Duke 2014 Hopeful

cdz512
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:35:52 +0000

This is going to be short:

In fact, I have said multiple times that prestige is not the reason why a school is better than another school, so stop putting words into my mouth.

Multiple times? where?

Oh, and even if Stanford’s student body is not “tremendously” better than Duke’s, you still can’t argue that Duke is better. find a few reason’s Duke is better.
Funny how you tell me to read when I clearly said I didn’t have the intention to argue that Duke is better (thanks for putting words in my mouth)

“dean of Stanford”
Love how you are telling me to read when I stated “former president of Stanford” and the letter even says president. I think you need to read

rankings are “very reliable sources”
lets do a pool and ask how many people think US News, Princeton Review rankings are reliable and that precise to be able to say exactly which one is better, down to the single positions.

which I might add is considered the best and most reliable college handbook in the country, so don’t even try to argue that my sources aren’t reliable. It’s THE PRINCEON REVIEW
The best and most? wow can that ever be an opinion. I think individual colleges’ own postings and information (from their website and handouts) are more reliable than Princeton Review.
Show me where does it say princeton review is “most reliable”

– I find it funny how you can’t read. Just in my last post I talked about Duke and Demonstrated interest. Again, learn to read better.
Hmm, after you said this “places like Duke and WashU want to INCREASE their yield, which is why demonstrated interest is so important for them – it’s the only way to separate highly competitive students who have almost exactly the same stats from each other.” You pretty much backed out on the part that demonstrated interest is “SO IMPORTANT” to Duke and not even talking about the “importance” of demonstrated interest for Duke.

If you know about academically reliable sources, which it seems like you never had, and something I hope you learn when you go to college, news and journals are unreliable, go ask your school’s teachers.

The fact that you went around Duke threads and said the same thing to each (5) chance thread that appeared in relatively the same period (less than 36 hours). It becomes more interesting when ALL of them said “I am applying ED”. When you say that to each chance thread and each one that has people asking about their chances at ED, your motive doesn’t seem so apparent.