<p>^^^ Yet again, Go Singing Hoosiers!</p>
<p>St. Olaf has the Limestones (male) and has added a female group called Agnes, I believe.</p>
<p>MIT logs are amazing</p>
<p>dartmouth and midd are pretty good too.</p>
<p>a capella is very popular at nearly every school</p>
<p>Northwestern- Freshmen Fifteen and others, Villanova</p>
<p>are coed groups on the upswing?</p>
<p>The famous Tufts Beelzlebubs! Arguably the best if not among the best all-male collegiate acapella groups in the nation. In my humble opinion the Harvard acapella was mediocre, as was MIT. The dartmouth decibelles were terrible when they performed here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bubs.com%5B/url%5D">www.bubs.com</a></p>
<p>co-ed and all-women groups do appear to be on the increase. . .at least at the LACs I know.</p>
<p>LOL. There's only one way to settle this.</p>
<p>There must be a rankings for A Capella groups.</p>
<p>UNC's is great...</p>
<p>wonderful idea chowdy.....should we commission US News?</p>
<p>"There must be a rankings for A Capella groups." There is, <a href="http://www.casa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=92%5B/url%5D">http://www.casa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=92</a></p>
<p>BTW - Best Male Collegiate Album
Winner: Dartmouth College Aires Impaired</p>
<p>I can't believe no one has mentioned the Whiffenpoofs yet. They're arguably the most well known acapella group.</p>
<p>I've never heard of them. </p>
<p>A good measure of quality is to see which groups are selected on BOCA, Best of College Acapella. Just search for the site on google.</p>
<p>"wonderful idea chowdy.....should we commission US News?"</p>
<p>I don't think so... then they'd include irrelevant factors like the group not meeting the number of predicted performance dates, or practices having more than 50 people.</p>
<p>found these lists...might be dated
mens:
Amherst-Zumbyes
Brown-Jaborwockes
Columbia-Kingsmen
Harvard-Krokodiloes
Princeton-Tiger Tones
Stanford-Fleet Street Singers
Tufts-Beelzebubs
Berkeley-Men's Octet
U Penn-Penn Six- 5000
Yale-Whiffenpoofs</p>
<p>womens:
Columbia-Metrotones
Colgate-Swinging Gates
Duke-Out of the Blue
Harvard-Radcliffe Pitches
Mount Holyoke- V-8's
Smith-Notables
Tufts-Jackson Jills
Berkeley-Golden Overtones
UNC-Loreleis
Vassar-Measure For Measure
Wellesley-Tupelos</p>
<p>University of Oregon has a great one. "Oregon on the Rocks".</p>
<p>My post has nothing to do with which are "best". </p>
<p>Just wanted to point out that a capella is VERY big at Brown. There are about fifteen groups, some female, some male, some coed. By the way, the pirate group is not all male as my D's roomie who is female is in it. I have heard many of these groups and find most to be outstanding. Some are Jabberwocks, Bear Necessities and Brown Derbies. We have many of their CD's and my teens LOVE them. One of my teens who was a senior in HS last year, choreographed a tap dance to one of the Brown a capella group's CD at our annual dance show here in our region. It went over really well. Now she is going to audition for a coed a capella at her college, in part from being influenced by how great the a capella is at Brown. She is attending NYU/Tisch. She heard them on her first night at college. They are call N'Harmonics. Check out the groups at Brown. </p>
<p>Susan
(PS, I went to Tufts and actually the Beezelbubs and the Jackson Jills were considered excellent in my time way back when)</p>
<p>Have any experienced any hook factor (albeit perhaps small) in having A Capella participation as a main EC?</p>
<p><a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Eootb/%5B/url%5D">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ootb/</a></p>
<p>Oxford's Out of the Blue</p>