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Re:What American universities can learn from Germany (2016) by kharms on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:08AM (#14568515)
>I totally agree that stratification at age 10 is pretty terrible, but stratification in universities seems like a very different story.

What would it add that the choice of university and major doesn't? The math kids at MIT aren't so different from each other.

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Re:What American universities can learn from Germany (2016) by phreeza on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:31AM (#14568713)
I guess you could achieve the same effect with different majors, but in our system for example you can study majors that carry the same name, eg mechanical engineering, with a more theoretical or applied focus depending on which type of university you go to.
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