- I've met 'top ten' school people before (and not just in engineering) who
- are bozos, and 'top ten' people who are brilliant. Furthermore, I'm not
- complaining that my school didn't make the list- my friends at MIT (I would
- assume this to be in the 1-3 slots) tell me that it's sometimes no great
- shakes there either (i.e., he works in a room without windows too).
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- Let's leave the lists to the fuzzy wuzzy humanities types.
-
- -A.
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