<p>Was it? I am looking forward to working in NYC someday. I just hear it is best to move quickly while walking through the avenues. :) Just wear your Nikes and you should acclimate finely.</p>
<p>Edit: I meant....."just fine." lol</p>
<p>Well, the OP was about there being a whole lot of schools "just as good" as the Ivies, and that it is better to consider the eight schools in the Ivy League as individual schools rather just a club of the top eight schools, and that people need to look at other schools. There is a guy in my office who believes in conspiracy theories and thinks that the people who were in the Skull and Crossbones fraternity at Yale run the world. If you have to be in this frat in order to run the world and the frat is at Yale, then you might think about that. Just wait till the 2006 USNWR rankings come out in August.</p>
<p>ALSO... Why wasn't Spiderman on the list???? I think Spidey is better than Batman. Batman has the cool outfit and the best car, but Spiderman is able to score with a hot redhead even without a car, and he has a sense of humor. Besides, Batman is always being helped by Robin (not that there is anything wrong with that).</p>
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When I wrote that, I was really trying to come up with some hot young girl and I could not think of anybody.
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And you couldn't come up with Dakota Fanning?</p>
<p>Duke and Stanford offer a balance of top-rate academics, alumni-school spirit, great weather and beautiful facilities that the Ivies can't touch. Dartmouth and Princeton have the best school spirit of the 8 due to undergraduate mission. Among LAC's, Williams and Amherst are tops but at the next level-Davidson, Holy Cross, and Colgate have solid academics and very strong alumni /schol spirit.</p>
<p>You're ranking William & Mary below Berkeley, Georgetown, Northwestern, Pomona, Smith and Vassar? Come on. W&M is 16th in national selectivity (US News statistic) and has the 3rd highest SATs in the South.</p>
<p>There is no ranking between the schools listed. There was a problem with the OP where it was not made clear that the groupings were only there because of the perceived differences in prestige between the schools. In my opinion, every school listed is for all practical purposes just as good as any other extremely selective school. </p>
<p>One thing that was bothering me on CC was that everyone kept saying "the Ivies" as if that was the phrase that meant the most. In today's market, the USNWR rankings are the measure of a school's prestige. However, I am also against the USNWR report rankings since I think it is just stupid to try to rank schools so strictly. It is like comparing apples and oranges. Besides which, applicants need to consider their "fit" and not just the prestige factor.</p>
<p>Actually I think you missed the fact that the list is in alphabetical order and so W&M comes at the end.</p>
<p>Let's approach things from a "prestige" standpoint, then. William & Mary is the second oldest US college/university, has the oldest US law school, oldest US honor code, birthplace of Phi Beta Kappa and alma mater of 5 presidents. How can any other school compare to that kind of prestige? Besides, William & Mary has higher SAT scores than Brown or Cornell.</p>
<p>"You're ranking William & Mary below Berkeley, Georgetown, Northwestern, Pomona, Smith and Vassar? Come on. W&M is 16th in national selectivity (US News statistic) and has the 3rd highest SATs in the South."</p>
<p>Well, indeed I would say that William and Mary is below those fine universities. I am sure William and Mary is a great university, but in terms of prestige and quality of student body, I'd doubt that the predominantly southern student body would match up to the the student bodies of the more "globalized" student body. Your claim that age makes W&M great is laughable. I'm sure if one thing is older than the other, it MUST be better.</p>
<p>NOW is WOW!
history doesn't and shouldn't count for much</p>
<p>She's a decent actor, and I think she can kinda sing. Britney can neither act nor sing.</p>
<p>wait is lindsay even voluptous anymore?
shes like a stick.
ahhh poor child</p>
<p>I am developing a theory that all threads eventually devolve into discussions of primal behavior. You start a thread on the role of the United Nations in the economic development of third-world nations, and eventually it ends like about whether or not you can pick-up girls in bars by pretending to be French. (Answer: No, but Italian works.)</p>
<p>Lohan, before she lost the weight, made me think of a young Ann Margret. Spears was always average except for her ability to lip-sync to music while doing aerobic routines.</p>
<p>wait i was joking because i am a girl and clarification: i do not want to pick up girls at bars.</p>
<p>but does it seem to anyone else like lohan's wieght dropped mainly our of her boobs?</p>