Harvard vs. Texas A&M: Which shares your values?

Orlando Sentinel ^ | October 12, 2001 | Peter A. Brown

[fishtank]

You know, "hoyas", I like MOST people from the Northeast.

Does it bother you that President George H. W. Bush (the Bad-Ass who kicked Iraq back) placed HIS presidential library in COLLEGE STATION?????

[1L]

I think UT is pretty much superior.

BS. t.u. and A&M are ranked about the same in both undergraduate and graduate business and engineering. t.u. might have a slight edge in liberal arts, and it DOES have an edge in its honors program. And t.u. has a slight edge in law schools. Of course, A&M doesn't have one, but...

A&M has medical and vet schools on campus, which t.u. doesn't have. Also, anything Ag goes A&M by default. I think A&M generally is seen as having the edge in things like education (i.e. preparing teachers and administrators), sports training, management, and kineseology, and several professional scientific fields like meteorology. At this point, both schools are seen as top rate and there isn't much difference unless you are looking at a program only one has (like graduate library science, t.u. only).

[Robert A Cook PE]

I know of NO "classic" college (or university) with ANY kind of national reputation for liberal arts (such as Yale, Brown, Penn, Penn State, Michigan, (any CA school), etc.) that I would trust my children to attend and NOT get polutted with mindless, politcally corrupt, socialism/communism/me-worldism.

ONE private school up north (Hillsdale) stands alone in the nation (world ?) as actually defending capitalism and "real-world" decision-making. that's IT.

In engineering, physics, computer programming, and a few of the technical programs, your children will get "less" incorrect information than in the mush of liberal arts....but in general, the "better" the reputation (among the liberal writers who evaluate colleges!) a college has, the WORSE it do for your child.

At the engineering schools at least, the "honest" students serve as a form of reality check on the idiots and communists teaching their lies. It doesn't change grade punishment from the liberals for writing the truth (as happened to my daughter) - but it helps. In a "classic" liberal arts college, where your child may be the "only" honest person in the room of 150 nitwits- her/his ideas don't stand a chance.

And, in a few years, NOBODY (other than academia) will caer where your child has graduated.