Political Science/Int' Studies or Relations/History Programs

Here_to_Help
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:28:44 +0000

Winning the best delegation award in an exotic country (even 3 consecutive years) does not equal being a top team, because the competition is naturally limited by schools which have their spring break during the time of the conference (severe limit) and then by people in those schools who can afford to travel to the exotic locations (another severe limit). It’s also extremely easy to go into another country where English is not the first language and beat people at a debate in English.

WorldMUN is hosted by Harvard in conjunction with an international school and is easily the best quality MUN debate in the world. Anyone “in the know” will tell you that. Students take off a week from school, it never falls on Spring Break, at least for W&M. Part of the mark of a good MUN team is the fundraising ability to subsidize member’s travels. These are delegations from around the US and around the world. All of the “top schools” that you named attend. You underestimate the ability of those from outside the US to speak English. The team from the “United Netherlands” is one of the top teams every year too. WorldMUN is the best because of these limitations. Schools can’t just send any member to WorldMUN. It is the best of the best. I have seen schools send their newbies to Harvard National, but then their most experienced to WorldMUN.



Schools are judged by their performances at well known US conferences which only require the commitment of a weekend and aren’t nearly as expensive. Here the competition is far less constrained and competitors are (almost) all in one place at the same time. William and Mary at these conferences, which feature the most competitive delegates, is off the map. They might have one or two strong members, but the team as a whole is never recognized as a threat.

W&M rarely sends it best members all to the same conference, which I am sure is the case at most schools. The quality of conferences differs as well - many of the more experienced members do not want to attend Yale’s SCSY because of the poor quality of moderation and debate in recent years. We hope this improves. The best of the best come together at WorldMUN, where W&M has obtained the “Best Delegation” tag 3 times in the past decade, the most of any school, and has remained in the top 5 out of over 200 schools attending for the rest of the years, iirc.

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Also what are the average stats of an acceptee to Rhodes?

[Rhodes College | Profile of Entering Class](http://www.rhodes.edu/admissions/3717.asp)
"Seventy-three percent had a grade point average between 3.5 and 4.0; the mean GPA of the class is 3.73 "
“the middle 50% range of SAT-I scores is 1210 to 1370, with a mean of 1290, and the ACT middle 50% range is 26 to 30, with a mean of 28”