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Metacelsus's avatar

As a current Harvard PhD student I agree. Seen from the inside, Harvard isn't about "veritas", it's about power.

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One minor comment: the calculus test comparison is meaningless. First-semester calculus at Harvard serves the very weakest students mathematically, who have to take it as part of their general education requirements. Its existence is barely relevant to the STEM majors. Almost every hard sciences major starts in freshman year at several levels ahead of the course you linked to. Many of the math majors learned the material in that course early in high school--if not earlier. I don't know what the situation at SIU Edwardsville is but you'd have to check that it is comparable before making the comparison. And I'm fairly confident the proportion of students who mastered calculus in high school in the general college population does not match the proportion at Harvard.

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