<p>bearcats, reply to my PM's, please. :)</p>
<p>Well, I think the definitive answer is easily accessible and there's really little room for debate. You're just trying to stir up trouble, fun is fun, when this is easily resolved. Here are the winners of those rivalries according to the GZM Boarding School (Headmaster) rankings. You know...the ones that any loser with half a brain can find on Drudge without any help:</p>
<p>Because rankings can be deceptive -- when only small differences might make the difference between 1 and 7 and large differences between 7 and 10 (for example), I have dug a little bit further and I am providing you with the raw scores -- the Bunkel Index -- and then the so-called "winner" of each rivalry:</p>
<p>St. George's (5886.7) vs. Middlesex (6122.3) = Middlesex by 235.6</p>
<p>Choate (6376.1) vs. Taft (5264.0) = Choate, by 1,112.1</p>
<p>Deerfield (6940.2) vs. Hotchkiss (6,302.9) = Deerfield by 637.3 </p>
<p>Avon Old Farms (2,545.3) vs. Salisbury (3,003.4) vs. Trinity-Pawling (2,877.0) = Salisbury by 126.4 and 458.1</p>
<p>Hill (4.084.5) vs. Lawrenceville (5,922.6) = Lawrenceville by 1,834.1</p>
<p>Blair (5,305.5) vs. Peddie (4,979.9) = Blair by 325.6</p>
<p>St. Paul's (7,032.3) vs. Groton (6,115.9) = St. Paul's by 916.4...but if you remove the 8th grade weighted figures, Groton scores 7,109.8, giving them a negligible 77.5 advantage. However, the fact of the matter is Groton has an 8th grade and you can't remove the 8th grade from the campus so why should you remove its impact from the Bunkel Index figures? Right?</p>
<p>Loomis (4,788.1) vs. Kent (4,247.8) = Loomis-Chafee by 540.3</p>
<p>Andover (7,543.2) vs. Exeter (6,877.2) = Andover by 666 even</p>
<p>Ohhh...I love that decimal place precision. If the numbers are that precise , they must be true!</p>
<p>D'yer - clear your PMs because I'm sure you'll get a few asking where they can find the GMZ rankings and the Bunkel Index!</p>
<p>Good, Choate wins. :)</p>
<p>Certainly Middlesex is Middlesex........ and Duke is Duke</p>
<p>What?!?!? Exeter's not the best school? I'm transferring immediately.</p>
<p>Thanks for this info, D'yer. It is really helpful. People think prep schools are not susceptible to a coolly analytical ... um... analysis, but you have shown once again that they in fact are. If anyone still needs to be convinced, they should just see what short work the Bunkel Index (tm) as modified, makes of the following comparisons:</p>
<p>skinny jeans vs. flares
peach vs. blueberry cobbler
girl babies vs. boy babies
Methodists vs. Catholics
mint chocolate chip vs. pralines 'n' cream
Jessica Biel vs. Jessica Alba
Beethoven's Appassionata vs. the Pathetique</p>
<p>to name a few.</p>
<p>It is uncanny how it works.</p>
<p>D'yer --</p>
<p>The so-called Bunkel Index was discredited years ago by the legendary William F. Buckley (Millbrook '54). This is pretty common knowledge. I think the original article which destroys Professor Bunkel's theories is on-line at nationalreview.com.</p>
<p>I'd add that its more than a little disapointing to see someone of your stature peddling this hoakum.</p>
<p>Tabor vs. Holderness.</p>
<p>Yeah, but these are the Headmaster numbers. Ever since the Headmasters of the top schools have been involved, they have eliminated the chiral anomalies that Buckley noted back in 1973. Rather than using the student-assessment data that quantifies graduating senior reviews, the new Bunkel Index has used data straight from the Headmasters since 1998. </p>
<p>Sure, Bunkel would be rolling in his grave right now if he knew that the actual Headmasters were providing input, but it's like the Dow Jones...these things have to evolve as market conditions evolve. </p>
<p>Just as Sears and Goodyear were removed from the Dow Jones to make room for Microsoft and Home Depot, the chiral anomalies that Buckley despised were corrected when the Headmasters took the initiative to revive the Bunkel Index by adding their own scores in place of student self-reporting.</p>
<p>Please provide a cite to any criticism from Buckley about the new, revised Bunkel Index since 1998. You can't. You know you can't. Because in its current form, the new Bunkel is deadly accurate.</p>
<p>You and I both know that WFB Jr. has been a veg since the early 90's, so its unfair of you to expect a recent response from him to what has become known as the "Headmaster's Initiative". IMHO, Buckley's devastating analysis is accepted by most of the experts in this field. </p>
<p>Also, chiral anomalies are notoriously unreliable. See John Kenneth Galbraith's (Milton '36) exhaustive reporting on this in the New England Journal of Secondary Education (which has, sadly, stopped publication).</p>
<p>The GZM rankings you refer to were replaced as recently as 1999 by the WBTY Indices which rely on innuendo, hearsay and innocuous slander. Certainly a much better source than a bunch of "headmasters", who are notorious liars. </p>
<p>Again, you do yourself and your reputation no good by foisting this crap on the unsuspecting and naive readers of this board.</p>
<p>Woodberry Forrest vs. Episcopal High School.</p>
<p>Oh yeah? OH YEAH?!?!</p>
<p>Well, now you're just making stuff up! The naive and unsuspecting readers on this message board have had enough of you...TROLL!</p>
<p>What's a TROLL? I'm just disputing your bad science.</p>
<p>When I was a callow youth, a troll was little nakid doll with wild shocks of purple or green or blue hair. </p>
<p>I resent the comparison.</p>
<p>Lake Forest Academy vs. Western Reserve Academy.</p>
<p>phhhtt!</p>
<p>DeMatha vs. Gonzaga</p>
<p>Now you're in the spirit!!</p>
<p>Cate vs. Thacher.</p>
<p>Anybody else want to play or will it be us two old guys?</p>
<p>Brooks vs. Governors Academy.</p>
<p>Groton Zebra V Middlesex Zebra</p>
<p>The Groton nickname is taken from their traditional football uniform which featured a strip(ed) pattern. Groton in a walk.</p>
<p>Noble and Greenough vs. Belmont Hill.</p>
<p>Middlesex in a run..........................swishhhhhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>Theodate Pope Riddle design of Old Avon Farms Vs Westover</p>
<p>Groton..zebra stripes...sounds lilke a prison uniform.
I'll take the elegance of the St. Paul's pelican - now there's an stately bird!</p>
<p>As impressive as the main buiding at Westover is, the washed out yellow color gives this one to AOF (much as it pains me to say it).</p>