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Also, was I the only one that thought the Harvard student confusing "meet" with "meat" hilarious?
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<p>Yes. They are homophones: it's an understandable mistake. Perhaps he was thinking about what he would have for dinner tonight, and you interrupted his contemplations with nonsense.</p>
<p>A spelling error does not cause one's Harvard acceptance to be rescinded or invalidated.</p>
<p>Also, am I the only one who thinks that jmanco's incorrect use of the relative pronoun is ironic?</p>
<p>"They are homophones: it's an understandable mistake."</p>
<p>If you really want to get technical, you did not make it clear what your antecedents were, and it probably would have been more appropriate to use a semicolon instead of a colon.</p>
<p>So I think what you've figured out is that Chicago is not in your personal view of what the top 10 schools should be. I don't think anybody would take issue with that, least of all a Chicago student, if you say you're primarily interested in girls and football.</p>
<p>I don't think anybody on this forum is going to insult or deride you for considering one set of schools and not another (if anything, the people who post here a lot know a lot about their schools and about colleges in general, to a degree that probably puts your guidance counselor to shame, and if you list one set of schools you're interested in, they'll come up with 50,000 other schools just like the ones you're interested in), so why did you bother posting this thread? Are you trying to enlighten fellow prospective students that Chicago might not be the best place for them? Because, if so, I think the school does its own self-selecting quite well-- in my opinion, there's too much of a stigma on the school that's undeserved.</p>
<p>But you really can't call me a troll because 40 percent of all conversation on cc is people arguing about rankings and prestige, I was not trying to troll.</p>
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If you really want to get technical, you did not make it clear what your antecedents were, and it probably would have been more appropriate to use a semicolon instead of a colon.
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<p><78 Writing MC.</p>
<p>And, I do want to get technical. Do you know what an "antecedent" is? And, no, the purpose of a semicolon is to join two related independent clauses. I used a colon for the sake of emphasis.</p>
<p>Sharpening your "English skills" won't help you gain admission to a school half as good as UChicago: trust me.</p>
<p>Lol funny, most of the replies (like kyledavid's) are more trollish than jmanco's. I believe he is just stating his opinion, and has even backed it up, so how exactly is this trolling?</p>
<p>There's one reason, and one reason only, that the University of Chicago is a great school. It has a great faculty, one of the world's very best. One of the best in the history of the world. Everything else follows from that.</p>
<p>A lot of people don't care about that, don't care whether they're learning from the world's top scholars and thinkers, may not care all that much whether they're really learning at all. They're content to be at a school with "a good social scene" or "a great Greek scene," or one that's in "a great college town," or the one that's the fashionable flavor-of-the-month among high school gossip networks. Or the one that's "prestigious" because it's popular with scads of applicants, so it has a low acceptance rate and high median SAT scores which inflate its US News rankings out of all proportion to academic quality. Chicago doesn't give a tinker's d*mn about any of that, never has, never will, and so it appeals to a small, self-selecting group of the intellectually serious. Hardly the stuff of popularity contests, which is all US News's selectivity rating amounts to.</p>
<p>Give me a Chicago any day. </p>
<p>I don't care much about the US News rankings except insofar as they pollute the thinking of so many vulnerable youth, and their parents who ought to know better. But even US News has to acknowledge that if their rankings didn't reflect Chicago's role as one of a small handful of the world's truly universities, they'd be a laughingstock in all of academia.</p>
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Lol funny, most of the replies (like kyledavid's) are more trollish than jmanco's. I believe he is just stating his opinion, and has even backed it up, so how exactly is this trolling?
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<p>You don't know what trolling is, then--it's making bold and often offensive claims in order to get a rise out of people. If that isn't what the OP is doing, then I don't know what trolling is.</p>