<p>In my opinion, the people who want Americans to die in Iraq are the ones who sent them over there in the first place, and for no good reason.</p>
<p>“I can tell you that the admit rate at my alma mater - LAC #1 - is about the same as it was in 1967.”</p>
<p>mini, I don’t know where you come up with your statistics – at least in 1999, the rate of acceptance was 26%, and it has been falling steadily since then (17% in 2007). It may well have been considerably higher way back 32 years earlier.</p>
<p>Did you hear him today re: the mortgage crisis and sub-prime rate holders? Good Lord, I wish he could just for once speak like he knows what the hell he is talking about! He sounds like he’s doing a fund-raiser for the local HS baseball team with all of his “folks” talk. I coudn’t stand it and I turned the raido off.</p>
<p>"t least in 1999, the rate of acceptance was 26%,</p>
<p>I had been out of school for 28 years in 1999. Try 18% when I attended. Most schools reached the low (or their high, depending how you look at it) in 1980-81.</p>
<p>mini: The years have obviously clouded your memories/perception. From the Fall 2004 Williams Alumni Review News Briefs: </p>
<p>“Class of 2008 at a Glance
This year more than 5,700 students applied to Williams, dwarfing last year’s record of 5,341. The acceptance rate was 19 percent – the lowest in the College’s history – with 1,093 students offered a place in the Class of 2008. …”</p>
<p>As you will note, Williams made a point of stating that the 19% acceptance rate in 2004 was “the lowest in the College’s history” – more than 200 years of it (including the time you were there in the late '60s-early 70s).</p>