Son- Yale Neuroscience 2010
Daughter- Princeton Classics Major 2008
Princeton grades on a curve, Yale doesn’t. Totally different schools.
I’d be curious to hear more generals and specifics about that classics major.
I tend to think that most classics departments are dead, and just focusing on minutiae and utterly failing to make the classics relevant (sort of all the things that VDH argues in Who Killed Homer?). It would be encouraging (!) to hear a rebuttal of that. It’s not JUST about working hard (though that is a good start...). It’s about working towards a rational goal in the classics department. If they are doing that at Princeton in classics, that would be VERY encouraging!