<p>yeah i know lakeside, its about 20 min away from my house, and nothing tops the philips exeter academy</p>
<p>Well, according to this wonderful list, many schools top Exeter, though I really think some of these rankings are fairly dubious--7 Ivies and 3 "random" schools from other regions, though I suppose it is indicative enough of the strength of each school. The unreported data hurts most though.</p>
<p>And not to be a bother, College, but could you rank the schools out to 25, I'm curious to see if any ISL schools rolled in a bit later.</p>
<p>15-25 are:</p>
<p>sidwell friends
hopkins school
pingry school
milton academy
choate rosemary hall
univ. of chicago lab schools
hotchkiss school
noble and greenough school
harvard-westlake school
delbarton school</p>
<p>Milton and Nobles--interesting. Thanks for flushing out the list for me.</p>
<p>Hey otis, where are you going to school next year, and if it's somewhere that is acceptable to you what are you doing in this forum trashing other schools. I find it funny that you reply to everyones post but when someone above asked you where you are going you don't respond. The way you are acting shows immaturity and certainly is unnessecary. If you don't like the school don't research it, don't write in it's forum, just let it go. All of those going to URichmond understand that it is a great school and don't need you to put everyone in here down. And if you want to read some books, it's score are similar to that of UVA. However UVA is public and very large. </p>
<p>And as for you going around calling it Rich-men thats also very immature. I don't know what kind of school you are going to but most schools prices are very similar, Richmond included. The people that go to Richmond are going there because they like it, and if you have a problem with that I think you should just get out of the forum and stop reading it, maybe spend sometime posting on your own schools forum.</p>
<p>Thanks
Danielle</p>
<p>Well, the University of Rich-Men is actually a term used in Princeton Review and Yale Daily News to describe the university. In fact, the Yale Daily News book I have (2003) has an entire section titled, "Country Club Kids, Country Club Campus". It's not that the school is expensive so much as that the student body is very well off.</p>
<p>I also don't think Otis is being as critical of the school as you might think, though I understand your reasoning as many of the comments were backhanded. I also think it's very important to realize that Richmond is a good school (but it isn't great) and its business program is very good. Looking ahead, Richmond is improving by leaps and bounds and they have the money to fuel this growth.</p>
<p>Here's to '09 though, it's going to be quite good. And Danielle, where are you from?</p>
<p>Danielle,</p>
<p>I am a bit surprised by the name calling you resorted to in your post of 06-08-2005 @ 09:03 AM [you wrote "The way you are acting shows immaturity"]. </p>
<p>Please attempt to be tolerant of individuals that do not share your opinions. </p>
<p>Please understand that reasonable people can disagree on an issue.</p>
<p>No where in any of my prior posts in this thread did I "trash" Richmond as you allege. </p>
<p>I did take issue with the statement or another poster to the effect that Richmond is a "great University". </p>
<p>Without a doubt Richmond is a fine school however it is currently ranked by US News as a Master' s University and not as a National University. </p>
<p>The Honorable Kossitan has reported that US News will soon rank Richmond as a LAC. Kossitan is not "trash" talking (your phrase) Richmond by reporting that fact. </p>
<p>In my opinion Richmond is more comparable with Colgate University (which is another fine LAC that offers Div 1 sports) than truly preeminent/ "great" Universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Princeton, Cal Teck, MIT, UPenn, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, or Northwestern, UChicago, to name just a few.</p>
<p>Is the aforementioned opinion an insult? Absolutely not. </p>
<p>When ranked against the LAC schools Richmond will rank out as a top 25 school which is not too shabby to be included with the likes of Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley College, Carleton College, Pomona College, Bowdoin, Davidson College, Haverford College, Wesleyan University, Middleburry, and others. [Would you have me believe that Richmond is a better school than Williams or Amherst?]</p>
<p>Finally please understand that I did not invent the nickname the "University of Rich-men". That nickname has long existed before this thread and I suspect will live long after this thread mercifully ends. </p>
<p>Thank you for your continued contributions to this forum.</p>
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<p>i just say i disagree with you otis, those schools you listed are excellenot schools, not just great. Richmond is a great school. A good school is like UConn or Occidental</p>
<p>so where are you going to school and why do you keep delaying an answer to that question?</p>
<p>I just think that if you don't like a school then you shouldn't sit there and tell everyone how the school they are going to isn't up to your standard. Why don't you go waste your energy in a discussion for your own school. </p>
<p>And like I said to Kossitan in private, I am aware what the nick name is, I just feel you over used it, and by doing that it feels that you gave it a negative meaning. </p>
