<p>I didn’t insult HC with any generalizations other than the ones that are heavily manifested and purported at the college…I will say this for the hundredth time, HC is a great school but I still believe Villanova is better and I will state my reasons as will all of you…it’s a free country and I will speak my mind laligaBarca and you better get used to it.</p>
<p>Nova2011, you somehow left a large portion of emotional maturity in that lost skipped year of high school; and for this public service, i would like to express to you my gratitude! i was going to say that you singlehandedly lowered the expectations for both me and my cohorts; but it’s more accurate to say that we’re all very much “used to” your style–it’s too prevalent in these threads. Many try to read HC and Villanova threads, looking for substance and excellence. (1.) open college confidential; (2.) look under dream schools; (3.) search for substance, honorable statements; (4.) find poorly written in-fighting involving person who really is scratching to get into a third school (Georgetown).</p>
<p>read me as you wish, judge me and slander me but that doesn’t make anything about Villanova any weaker or HC any stronger. You have shown that you cannot follow simple instructions to stay on topic on the thread titled Villanova or Holy Cross…we can start a thread called is Nova2011 bitter, insecure, arrogant or whatever but your insults are exactly what you say I am, (fighting involving person). Get the plank out of your own eye before the speck in the other’s.</p>
<p>Oh CC threads. I may find this wildly entertaining. </p>
<p>Nova: the “other than” part of the generalization statement completly erases the “I didn’t insult HC with any generalizations” part. Anyway good luck at Nova, glad I chose not to go b/c I feel like you and I would somehow find each other and buttheads all the time about stupid things. </p>
<p>LaLiga: How mature can we expect this poor boy (I’m assuming) to be. He’s what, 17 or 18? The internet isn’t exactly full of honorable substance written by teenagers :)</p>
<p>^once again resorting to ad hominem. Attack my arguments rather than me it will make your position stronger. Right now you cannot think of anything intelligent to say so you attack the person. Btw, who ever said being precocious was a bad thing?</p>
<p>I was trying to end this back and forth. Just lighthearted comments, relax Nova. I have commented on your arguments (the only real one being the number of NMFs). I’m not attacking you, I don’t know you.</p>
<p>The reason why Holy Cross has no National Merit Scholars is because they award only need-based aid. Harvard, Yale University, and the six other schools in the Ivy League also don’t fund National Merit scholarships because they award only need-based aid.</p>
<p>HC is ranked #29 of national liberal arts colleges by US News. Nova is ranked #1 on North regional masters universities list. But when University of Richmond six years ago moved from regional masters list to national liberal arts list, Richmond came on the national liberal arts list at #40.</p>
<p>Also on the Forbes ranking which combined both universities and liberal arts in one list HC was ranked right next to Boston College and pages ahead of Nova</p>
<p>Just to be clear, when U. Richmond came from #1 rank of Regional Masters List (like Nova is now) to national liberal arts list in 2006, it came in at #40 of national liberal arts schools. It is a useful benchmark because HC is #29 on the liberal arts list.</p>
<p>One view of alumni satisfaction is the alumni giving rate.</p>
<p>Villanova grads average participation is only 9% of alumni donate to the college.
[Alumni</a> Giving Statistics | Villanova University](<a href=“http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/advancement/alumni/events/reunion/giftstatistics.html]Alumni”>http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/advancement/alumni/events/reunion/giftstatistics.html)</p>
<p>Holy Cross has one of the strongest records of alumni giving of any college or university in the country. For more than half a century, they have alumni participation rates of over 50 percent and last year reached 55 percent, placing HC among the top 8 colleges in the nation for alumni participation. [Holy</a> Cross Alumni Community - Holy Cross Fund](<a href=“http://alumni.holycross.edu/s/1380/index.aspx?sid=1380&gid=1&pgid=459]Holy”>http://alumni.holycross.edu/s/1380/index.aspx?sid=1380&gid=1&pgid=459)</p>