[1451] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: A new ballgame at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Belcher)
Tue Sep 16 10:48:14 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:33:34 -0000
Reply-To: jwb@space.mit.edu
From: John Belcher <jbelcher@CECI.MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <LAW10-OE43TpUaJb8bA000035f9@hotmail.com>
>> One thing we can say is this: Starting at around 1997, Marilee Jones
took
>> over as head of admissions, and Course 15 undergrad enrollment starts
>> rising. A couple of years later, Course 15 was, and is, the 2nd biggest
>> undergrad department. Why is that?
>>
>> You may say that it is because that is where the money is, so students go
>> after the money. That does not fully explain this trend, though. If
>> consulting/management is where the money is, why didn't students go after
it
>> pre-1997? Why are students going after it now after the market has
crashed?
In fact the number of course 15 majors is way down recently.
Score one for market forces.
Sorry Marilee, once again your nefarious plans did not succeed! :-)
cheers
John W. Belcher
Professor of Physics
37-695 MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge MA 02139
email: jwb@space.mit.edu
phone: 617-253-4285
url: http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www
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