<p>1sokkermom-- haven't accounted for the multiple-post factor at all. Would take more analysis than I'm capable of, & these numbers are raw. Hard to take away much from this exercise, as most have mentioned, other than to enjoy the Harvard is/will always be #1 theme!</p>
<p>I'm thinking simba deserves a Lifetime Achievement Coward for post #36, or maybe it should be Lifetime Achievement in a Supporting Role with the big cahuna going to PapaChicken. Although maybe PapaChicken's award should be something more substantial - Nobel Prize in Economics? or perhaps the Nobel Committee would entertain a new category, Nobel for Ranking Rubrics?</p>
<p>When I published "TheDad's College Rankings" as a spoof to try to derail all the rankings obsessions in the Search & Selection forum last year, I had about a four-step process for producing the ranks. The last step was: "If Harvard is not #1, move Harvard to #1 and move other schools down accordingly. You will have no credibility unless Harvard is #1."</p>
<p>I balanced this out by moving Washington and Lee five to ten spots lower than it would have been otherwise.</p>
<p>It's funny though. I remember now that what I really liked about Princeton was that the place really doesn't have a rivalry with anyone in particular. I mean, sure, if H or Y show up to play some kind of sport I guess there was a flurry, but there's nothing there like Stanford-Cal or Harvard-Yale. We just sort of went about our days and studied a lot and then went to parties on the weekend. I wonder - is there a t-shirt at Princeton now that targets Harvard? What does it say?</p>
<p>jmmom,"Lifetime Achievement Coward" ????</p>
<p>well I am coward and will take any award I can get. :)</p>
<p>ALumother, yes there is a t-shirt now that says, "Byerly was never here".</p>
<p>Simba, Coward=Oh heck I forget but it's the writing awards on the Parents Cafe...</p>
<p>Hmm. Have to think about that t-shirt idea...</p>
<p>they have "Harvard Sucks" t-shirts in orange outlined in black lettering. but seriously, who doesnt?</p>
<p>I think we have forgotten the MIT tee-shirts:</p>
<p>Harvard, for those that can't get in to MIT</p>
<p>Not sure they still sell these but they were available in the past in the bookstore.</p>
<p>Couldn't find any tee-shirts like those described for sale in the online college bookstores, but I found some interesting articles on the whole issue......</p>
<p>Excerpt from the 1st link below:
"T-Shirts
And "safetyschool.org" must bring us, of course, to the great tradition of coming up with somewhat clever, always crude slogans and throwing them on a T-shirt to make a boatload of money. Harvard classics include "Yale: Harvard for Dummies," "We'll Kick Your Ass Today/And Fire Your Ass Tomorrow." This year, the Eli slogans seem to have risen to a new level of sexually provocative genius, with "Harvard Sucks, but Yale Sucks Better," "Ver-i-TAS my salad." The classics "Huck Farvard" and "Yale rules, Harvard sucks, and Princeton doesn't matter," are as perennial as tailgates that dominate pregame activity. Then there are the more creative. Two recent T-shirt crazes included references to Ted Kaczynski -- who graduated from Harvard in 1962 -- (You'd have to be crazy to go to Harvard) and the cult online character Strong Bad. And both schools, of course, sell T-shirts poking fun at each other's mascots."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24251%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24251</a>
<a href="http://www.harvardsucks.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.harvardsucks.org/</a>
<a href="http://overstated.net/04/04/07-harvard-sucks%5B/url%5D">http://overstated.net/04/04/07-harvard-sucks</a>
<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503945%5B/url%5D">http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503945</a></p>
<p>simba - <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56155%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56155</a></p>
<p>no, no simba - don't just take any award you can get. Hold out for the coveted College Confidential Writing Award (Coward); that capital C makes all the difference. For these awards, Alumother is having a custom made gown! <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=758304&highlight=gown#post758304%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=758304&highlight=gown#post758304</a>
You will have to start working on your acceptance speech.</p>
<p>Oh gosh, I forgot my gown. I must go speak to my seamstress:)</p>
<p>^^ Understandable as your are probably pre-occupied with your graduation ensemble. Will that be fashioned from saved report cards/edited writing assignments/D's outgrown athletic uniforms?</p>
<p>There are shirts at Brown Bookstore that have Harvard in big letters (appearing to be Harvard tee shirts, which I had to do a double take while walking by the window display) but in small letters, it says "for those who could not get into Brown".</p>
<p>Although the town in which my undergraduate school resides is probably one of the hardest to spell and most often mislocated college towns around. Hint: It's also billed as the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase. Null Hint: It's not New Orleans. </p>
<p>Seriously, interesting list. I might mention that my interest in a forum not associated with my daughter's choice is often prompted by scandal or controversy at the school involved in the forum. :-) As we all know, that lonely school at the top never has any of that. ;-) .</p>
<p>I hope everybody had a great, safe Memorial Day. How 'bout that Indy 500?</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Bill</p>
<p>Will be scraping the satin off the old toe shoes for the grad outfit. Must get started.</p>
<p>I also suspect that the of number of posts on specific colleges = too much time on student/alum hands as well as over-zealous college marketing agents adding their in-put under the guise of a parent or student. The marketing of colleges these days - in glossies, on web-sites such as this - is nauseating. It's not that the quality of their academics or facilities has improved...it's all just spin.</p>