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by PDad » Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:36 pm

exD1dad wrote:I consider all the UC schools I listed "good" Pdad & if you look at national rankings so do do a lot of other people including experts as rankings change but each of these UC's are top 20 in several different areas & overall too.

I'm glad you think so. I'd add UC Irvine to your list for a number of majors.

OK Pdad so did you even bother reading the average stat's on what I posted? SAT scores (average of course) are 1900 to 2100 for UC's I listed & all the schools have average GPA's over 4.0. Therefore SAT's + GPA (that'd be the "pathway " you were referring to) it's very simple. How many softball players really meet those?

I read the average stats you posted - did you look at the more detailed ones I posted? They break each stat down into ranges and for each range show the numbers admitted and applied. They show the schools passed on thousands of kids with 4.0+ GPAs in favor of kids with lower GPAs. Some of the sub-4.0 are athletes getting special consideration and some could be majors that are less competitive, but I don't think that accounts for all of them. UCSB passed on 4K from the 4.0+ range and took 8k from lower GPA ranges instead.

Lets face it UC scores for normal kids are the same as athletes for Ivy & Patriot League.

Do you have anything to back that up?

What proof do you have that the UCs aren't employing some "holistic" criteria? The most and very selective schools are employing them to differentiate applicants with exceptional credentials. Cal and UCLA both passed on 22-23k from the 4.0+ range and 2/3 of the applicants that scored in the top SAT/ACT ranges (700+/31+). I seriously doubt they only look at GPA + SAT/ACT.
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by as the world turns » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:24 am

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by fastpitchdad05 » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:38 pm



Holy thread resurrection, Batman! :lol:
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by jonriv » Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:05 pm

Dartmouth was one of the inspirations for the movie Animal House

When I was in college, the drinking age change from 19 to 21( I of course was 20 :(. ). They then banned all alcohol from the dorms(not well enforced). Prior to that you would buy your kegs from student services
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by exD1dad » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:22 pm

Years ago I read something very similar about binge drinking etc at Dartmouth.

Wasn't Animal House based upon Dartmouth too?
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by PDad » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:29 am

Fraternities are under a lot more scrutiny than they used to be a la Animal House.

BTW, I heard someplace that Animal House was based on what occurred at Dartmouth.
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by jonriv » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:49 pm

From wikopedia
The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine. The stories were based on Miller's experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College. Other influences on the film came from Ramis's experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and producer Ivan Reitman's experiences at Delta Upsilon at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.


Miller's nickname at Dartmouth was "Pinto" and he had several short stories in national lampoon magazine about "Pinto the Pledge"

Being in the middle of nowhere, Dartmouth has had a very strong party scene and party reputaion. Study hard and party harder. The more urban Ivies(Brown, Columbia, harvard etc) look down on dartmouth and Cornell as being "Hick" schools- to each his own
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by Dugout Dad » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:15 pm

If you go to the Dartmouth bookstore, their number one selling sweatshirt is the one that has just COLLEGE on it. It is the one John Belushi's character wore in the movie. DD had an offer from them, but turned them down. Was not her cup of tea.

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by jonriv » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:35 am

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by as the world turns » Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:11 pm

I have picked on the East Coast "we think we all awesome" Colleges enough. Now for the UC's. Check this out from UC Davis. The liberal agenda letting in the wrong students in all the UC's.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/03/pro-palestinian-students-heckle-cal-davis-opponents-with-cries-allahu-akbar/
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