GQ's New "Ranking" of Colleges - Chicago is on the List

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>Um, an interesting new ranking of colleges produced by GQ:</p>

<p>[AMERICA’S</a> 25 DOUCHIEST COLLEGES: GQ Features on men.style.com](<a href=“http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_10779]AMERICA’S”>http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_10779)</p>

<p>Chicago is #17 on this ranking of the “Top 25 Douchiest Colleges.”</p>

<p>The Maroon Blog already has a response to GQ’s list:</p>

<p>[News</a> Blog - The Chicago Maroon](<a href=“http://www.chicagomaroon.com/news-blog]News”>http://www.chicagomaroon.com/news-blog)</p>

<p>According to the Maroon news editor, Chicago’s placement on GQ’s ranking is a good thing - apparently for Chicago, bad publicity is better than no publicity. </p>

<p>I dunno, maybe Chicago has become more, ahem, along the lines of what GQ suggests, but I always pictured more of the Dungeons&Dragons crowd or the cape-wearing Scav hunt folks than what GQ intimates. Time Out Chicago seems to be more on point, at least in terms of my own recollection of the school:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2009/08/gq-calls-u-of-chicago-an-institute-of-******s/[/url]”>http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2009/08/gq-calls-u-of-chicago-an-institute-of-******s/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Thoughts?</p>

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<p>This was done completely arbitrarily. The article says that they made the ranking by picking the douchiest people they know and listing the colleges they went to. GQ always has sarcastic articles that are not meant to be taken seriously at all–and this seems to be one of them. And the Maroon editor understands that, which lets him say what he said.</p>

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<p>Ahh haha I sorta assumed there wasn’t that much highly analytical work that went into constructing this ranking. I also assumed any ranking of measuring “douchiness” was pretty arbitrary. Heh unfortunately at my time at Chicago, I met no one like what the article describes.</p>

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<p>Yeah, they are terribly funny, though. As someone who went to a prepschool, ones on Trinity, Amherst, Princeton, Duke, and Brown just made me crack up.</p>

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<p>Haha yes, for Brown, I LOVED the: Home of the “Peace Sign on my mom’s BMW 7 Series Douuche.” A lot of Brown kids I know mix these remarkably affluent backgrounds with this hippie ideology.</p>

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<p>That was hilarious. But I’d say Princeton belongs on top. :)</p>

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<p>I think the Duke one is hilarious. Heh.</p>

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<p>lmao…those rankings are awesome, except texas needs to be off of it…that burnt orange is hot…</p>

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<p>I’m amazed that people in the Real World know about Deep Springs enough to mock it for being so unknown. That and the Amherst one cracked me up…</p>

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<p>More people need to know about Deep Springs, those guys are serious business. I first heard about it in some radio clip or something where they were talking about Hilary Duff…it was weird.</p>

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<p>Deep Springs sounds compelling; but alas, I am a girl.</p>

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<p>As am I, as am I.</p>

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<p>^From the sound of it those Deep Springs people are modern Chris McCandlesses.</p>

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<p>Since Chicago is one of the top destinations for Deep Springers to finish their bachelors’ degrees – especially since Harvard stopped accepting transfers – there is every chance that you can meet some there.</p>

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<p>I’ve already met a few. :)</p>

<p>And I’ve seen picture albums. Their daily lives seem rather… bloody.</p>

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<p>Are they as mythical as they seem? When you take a photograph do they show up?</p>

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<p>It was all in good fun.</p>

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<p>Aw, I wanna meet one.</p>

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<p>I remember reading a New Yorker article that mentioned that about a quarter of the class transferred to Harvard and the other quarter to Chicago. The rest fanned out to places like Williams, Brown, and Yale. I quickly did the math and realized that means Chicago and H net about 3 DS kids a year. I know two former DS kids :-D</p>

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<p>So, should that net Chicago a higher (douchier?) douchiest ranking?</p>