<p>@iCalculus: the beast policy debater would attend an APDA school, because policy debate in college is kind of strange, and is waaay too much like the NFL. If they were to choose an APDA school based on how well they do on the circuit, they’d go with:
Yale (except they have tryouts, and as a team are less chillaxed than most… though it works, I guess)
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Harvard, BU, MIT (because they’re all in Boston, so go to the most tournaments, and have great teams. Adam Goldstein and Kathleen Clark-Adams, anyone?)
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Amherst, NU, Tufts, Brandeis, Brown (all in or near Boston, with decent to OK teams, where a beast debater could do well)
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Hopkins, Princeton, Chicago, Duke, William & Mary, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Stanford, NYU, UMCP, George Washington, Syracuse, etc. (Sorry, I don’t have enough experience with southern schools, being a northern debater myself, to discriminate too much. These all are schools with longer travel distances, so each debater may not be able to compete in as many tournaments. And they’re ordered such that Hopkins = very good, Syracuse = not as good. But within that there could be some serious movement between the schools).</p>
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