<p>oh ok thanks</p>
<p>Unlike the WSJ and other rankings that only considered the portion of each graduating class which matriculated at 10 or 12 elite colleges and universities, we examined the college placement of the entire graduating class at 4 year US based colleges and universities.
Exeter does well with the top third of each class, but not so well with the rest. Exeter did not finish in the top ten.
Please note that all 25 schools ranked received the methodology and preliminary ratings during a verification and comment period. Not even one school objected to the methodology. Again, this study focused only on college placement. Thank you for your comments.
Exeter is still number 3 in terms of endowment behind a Hawaiin Foundation and Milton Hershey School.</p>
<p>icy9ff8 can you please list the top 15 using your method</p>
<p>Oh please! Now it's WBTY? Why don't you spell it out, huh? </p>
<p>Widmer-Bennett-Tingley-Youmans </p>
<p>Ha. Even the name has Exeter at #3. T for Tingley. He's a former head of school at Exeter. And Deerfield is #1. Which is no surprise because Eric W is for Widmer was a contemporary of Tingley at...you guessed it: Deerfield! Respectable fellows, but also quite loyal to their respective schools.</p>
<p>And then there's B for Bennett -- as in former Education Secretary Bill Bennett -- who I'm now assuming has some connection to St. Paul's, the #2 school. And I have absolutely no idea who Y for Youmans is. The only Youmans I know pitched for the Expos and had the same coke problems as his cousin, Dwight Gooden. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to learn that WBTY is a coke-fueled product. I mean...really...can there be a ranking of schools that is more biased and predictable than WBTY?</p>
<p>At least I have the integrity to be up front that I get a commission if people use my code to buy the GZM software. But it's not like I have a real stake in the research. It's just that it's a featured product on my EZCommerce sell-from-home internet shopping website and I've tried it out myself and it works!</p>
<p>WBTY is about as groundbreaking and innovative as a list that any poster here could spout off from the top of his head. Even you, fun is fun. WBTY is well accepted all right. Well accepted by the Ten Schools Admissions Organization members that commissioned the WBTY Indices and -- lo and behold! -- has all 10 of those schools in its top 10. Hmmmmm...I smell a rat.</p>
<p>wow d'yer informative .. but why were you posting at 3 in the morning?</p>
<p>Not satisfied with his personal attacks on my good name and sterling character, D'yer has now stooped to slandering the reputations of some of America's finest educators and public servants.</p>
<p>It's especially distubing to see him go after Widmer, who, for totally altrusitic reasons, is now running the King's Academy in Jordan. I'm pretty sure I read that he was doing it for like a doller. </p>
<p>And Bill Bennet. Here's a guy who hasn't let a little thing like various addictions prevent him from writing book after book on subjects of great interest to some people.</p>
<p>D'yer can smell all the rats he wants (it is a free country, for now), but that doesn't change the fact that the hooha he's trying to foist on an unsuspecting world is dangerous and could lead to further market instability,
not to mention the continued erosion of pubic confidence in our elected leaders.</p>
<p>fun is fun, isn't that a little dramatic?</p>
<p>Fine, stick your head in the sand and disregard the pernicious forces which are at war with the American Republic and all that it stands for.</p>
<p>When our cities are a smoldering ruin, and you don't have power, electricity or lights, not to mention running water or a flushable toilet, you'll say to yourself, "Why oh why didn't I, anonymous27, take a stand when I could have against entities like GZM and it's minion D'yer"?</p>
<p>First: it's does not take an apostrophe when it is the possessive, just when it's a contraction for "it is." So, don't get all uppity.</p>
<p>Second: I happen to believe that patriotism COMPELS people to speak out, even in dissent, for the country they love and the way of life that they love. You, "sir," keep trying to shout me down. You contend that my voice -- and voices like mine -- are insidious because they erode confidence in the established order. NAY! It is the gag you wish to impose on the Truth that I speak that will ultimately bring about the demise of all that is good and all that is right, and true, and just about our great nation.</p>
