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AF6872 · 06-15-2009, 06:52 PM

Where is it "no secret" that there has been a relaxing of the standards for Athletes, minorities etc...? What is your definition of etc.? Women, Chinese, Koreans, Irish, Italians, Sufis, Japanese, Portugese and/or any other sociological definition? You are stating that anyone not fitting your definition of an accepted "normal" group has been given preferential treatment. BS. Check your history. The Acadamies have favorably competed with the Ivys for centuries and continue to do so. Yale received twenty one thousand applications last year and accepted just over two thousand. The Naval Academy had over fifteen thousand five hundred and accepted approximately one thousand two hundred. Some of those accepted by the idividual institutions applied to both.

By the way Patton was fluent in three languages and an Olympic athelete. I don't know about Halsey, McCain and Ridgeway but I doubt any top tier school would have rejected them if they could have paid the frieght (not McCain). You are talking about colleges for most of these guys in the twentys and thirties. There were'nt a lot they could afford or anyone could afford. If you went to an Ivy in those days your dad owned a railroad or a bank and had a summer home in Newport. It was probably harder for them to get into college than for anyone today.

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AF6872 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 244	Where is it "no secret" that there has been a relaxing of the standards for Athletes, minorities etc...? What is your definition of etc.? Women, Chinese, Koreans, Irish, Italians, Sufis, Japanese, Portugese and/or any other sociological definition? You are stating that anyone not fitting your definition of an accepted "normal" group has been given preferential treatment. BS. Check your history. The Acadamies have favorably competed with the Ivys for centuries and continue to do so. Yale received twenty one thousand applications last year and accepted just over two thousand. The Naval Academy had over fifteen thousand five hundred and accepted approximately one thousand two hundred. Some of those accepted by the idividual institutions applied to both. By the way Patton was fluent in three languages and an Olympic athelete. I don't know about Halsey, McCain and Ridgeway but I doubt any top tier school would have rejected them if they could have paid the frieght (not McCain). You are talking about colleges for most of these guys in the twentys and thirties. There were'nt a lot they could afford or anyone could afford. If you went to an Ivy in those days your dad owned a railroad or a bank and had a summer home in Newport. It was probably harder for them to get into college than for anyone today. Last edited by AF6872; 06-15-2009 at 06:58 PM.
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