<p>To the OP:</p>
<p>Why did you even post this?
You seem like an arrogant brat to me.
The aforementioned evidence is a corroborating one.</p>
<p>And to answer your question, * no *. I am happy for them. </p>
<p>One question: Are you a ■■■■■?</p>
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Point of bias is a major factor in this issue.
SAT contains five succinct answer choices with ** one ** specific answer.
Hence, the College Board rarely gets sued.
Seeing that you are a ‘personal’ friend of the OP, you are influenced by other factors.
Are you influenced by outside factors when you are taking the SAT?
Do you have a strong urge to vilify the Cuban Monkey Crisis of 1785?
Are you interested in the production of Tzango-Sango gummy bears?</p>
<p>(You cannot say yes, because my examples were all fictional).</p>
<p>Secondly, your case is an inherently different one. You know the poster personally. This indicates a high level of bias.</p>
<p>In Statistics, we use the law of large numbers to determine this in an efficacious manner.
The law of large numbers is a significant factor here because many posters have agreed upon the fact that the OP is an arrogant poster.</p>
<p>Thus, one poster with personal affiliations to the OP cannot influence the consensus of the discussion.
In other words, you are an outlier.</p>
<p>I hope this case thoroughly explains your rude behavior and a pathetic attempt to condemn other posters.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to celebrate a college acceptance. It’s another thing, however, to be extremely shocked or surprised when one gets into his/her safety school, acting as though it was a reach school for him/her. This was the point of the post - that people should know full well what sorts of schools they are applying to, and get a good estimate of their chances based on those schools’ acceptance rates (which can be easily obtainable via a quick Google search). It wasn’t meant to ridicule anyone; it was just a rant. That seemed pretty obvious to me.</p>
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<p>Clever reasoning. But you set up your own trap, son.
I firmly believe that a rant serves as an excellent indicator of arrogance.</p>
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- Disgusting * title.</p>
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<p>You too.</p>
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<p>No.</p>
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I have textual evidence to support my argument (your entire rant).
What is your evidence?</p>
<p>^I definitely have to agree with Joz here. ANYTHING can happen, even in the case of the girl who got accepted to a for-profit school. Maybe this girl just wants to get into ANY college, and by getting this acceptance letter albeit being guaranteed, God has literally answered her prayers.</p>
<p>Stop looking at it as a sign of ignorance and start looking at underlying (or in Statistics, LURKING) variables that may cause some of these posters to say such things. Not everyone reads CC and is as knowledgeable about the college admission process as us, so just getting that acceptance letter could be potentially life-changing for them even though it might be a lower-tier college.</p>
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This may be the dumbest support (which reads like complete gibberish too) for an argument I’ve ever read on CC. Did you seriously just try to prove that because two people know each other, one cannot contribute in an argument/discussion involving the other…?</p>
<p>But to address the OP, it’s safe to assume that most people applying to for-profit schools have neither the drive nor the academics that would merit their considering even remotely difficult schools. For them, any college is fine. It follows that they would have little to no knowledge regarding the college admissions process, which may come as a shock to you (and other well-informed applicants such as CCers).</p>
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I applaud anyone who applies to colleges.
This shows demonstrated interest and a passion to learn.</p>
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Yes, indeed. We are a selective group. Bad choice of SRS.</p>
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<p>Dumb?
A careful reasoning is a * dumb * support?</p>
<p>No, many factors are involved (law of large numbers, the standardization of SAT).</p>
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<p>Right.</p>
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<p>Um, I don’t think it’s a lot to ask for that people know the acceptance rates of the colleges they’re applying to…</p>
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<p>xD</p>
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First rule of statistics is not to make any generalizations.
You are a walking hypocrisy.</p>
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Are you a professional statistician?
If not, why are you making generalizations and ranting about how I elicited my reasoning?</p>
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Careful reasoning…? You just used statistical analysis to try and argue that one cannot contribute to a discussion/argument involving someone that said person knows personally. And exactly what does the law of large numbers or standardization of the SAT have to do with refuting Fledgling’s points? Seriously, I don’t even agree with Fledgling’s original post and I still find your post completely irrelevant.</p>
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When did this devolve into a statistical survey? I’m pretty sure that this entire thread has concerned what the OP’s intentions were and whether or not he/she sounded like an ass in making this thread. Show me where I was at all hypocritical in my post.
I don’t need to be a professional statistician to tell you that your points are not relevant to this discussion.</p>
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<p>It did, hence my post. Thanks for understanding the point of it all. :)</p>
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I think this is because you are not capable enough to follow my logic.</p>
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No, more factors are involved.
In order to address multiple issues, I used my knowledge.</p>
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I am sorry if you are confused. But it is your problem if you cannot understand the law of large numbers.</p>
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You have indicated your point, yes.</p>
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<p>Lollllllllllll.</p>
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It’s quite hard to follow the logic of an illogical argument.
Here’s a quote from you verbatim “Thus, one poster with personal affiliations to the OP cannot influence the consensus of the discussion.”. Pretty sure that’s an attempt to argue that someone with personal connections to the OP cannot contribute to an argument/discussion.
I suggest you read a little slower so as to actually understand my question. I did not ask what the law of large numbers is, I asked how it is relevant to the discussion at hand. Care to elaborate?</p>
<p>How do you know that they didn’t research the schools they applied to? Did you follow their whole admissions process? </p>
<p>An acceptance is exciting, no matter where it is. Why would you apply to a school if you didn’t want to be accepted? They have as much a right to celebrate as you or anyone else.</p>
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I am extremely annoyed by your generalizations.
** Statistics≠surveys. **</p>
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I usually do not say this. But, you are an * arrant * fool.
Your current knowledge is very limited, which hinders your ability to participate in an online discussion. * he/she sounded like an ass in making this thread *: You are overanalyzing a ramification of a topic, which undermines your logical reasoning skills.</p>
<p>I am wasting my valuable time with an arrant fool.</p>