Debate Teams at these universities?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey so I'm a junior that's really into speech/debate and it's something I want to continue doing in college.
Does anyone know what the debate scene is like at any of these universities?</p>

<p>Georgetown
U of Chicago
Amherst
Princeton
Williams
Harvard
Pomona
Columbia</p>

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<p>Georgetown, UChicago, and Northwestern seem to attract the top kids from the TOC/NFL Nats every year (I think Greenhill RK’s at Northwestern) so I’d say their programs are solid, especially Northwestern- given their history at CEDA Nats and the NDT.</p>

<p>For the others, I’d just check their history at NDT and CEDA Nationals if you’re looking for a Policy program:</p>

<p><a href=“National Debate Tournament Previous Winners”>http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/HistoricalLists/winners.html&lt;/a&gt; (past NDT winners)
<a href=“http://awards.cedadebate.org/past_nats_champs”>http://awards.cedadebate.org/past_nats_champs&lt;/a&gt; (past CEDA Nationals winners)</p>

<p>Here’s the APDA rankings if you’re looking into Parli: <a href=“http://www.apdaweb.org/results”>http://www.apdaweb.org/results&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Ivies (and the rest of the Northeast) tend more toward Parli from what I know.</p>

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<p>Wow thanks so much!
I’m not from the states so I had no clue that you guys had national rankings for parli XD</p>

<p>Canadian debate leans more towards worlds/bp so I hope parli is a good fit</p>

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<p>No problem. I don’t know which tournaments are considered the “big ones” (at least on the high school level, we pay a ton more attention to results from, say, the Cal Invitational than to most others) but you should be able to see a common set of teams that stands out. Most American colleges tend toward parli due to the workload (and some, like Yale, have internal parli organizations as well).</p>

<p>Given the reputation of those schools, though, I’m pretty sure they offer solid debate opportunities. All of them are known as schools that respect debate.</p>

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<p>No problem. I don’t know which tournaments are considered the “big ones” (at least on the high school level, we pay a ton more attention to results from, say, the Cal Invitational than to most others) but you should be able to see a common set of teams that stands out. Most American colleges tend toward parli due to the workload (and some, like Yale, have internal parli organizations as well).</p>

<p>Given the reputation of those schools, though, I’m pretty sure they offer solid debate opportunities. All of them are known as schools that respect debate.</p>