u/CommunicationIcy2195

Isn’t a sole focus on obtaining a STEM degree and rejecting a liberal arts core a blatant example of anti intellectualism?

If someone’s perception of college is simply a place where they can obtain a STEM degree and a liberal arts core is seen as a distraction, unnecessary, and a knock on a school, is that not just textbook unreflective instrumentalism? And by consequence is the prevalence of that mindset not detrimental to the social landscape in college?

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u/CommunicationIcy2195 — 8 days ago

I’ve seen people on the Binghamton sub and some other subs talk about how prestigious and impressive Binghamton (BU) is to people, how competitive it is to get in, how it’s much better than Miami, Syracuse, Fordham, George Washington, Stony Brook, Penn state, Rutgers etc, how it’s a public Ivy, how it’s comparable to ivies in academics and rigor, how the school has elite placement and so on. Can anyone confirm if employers are really that impressed when they see BU over most schools?

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u/CommunicationIcy2195 — 15 days ago

Assuming two universities exactly the same but school 1 has an engineering and nursing school and school 2 doesn’t, what would the difference in average overall sat score be between the two schools? How much higher are engineering and nursing school scores on average compared to the same university’s liberal arts college?

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u/CommunicationIcy2195 — 19 days ago

If anyone is curious what it was like when basically every school was test mandatory. Note schools with engineering, nursing, cs etc will have a slight boost over schools that do not given elevated math scores. I also did not include schools with flexible testing policies.

Auburn: 1570-1890

Babson: 1740-2010

Barnard: 1890-2180

Baylor: 1650-1970

Binghamton: 1770-2060

Boston College: 1910-2180

Boston University: 1790-2080

Brown: 2000-2310

Bucknell: 1800-2090

Cal Tech: 2210-2390

Cal Poly-SLO: 1680-1960

Carleton: 2000-2270

CMU: 1990-2280

CWRU: 1890-2190

Catholic U: 1510-1830

CUNY-Baruch: 1660-1960

CMC: 1980-2250

Colgate: 1890-2170

College of W&M: 1890-2180

Columbia U: 2090-2360

Cooper Union: 1830-2220

Cornell: 1960-2260

Dartmouth: 2040-2340

Davidson: 1840-2150

Depauw: 1600-1960

Duke: 2040-2330

Drexel: 1590-1940

Emory: 1890-2200

FSU: 1670-1920

FIU: 1590-1820

Fordham: 1740-2030

Franklin Olin: 2100-2330

GWU: 1800-2090 (caught falsifying)

Georgetown: 1980-2250

GT: 1920-2200

Grinnell: 1870-2230

Harvard: 2120-2400

Harvey Mudd: 2070-2320

Haverford: 1970-2240

Indiana U: 1570-1910

JHU: 1980-2280

Kenyon: 1860-2140

Lafayette: 1760-2060

Lehigh: 1800-2080

LMU: 1640-1940

Marquette: 1590-1910

MIT: 2120-2350

NC State: 1690-1950

Northeastern: 1940-2200

Northwestern: 2080-2320

Notre Dame: 1990-2270

Oberlin: 1920-2190

Ohio State: 1700-2040

Penn: 2050-2320

Penn State: 1600-1910

Pepperdine: 1700-2010

Pitt: 1750-2030

Pomona: 2070-2320

Princeton: 2120-2390

Purdue: 1600-1950

RPI: 1910-2210

Rice: 2040-2320

Richmond: 1810-2100

RIT: 1630-1950

Rose Hulman: 1720-2070

Rutgers NB: 1630-1980

Santa Clara: 1770-2060

Skidmore: 1700-2040

SMU: 1810-2070

Stanford: 2070-2350

Stony Brook: 1690-2000

Swarthmore: 2030-2300

Syracuse: 1560-1900

Temple: 1500-1840

TCU: 1610-1910

Tufts: 2050-2290

Tulane: 1870-2120 (caught falsifying)

US AF: 1800-2090

US MA: 1730-2060

US Navy: 1750-2060

UC Berkeley: 1870-2240

UCLA: 1750-2160

UCSD: 1700-2050

UCSB: 1700-2060

UCF: 1600-1880

U Chicago: 2140-2370

U of Colorado: 1580-1910

UConn: 1690-1990

U of Delaware: 1630-1940

UF: 1740-2040

UGA: 1710-2000

UIUC: 1840-2120

UMD: 1780-2110

Umass: 1650-1950

U Miami: 1820-2010

U Michigan: 1890-2210

U Minnesota: 1740-2080

UNC: 1790-2100

USF: 1590-1870

USC: 1920-2230

UVA: 1870-2180

UW: 1630-2000

UW-Madison: 1740-2070

Vanderbilt: 2090-2340

Vassar: 1970-2230

Villanova: 1810-2090

VT: 1660-1980

Washington and Lee: 1960-2190

Wash U: 2120-2320

Wellesley: 1980-2270

Williams: 2020-2320

Yale: 2140-2390

Link to data: collegelists.pbworks.com/w/page/55826560/Reality%20Check%20-%20SAT%20score%20ranges%20of%20matriculants

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u/CommunicationIcy2195 — 21 days ago