<p>Laughable.</p>
<p>Reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld…. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>yes, TOKYO U, very, very, very difficult to gain enterance to. much like beautiful woman. </p>
<p>many youngsters have hari kari after rejection letter. many, many. there was mass suicide in tokyo not long ago. many youngsters ate cyanide brownies wrapped in poison eel after rejections letter!</p>
<p>U TORONTO- yes, my cousin go there. he was very disapointed it got 18 in global ranking. i shoed him my ranking scheme and he agrees totally. he doesnt like to get stabbed or robbed like americans!!!!!</p>
<p>Yeah, I've seen the English section of Tokyo U's exam. It's close to the level of the SAT's CR/W sections, so it must be brutal for Japanese students. :P</p>
<p>And how is UCSF, UCLA, and UMichigan rated higher than UCB?? Berkeley is much better.</p>
<p>Doonut, please, it's "SHOT or robbed like Americans."</p>
<p>And I used to be in the American Navy, and lived in Hawaii near a little bay called Pearl Harbor. Perhaps you've heard of it? So it's not like the Americans have a monopoly on unnecessary violence. And even Detroit is safer than Nanking was about, oh, 69 years ago.</p>
<p>And if I wanted to buy you a plate of poison eel, exactly where would I send the check?</p>
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<p>speak for yourself.</p>
<p>ah yes! in the experience of the japanese, we estimate that it take roughly 15 min of conversation with american before this topic arises! dont worry we used to it. this is just how americans are. you never forget this when it happens to you, but when families in middle east do not forgive you for bombing their houses you all SO SURPRISED! why the arabs hate us? scratching your heads. hahahahhahahaha! think about it!</p>
<p>yes, acceptance to TOKYO U is much like that of a beautiful woman. i once knew a girl named keiko. so beautiful, so lovely, so fair, so enchanting. i would lay my life on the train tracks for her soul! i wrote her many letters, WHAT HAPPENED? she fell in love with american cause he talked so of pearl harbor and sang song "i think im turning japanese, i think im turning japanese, i really think so" what that? dumb.</p>
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<p>please do... hurry, there comes one now.</p>
<p>why you want me to die? i never hurt you? unless you dont want me to die and that was to be a good joke, or as you refer in america "come back"</p>
<p>in that case, im very disappointed? especially with a name like 'the<em>prestige" i would expect a more laugh-inducing response.....perhaps you were not permitted to enter your full name due to character restrictions! it maybe woudl read more approriately "not intelligent enough to enter 'the</em>presige'ous american schools" so you leave 'the_prestige' for brevity! i see now....make more sense! more effiecient. i like it!</p>
<p>My wife Keiko says get over it. And don't miss the 11:29 from Sapporo.</p>
<p>... or it could be a double entendre...</p>
<p>keiko husband die trying to be the first man to swim pacific ocean! she laugh afterwards and say.....in american, no one takes geography! no one knows about that! he thought ocean a 35-40 min swim max! shark ate him. hahahahahhaahha we laugh so. </p>
<p>keiko pregnant now. with my cousin's child. hes from toronto.</p>
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<p>don't come running to us when your cousin's kid has TourGuide's sense of humor.</p>
<p>I made it across the Pacific. It just took a few months longer than I expected. And I cramped up in Hawaii and had to drive the rest of the way.</p>
<p>And that was how you met Keiko ...</p>
<p>Could everyone please stop laughing and tell me what's wrong with Skidmore? Really, be candid.</p>
<p>Come on, tell me. Is it full of shallow people? Is it a college of pop culture? Is it 'My Super Sweet Sixteen" at the college level? What's laughable about it?</p>
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<li><p>Reminds too many people of "skidmark."</p></li>
<li><p>Newsweek included it in its list of 25 "New Ivies" a short time ago. Newsweek lumped it in with places like Emory, Notre Dame, Michigan, Virginia, Bowdoin, Vanderbilt, Tufts, NYU, and Colgate, all of whom are widely considered much better than Skidmore. The inclusion of Skidmore seemed to reek of some higher-up in Newsweek trying to help someone connected with Skidmore by shoving it past literally dozens of more prestigious schools, as if nobody would notice that it didn't quite belong on the list of 25.</p></li>
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<p>so funny how princeton is way down..ucla beat princeton? hahaha omgahhh</p>
<p>i'll grant that ucla beating out princeton is a bit of a head-scratcher but i also think it should be noted that ucla has been incredibly underrated for much too long. we do horribly in the usnews/world report rankings (which i consider *<strong><em>) and do much better in this ranking and the two rankings from which this ranking comes. people don't realize the quality of the work going on here and the people doing it (as a small example, our math department was awarded "best math department" this year by somebody i remember sounding legit and a member of the faculty won the fields medal. o, and we discovered AIDS here). Whether or not you believe the rankings you can't ignore that ucla does extremely well in at least three legit ranking methods even if they don't with usnews; that's gotta say something.
Regardless, good academics, unbeatable location, hot *</em></strong>*es, and unbelievably good athletics (we just won our one hundreth div I ncaa championship) are all old hat at ucla. go bruins</p>