<p>I apologize if I offended you Kebree. Sometimes, Byerly should be put in his place though, as his insults are uninstigated, unconstructive, and offensive. He is on some sort of religious, statistics laden crusade to prove to himself at the expense of other institutions that Harvard is the best. He has to put down other universities due to his own insecurities - and not because Harvard needs the defending. I agree, it is the best University in the world.</p>
<p>Well, Byerly does seem to do his share of "place-putting," but he often does it with stats, not nursing home snipes or so-called "personal failure" digs. If you find an interesting stat, that's great. Post it. It was your method of place-putting that concerned me (and probably several other people who read it...).</p>
<p>As a Princeton ED and Yale RD applicant, I find it quite amusing to watch the Yalies' reactions to Byerly's stat posts. I've learned a lot about Yale (and more about a few potential/current/former Elis) because of the responses he gets, so the more power to him. =)</p>
<p>Hey, Byerly---try the Princeton board for a bit. I'd like to see some of the dirt (or stats, I mean) on my [potential] school.</p>
<p>Yale is a fine school, "bulldog" which I have never "put down." </p>
<p>You, however, are an occasionally embarassing representative, as Kebree has noted. and should restrain your vocabularly in the future. Harvard, as you grudgingly concede, hardly needs "defending" and nobody who knows me has ever refrerred to me as "insecure"! </p>
<p>I suggest that you should ratchet down the rhetoric a bit - particularly the gratuitous personal insults - and realize that Yale doesn't need a shrill and hostile defense, either.</p>
<p>Byerly, while what you post is all factual, and you have never "put down" Yale outright, a good portion of your posts on this board are undercover jabs at Yale. Take for instance your sarcastic remarks about the increase in Pakistani applicants that you posted here and on hugs and kisses. I wish you would stop saying that you have never put yale down--You have, covertly.</p>
<p>Mr. B does this at most of the Ivies, but predominately YP. He usually does produce facts, but he does so, quite often, in a slanted manner. He probes for weaknesses and opportunities to present H in a favorable light. In so doing, the facts he selects are usually the worst available for that particular school. Because he often works with twisted and sometimes "unreliable facts" his conclusions are often off base. Also, he is so blinded by loyalty to his beloved H that he refuses to recognize whole sets of facts. Otherwise he doesn't seem to be so bad. He's just loyal to a fault. (He does hang in there. I admire that. I have seen him take a verbal beating at multible sites).</p>
<h2>That doesn't sound like your first, unedited, response to me:</h2>
<p>Ouch!</p>
<h2>You are a bright and fearsome attacker!</h2>
<p>[luckily CC emailed me the first one so I could copy it here]</p>
<p>Kebree, if you read the posts, you'll see he attacked ME out of the blue, after I tried to end the devolution into Princeton bashing. I wasn't arguing statistics, nor was his attack.</p>
<p>This thread has become personal and petty. Nothing new has come up about Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. In fact, the first two schools should not even be talked about here except in passing. It's the Yale board. Not the compare-Yale-to-other-schools-without-respite board. </p>
<p>This thread is useless and should be locked.</p>
<p>Byerly stop editing your posts. It's an underhanded and spineless thing to do.. stand by your words, this isn't 1984.. u can't just change the past.</p>
<p>EDIT: I don't usually participate in ur arguments over whether Harvard or Yale is better because I find them frivolous. However, I have noticed on many ocassions that you have changed your words AFTEr a poster has replied to them and proved them wrong. And then you feign ignorance. I would suggest adding "EDIT", like I have done here in order to show when you change your mind.</p>
<p>I second your motion!</p>
<p>(And to DavidRune: I reserve the right to edit my post for the allowable 20 minute period, to make sure that they say what I want them to say, and to reduce the volume of the frequent typos, etc.</p>
<p>Seldom does my editing have anything to do with what anyone else has said, because they are usually firing away when I am in the midst of fiddling with my cosmetic changes.</p>
<p>Its "underhanded" and "spineless" to make sure your posts say what you want them to say, and that frequent typos are minimized? I don't think so. </p>
<p>Ease up on the conspiracy theories, boy!)</p>
<p>EDIT: Don't be silly, boy. nobody has ever, that I can recall, "replied to [my posts] and proved them wrong." Nor I have I ever participated in any "arguments over whether Harvard or Yale is better." That is something that only Yalies do!</p>
<p>Great. Let's agree to stop posting on this thread.</p>
<p>honestly, first of all im really begin to doubt byerly is an adult harvard alumni....harvard should have more class than this and an ADULT? seems hard to believe that he ever grew up let alone went to harvard</p>
<p>Drop the thread, please. (Again.)</p>
<p>In defense of Bye, who needs no defense, he has his facts in order. He spins them totally, and ocaissionally briliantly. Unlike many posters, his posts inavariably have a basis in fact and evidence. That's more than I can say for a lot of people on this board (and once in a while myself, I admit.)</p>
<p>Don't be silly, boy. nobody has ever, that I can recall, "replied to [my posts] and proved them wrong." Nor I have I ever participated in any "arguments over whether Harvard or Yale is better." That is something that only Yalies do!</p>
<p>Umm... so is condescending to people by calling them "boy" considered cool at the age of 46? And did you notice that less than 24 hours ago I corrected your post fairly and then you went back to edit it and make it look like you never said what I had responded to, in a sad effort to save some face? </p>
<p>When Yalies are discussing Yale or New Haven, you instantly compare it to Harvard or Cambridge. You say that only Yalies compare Harvard to Yale, but you spend your entire day comparing Yale to Harvard. Whether high school kids want to say you spin "ocaissionally briliantly", I doubt you'd impress anyone in your own age group (or anyone who has graduated from any college).</p>
<p>You call Yalies "trolls" on their own board, but look at the stats. This all being said, I find your obsession with Yale quite charming and CC wouldn't be as interesting without you. </p>
<p>[Posts by Yale.edu on Harvard University board: 0!]
[Posts by Byerly on Yale University board: 200? 300?!]</p>
<p>I don't understand why ppl here are responding to basic trolling. Shun the troll, and the troll often goes away. Don't engage the troll in dialogue, that is what feeds him. This one certainly thrives on engagement. The level of engagement is freakish, so leave it be and don't respond.</p>
<p>In defense of Bye, who needs no defense, he has his facts in order.</p>
<p>Mensa, thought you'd be interested to see another example of "Byerly's facts in order" that are actually lies. --><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=31884&page=1&pp=20%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=31884&page=1&pp=20</a></p>
<p>Last four or five posts on that page and on to the next.</p>