<p>A better world for our children will not be spawned from make-believe eggs (faux roe) you insist on. Instead of perpetuating a myth of excellence, the future will only be as good as you pretend the present is by realists like myself who do the dirty work of picking through the caviar and separating the Beluga from the lumpfish.</p>
<p>I know you like to discredit the Bunkel Index because it allows for non-traditional factors that give high scores to the likes of MAPL schools and such. I know that you prefer WBTY Indices that favor the elitist schools. And I know that it's disturbingly radical for you -- and William Buckley -- to allow a system to gain a foothold that breaks down the walls of establishment BS education.</p>
<p>I'll concede that you're right in noting that there are larger issues at play. We're talking about class warfare and it's time we come right out and admit that you're arguing the establishment, pro-authority position and you can't fathom -- or tolerate -- access to quality BS opportunities to people who can buy some (relatively) cheap software (versus the high falutin' educational consultants available only to the wealthiest Americans). Nor can you abide so many Americans look at the data and realize that they can obtain excellent BS educations outside of New England!</p>
<p>Well, the fact that I won't suffer your elitist WBTY Indices and ranking systems is not because I wish to trample down America. No, I am trying to make these resources available because I love my country and I love my fellow Americans and I know that, with my help, this can be AND WILL BE a better nation for all!</p>
<p>hey, all i'm saying is you were being dramatic, as you continue to be now, saying that a minor comment on a College Discussion message board will one day lead to me not having "power, electricity, lights, and running water." Not to mention, a "flushable toilet". haha that's just stupid</p>
<p>If I had a doller for everytime someone corrected my grammar, I wouldn't be on this second rate website arguing with someone who is clearly a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. Were you that squirelly looking guy holding a petition in front of the Morristown P.O. last weekend?</p>
<p>Instead, with all that dinero, I'd be teaching history or Spanglish and coaching squash at a fine BS like Mercersburg or Hun or Peddie.</p>
<p>Incidentally, the parentheses in "sir," above, should end prior to the comma.</p>
<p>Two can play at that game. Ha!</p>
<p>Since all you are interested in is deflecting and making ad hominem attacks, I propose that we take a poll among all CC users as to which BS ranking system is the best and most useful.</p>
<p>GZM (Bunkel-based) versus WBTY (TSAO-based)</p>
<p>Oh, and why are schools "like Mercersburg or Hun or Peddie" regarded by you as "fine," and not "excellent" or some other superlative? I can almost hear the ice coursing through your veins as you grudgingly pushed yourself to use any sort of accolade for those schools. "Fine" was the best you could do, huh? Well, at least you didn't go with "somewhat acceptable." I'll give you that much.</p>
<p>I concede this point, you're right. What I should have said was, " at a super- duper BS like Mercersburg, Hun or Peddie".</p>
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<p>Yes, the sarcasm you easily conjure up for those schools is telling indeed. Thanks for evading the challenge to put ranking systems up for a vote. If we had to rank them, you'd know that GZM would be in the top 3 and the WBTY Indices wouldn't even make the top 15.</p>
<p>No sarcasm -- I yield to no man in my admiration for the MAPL schools.
Although really, Boarding School and New England are synonymous.</p>
<p>Put up your little poll. The WBTY Indices have weathered petty attacks before and (putting aside the Kennedy/Biden incident in '97) consistently shined as by far the best overall system.</p>
<p>Well, this shouldn't be a binary shoot-out between "mine" and "yours."</p>
<p>Everyone should rank all of the various systems, don't you think?</p>
<p>Fine. Bring it.</p>
<p>oooh, I feel like I am watching an Oscar Wilde play or something. I would say, "boys, get a room," but I am logging on now ONLY to read the next installment. </p>
<p>I love the internet.</p>
<p>Momtoan Undecided--I wholeheartedly agree. This exchange is hilarious.</p>
<p>wait, I thought fun is fun and d'yer were joking..?</p>