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Best, most prestigious school in the world?
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Caltech is a good possibility. It focuses on subjects (math, engineering, physics) that are generally seen as much harder or more impressive than your typical Ivy League school's liberal arts bent.Originally Posted by Mountains
The acceptance rate is lower, the quantitative subjects are regarded more highly, but it does not have the prestige of Harvard.
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btw, what about that tech school in india that's supposedly harder to get into (and better) than caltech (which i thought was one of the hardest schools to get into)?Originally Posted by cheessus
IIT - Indian Institute of Technology
There is also a business / mgt version called IIM.
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The school with the lowest acceptance rate in the USA is the Curtis Institue of Music in Philadelphia (I attended); 4%, twice as difficult to get into as Harvard and Yale.Originally Posted by musicguy
Speaking of music schools in Pennsylvania, what is the full scholarship offered by a school in Pennsylvania, for one of the world's hardest to master instruments?
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+1Originally Posted by audiophilia
Expensive?
1 out of 64 applicants at my UK school in my year. Not sure what that ratio is.
It's free
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Originally Posted by MetroStyles
*bows*
Speaking of music schools in Pennsylvania, what is the full scholarship offered by a school in Pennsylvania, for one of the world's hardest to master instruments?Originally Posted by Piobaire
Is this a trick question?
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Not in the least. Here, I'll give you the school, you figure out the instrument: Carnegie Mellon.Originally Posted by Piobaire
One of these?
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One of these?Originally Posted by musicguy
Nope. I forgot too, the current student is the only single student majoring in this in the US:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1147...N=wsjie/6month
Oh, btw, Alasdair Gillies is the professor and arguably the world's greatest living piper.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2034805.shtml
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Nope. I forgot too, the current student is the only single student majoring in this in the US:Originally Posted by Piobaire
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1147...N=wsjie/6month
Oh, btw, Alasdair Gillies is the professor and arguably the world's greatest living piper.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2034805.shtml
Bagpipes, lol!
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Nope. I forgot too, the current student is the only single student majoring in this in the US: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1147...N=wsjie/6month Oh, btw, Alasdair Gillies is the professor and arguably the world's greatest living piper. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2034805.shtmlOriginally Posted by Piobaire
When I was very young, I was with my father at a bar (I want to say it was going for the Irish thing, really), and they had a piper come in and play. It was LOUD in that little bar, but I was pretty captivated. It was awesome, and the last time I heard a piper in person. ~ H
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When I was very young, I was with my father at a bar (I want to say it was going for the Irish thing, really), and they had a piper come in and play. It was LOUD in that little bar, but I was pretty captivated. It was awesome, and the last time I heard a piper in person.Originally Posted by Huntsman
~ H
I won't be bringing mine this spring. Too expensive and delicate to bang around...plus I haven't played much in the last 2 years.
Pipes are loud! Instrument of War and all that
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