<p>So yes, I'm done with the subject of Richmond. However I am very intrested in where you are going to school since it is not Richmond. I'd really like to know which one of those "great" schools you will be attending in the fall, so that way I can sit here and bow down to your almighty and wonder why I am only going to a "good" school.</p>
<p>Well I looked at where else you got in, is it safe to assume you are going to Brown. If that is true or no matter where you go, I wish you luck. You still should have come join us at Richmond though. </p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>Otis why are you unable to write a normal post like a normal person? There is no need to constantly cite other people, request cites, and thank people for participating on these boards. But anyway, yes you did call Richmond a bad school in your first post in this section. </p>
<p>In case you forgot you said:</p>
<p>Get real: no one, but no one at either Duke or Dartmouth considers Richmond (a/k/a "RICHmen") to be an academic peer.</p>
<p>University of Richmond is not a great college of university.</p>
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<p>Seems like an insult to me. You seem to hold some sort of a grudge against Richmond, be it either about their tuition, the affluent people who go there, or maybe you didn't get in. </p>
<p>Now, I'm not going to Richmond but I think its ridiculous that you would talk trash on the school in this school's message board on this site. </p>
<p>Where are you going to college anyway? Was your highschool on the list of the top 25?</p>
<p>I anxiously await your response.</p>
<p>college05864,</p>
<pre><code> I had hoped that a further response by me to this thread would not be necessary however the several misstatements in your post of 06-15-2005@ 11:07 AM merit my response.
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<li><p>Your statement that I called UR a "a bad school" is simply not true. </p>
<p>Please understand that expressing an opinion that something is not "great" is not equivelent to saying that somthing is "bad". [See definitions of "great": chief or preeminent over others; markedly superior in character or quality; see also definition of "bad": failing to reach an acceptable standard; inadequate or unsuited to a purpose.] </p>
<p>I expressed an opinion that UR is a "fine school".</p>
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<p>Perhaps if you reread the subject posts with an understanding of the words "great" "bad" and "fine" you will now understand that you mischaracterized my statements. </p></a></li><a fine="" job="">
<li><p>The statement in your 06-15-2005 post that you will "anxiously await" my response is pathetic. [See definition of "pathetic": having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity.]</p></li>
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<p>Perhaps, Otis, you are not as intelligent as you at least vigorously try to seem. For, if you were, you would notice that when I said, "I anxiously await your response" I was merely emulating your posts which have all been unnecessarily wordy, unnecessarily arrogant, and flat out unnecessary all together. I was only doing my best to sound as pretentious as you do. [PRETENTIOUS: self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance]</p>
<p>and I'm done responding to your posts.</p>
<p>So where DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL, OTIS? I am curious.</p>
<p>I'm extremely upset that I read through all of these posts and I still have no idea where Otis goes to school...</p>
<p>So Otis, just so you aren't distracted by any other statements made to you, where are you going to school?</p>
<p>After reading everyone's posts, I have a feeling Otis has done nothing wrong. Though he said that Richmond wasn't a "great" school, he still said that it was a "fine" and "very good" school. He just said that it wasn't as good as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, etc... which is correct.</p>
<p>You may not want to hear this but I think everyone here is insecure about going to Richmond. That's why you all are not satisfied when Otis said that though Richmond was a fine school, it wasn't a great school. Maybe some of you have regrets about going to Richmond and wish it were on the same level as some of the ivy schools? </p>
<p>If all of you truly believed that Otis was wrong and that Richmond is indeed a fantastic school, than you wouldn't be so insecure and lash out at Otis. If indeed, you believe that Richmond will give you a great education, don't worry about his statements. Go to Richmond, excel and have fun! Don't worry about other peoples' criticism. Don't let Otis get to you.</p>
<p>who are you?</p>
<p>i thought this was over, lol</p>
<p>otis. can u read? emily doesnt want to go to an ivy league school. lol. and richmond is a great school. top tier education. they can jack tuitions up to the moon. after your efc is calculated they gift aid the entire rest of the tuition. small classes, top notch faculty. better business school then most you listed. don’t post your ignorance. do your research before posting. and stop reading the dictionary.</p>
<p>You do know that you are responding to a six year old post, right?</p>
<p>give it 8 years dude! I am gonna apply to Richmond in a little over a year because it is a great university now!!!</p>