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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Jun 22 2005, 11:20 PM
Okay I didn't go to the UofC and I don't have a degree in business or anything of the sort but it sounds like you are saying "my GPA at MRC was 3.3 and it sunk bo below 3 at the UofC so that faculty sucks".
Are you?
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More or less.
I didn't start doing drugs or dating loose women when U of C hit after two years at MRC.
Or have any more (actually had less) extracirricular stuff going on either.
Class size went from 30 to 50-75+.
Teaching time went down about 4 hours a week.
-MRC had labs/tutorials every class, U of C, didn't.
-U of C started 4 days later, ended a week earlier, had 2 extra days for reading breaks.
Non exsistent teacher hours.
MRC had tests, and quizzes and assignments throughout the semester, worth varying amounts of marks.
U of C, no matter what the class: a 40% midterm, a project or 1 quiz worth 10-15, then a final of 45-50%.
Overall guidenece and ease of ability to answer questions for registration, wait lists etc, a lot less hassle at MRC.
I'd have stayed at MRC if I could've gotten a degree there.
Sure, maybe its my learning style where I need to be challenged and keep up on things on an ongoing basis, and it was right out of HS, so it made for an easy transition to MRC with class size.
But at the time, many of my buddies went to U of C right out of HS and struggled big time. I did too, two years later.
Compared to MRC, U of C is much more impersonal with instructors who don't really care either way, making the classes more like a stockyard, moving people in, and moving them out rather then making it their point to make sure that you get the material, not just hope that you pick it up when you read the text book that night. It was a noticeable difference. And that was going into 3rd year, after those 200+ person classes were done and over with at U of C.
Not to get too sappy, but MRC was a lot more place to be and to learn, as opposed to the sterile environment and experience at the Faculty of Management at the U of C. And all my friends were at the U of C too.
Plus, Faculty of Management never did get too many glowing external reviews back in the day (I was there 8 years ago now), and I still don't think they do.
Just my opinion, but MRC is the way to go if your area of concentration has a transfer program to U of C.