Swarthmore 7
Williams 5
Middlebury 2
Swarthmore +1
Middlebury -2
Eliminated so far:
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
Williams 6
Swarthmore 5
Middlebury 2
Swarthmore -2
Williams +1
Eliminated so far:
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
Williams 6
Swarthmore 3
Middlebury 2
Swarthmore -2
Eliminated so far:
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
Williams 6
Middlebury 3
Swarthmore 1
Swarthmore -2
Eliminated so far:
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
I also added 1 to Middlebury in the above post
Williams 6
Middlebury 4
Middlebury +1
Swarthmore -2
Eliminated so far:
3 Swarthmore
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
Williams 7
Middlebury 2
Middlebury -2
Williams +1
Eliminated so far:
3 Swarthmore
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
@fprosk what are you going to do when Middlebury is eliminated? You won’t have any school to vote against? Did Middlebury kill your parents in a dark alley? You’ve down-voted them literally every time you’ve voted.
^ Let’s find out.
Middlebury -2
Williams +1
Final:
1 Williams
2 Middlebury
3 Swarthmore
4 Wesleyan
5 Pomona
6 Bowdoin
7 Haverford
8 Davidson
9 Carleton
10 Wellesley
11 Washington & Lee
12 Claremont Mckenna
13 Hamilton
14 Amherst
15 Harvey Mudd
16 USNA Annapolis
17 USMA West Point
18 Colby
19 Macalester
20 Vassar
21 Smith
22 Grinnell
23 Bates
24 Colgate
25 Oberlin
Cool…
Well that was fun.
I feel pretty good about how this finished. Aside from a few outliers (Amherst, CMC) the eventual list was pretty close to my personal list below.
@urbanslaughter There were literally 2 schools left when you said that…
And if you check earlier in the thread you’d see I haven’t always been voting against Middlebury.
There are a number of ‘new’ schools on this list that I never would have considered “top LACs” from my days applying to the leading LACs 30 years ago. Perception certainly has changed with the inclusion of some regional schools that I would never have considered applying to back in the day… Also - I think it is inappropriate to list the service academies on this list. In fact, those schools are division 1 and belong grouped with the larger schools. Moreover, the service academies admit more than half of the applicants who are nominated, hence the admission results are invalidly skewed as the initial nomination screen is not administered by the school itself, rather by the nominating entity…
I’m not surprised by Amherst’s finish. This was a game that required a little knowledge regarding which CC regulars will boost which colleges and staying out of their cross-hairs for as long as possible. No one was really playing for Amherst, although you would think they’d have lots of natural allies within NESCAC. Same for the California colleges - they were all dodge ball targets early in the game…
@urbanslaughter sure loves Middlebury.
Exactly lol
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