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The problem isn't not CUNY its the NYC high schools which are not good that is causing CUNY to look bad.
I know how you can fix that. Raise the standards for admission, build dorms, and hire a top marketing/education consultancy firm in India/China to try to attract overseas students. That'll fill the coffers, boost the SAT score stats as well as graduation rates. Then use the foreign students' funds to give full scholarships to native top performers.
I know how you can fix that. Raise the standards for admission, build dorms, and hire a top marketing/education consultancy firm in India/China to try to attract overseas students. That'll fill the coffers, boost the SAT score stats as well as graduation rates. Then use the foreign students' funds to give full scholarships to native top performers.
CUNY has begun to do some of those reforms, but everything has to be done with an eye to that protests will likely come form those who feel CUNY is becoming elitist.
I actually went to that program for a while before I couldn't go to class anymore because I was working long hours at work. I remember during orientation, the director of the program specifically said that they're not looking to admit students that ask stupid questions. I was like "WOW". That program is like 80% foreign students, at least a couple of years ago, by foreign as in F1 visa status not local immigrants. There were kids from IIT(Indian Institute of Technology), Peking University, some US schools like NYU, Berkeley, there were also a few MBAs from top US schools and some PHDs in Math and Physics taking the program when I went. I think anything less than a perfect score on the math GRE at that time put you into the bottom 20% of the barrel. That program is one of the more intense MFE programs in the country and they emphasize on application more than theory. I had a coworker at the time that did his MFE at Carnegie Mellon and I asked if he had to code up all the linear algebraic functions from scratch to solve the two dimensional heat diffusion equation and he told me that his professors gave them the libraries. So that program is no joke.
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CUNY has begun to do some of those reforms, but everything has to be done with an eye to that protests will likely come form those who feel CUNY is becoming elitist.
Yes it's definitely a sensitive issue nowadays. You need to gradually raise the bar at least on the undergrad level. But glad that they're taking steps to improve.
I actually went to that program for a while before I couldn't go to class anymore because I was working long hours at work. I remember during orientation, the director of the program specifically said that they're not looking to admit students that ask stupid questions. I was like "WOW". That program is like 80% foreign students, at least a couple of years ago, by foreign as in F1 visa status not local immigrants. There were kids from IIT(Indian Institute of Technology), Peking University, some US schools like NYU, Berkeley, there were also a few MBAs from top US schools and some PHDs in Math and Physics taking the program when I went. I think anything less than a perfect score on the math GRE at that time put you into the bottom 20% of the barrel. That program is one of the more intense MFE programs in the country and they emphasize on application more than theory. I had a coworker at the time that did his MFE at Carnegie Mellon and I asked if he had to code up all the linear algebraic functions from scratch to solve the two dimensional heat diffusion equation and he told me that his professors gave them the libraries. So that program is no joke.
I'm supposed to be getting ready for bed, but your post got me thinking so .....
OMG, a six percent admission rate for Baruch MFE? One of the top five at the Rotman Trading????
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