Scholarship table
Sounds like Illinois. And Glow and I will be joining the fleeing ranks as soon as we can get someone to buy our house.
That's really going to make your drive to MUBB games extreme...
Nope. And we'll have an announcement about that shortly.
That WSJ article shows exactly what is wrong with using admit rate as a measure of quality.
Two Fascinating articles from this morning's WSJ attached. One about the increasing practice of schools using standardized test data to increase applicants, the other about Occidental College's mission to increase enrollment of minority and first generation students, which they're doing on a much larger scale than MU apparently. The test data article mostly references elite schools, but there is some relevancy for MU there too. It was in the top 5 most popular articles among WSJ subs this am. I know there was another thread about this issue, but since this thread is closer to the top and addresses similar issues, I decided to post here. The article about Occidental College in LA is interesting since MU has a very similar mission. WSJ is behind a sub wall but since I'm a subscriber, I've attached both articles as PDF's. Enjoy.
$100,000 tuition comingUniv of Chicago’s approach to make themselves elitehttps://apple.news/AYxhpUEC_SsmPCqbM3-26cQ
Whoa. You guys would be shocked to know what I paid back in the day. 2 great years in Hyde Park learning from multiple Nobel laureates. It was a privilege.
Obama was your professor?(Relax, its a joke, not politics.)
No way would U of C let Obama teach economics. (Relax, it's a joke, not politics)
Ha, I'm relaxed. No, my professors won real Nobels, not politically charged Peace Prizes. I think my count is now 3-4 separate individuals. For you old timers, no I didn't study under Uncle Milton. He was retired by then but still on campus. In fact, he lived in the next building over from me. But there were numerous first generation fathers of modern finance including Gene Fama, Merton Miller, Jim Laurie, Bob Hamada and Myron Scholes. Brilliant, brilliant men. And all absolutely super guys.And long ago replaced by fancy and expensive real estate both in Hyde Park and downtown, the B-school (as it was called long before Sloan was in the picture) was nothing more than 4 classrooms, a lounge, an administrative office and a few dozen professor's offices on the SE main quad on campus. The space still exists today, largely unused, except for the occasional generic classroom application. As had been said elsewhere, incredible minds didn't always need zillion dollar facilities. But we live in a different time now, I guess.
🙄🙄🙄The Peace Prize was an original Nobel. The Prize in economics is not an original Nobel. It was established 50 years ago. I mean they are all “real” but my guess is that one gets disparaged based on the political leanings of the recipients.
And long ago replaced by fancy and expensive real estate both in Hyde Park and downtown, the B-school (as it was called long before Sloan was in the picture) was nothing more than 4 classrooms, a lounge, an administrative office and a couple dozen professor's offices on the SE main quad on campus. The space still exists today, largely unused, except for the occasional generic classroom application. As had been said elsewhere, incredible minds didn't always need zillion dollar facilities. But we live in a different time now, I guess.
I was unaware of that. Interesting. And yes, the ones for various hard sciences (including economics) based on real research are wholly different from any that have been politicized over the years. I don't think anyone can argue that that fate hasn't occurred but that's another topic entirely.
The economics prize is not an "actual" Nobel prize. It is not decided by the Nobel committee, the Nobel family, and many Swedes want the Nobel name associated with it removed. It was created as a Economics prize "dedicated to the memory of Alfred Nobel".
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.