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Now listen to a conversation between two graduate students about the policy change.

I overheard you complaining about that new policy yesterday, Jim.

That’s right. I think it’d actually be bad for the undergrads and it’s definitely going to be bad for us graduate students.

Why should graduate students care?

Look, grad school is about seminars, small seminars with just a few students, right? And there’s a reason for that. You need small classes to get good discussions and individual attention. Put too many people in, well, it’s goodbye to all that. Plus, you know, these undergrads are smart.

They’ve got the grades, but they aren’t always prepared in terms of prior coursework. That can slow things down for us.

Okay. And you were saying it’s bad from their standpoint too?

Right. Look. You did your undergraduate work at another university, and so did I.

And that’s pretty typical in general. You do your undergraduate studies at one university and you go somewhere else for graduate school.

Grad school is an opportunity to widen your horizons, meet new people, different professors, maybe live in a new place. If undergrads stay on, they won’t get that.