I agree with your analysis, Dave. Most accurate! The cost of any private university / college is high and I am glad I went to Emory on an academic scholarship / student loan / work on weekends and in the summer.
I remember well going to BSU conventions with students coming from all over Georgia. The folks from UGA / Georgia Southern and others (except Georgia Tech) came with tennis rackets and a party spirit. Us Emory folk came with books and assignments for Monday which required reading and writing over that weekend of BSU fun.
You can say what you please, but my Emory education exacted a price and higher level of intelligence to achieve. It was as I said above---
not taught what to think, but how to!Sandy---I totally disagree with your take on conservative schools. I was on the campus of SEBTS and visited classes after the Patterson Presidency became real. They had one professor telling students that using contraception was equal to abortion----and they were naive enough to buy into it. The term "Secular Humanism" was liberally applied to the theories of Freud and anything progressive
ad nauseum!
Their BS degree from the SE College and the current Seminiary is true BS!
I think the MDiv stands from "Master of Division" in any small church foolish enough to go to them for a student pastor.
If you doubt my word, I can give you the names of several churches who went through hell with blind trust of the old SEBTS-type student pastor. Now they get a Crusader with a new Constitution and By-laws hidden in his suit pocket which can make him into the next Dictator of their church. He tells them what they want to hear and it turns out to be a total lie within a year!!! Too much pain and suffering has resulted in many churches now going to Duke / Campbell / BTSR for the kind of student pastor they used to get out of SEBTS.
Don't try to convince me "the changes are for the better" because it is simply
NOT SO!!!!