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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the higher ranked USNWR schools have physically uglier and weaker students. Someone should do a survey. It would be easy to take random samples at a statistically relevant number then have the public rate unidentified photos.  Looks are equal or more important in life than almost anything and it would be good to be associated with an institution with higher ranked attractiveness.[/quote]

Unlikely, considering individuals who come from wealth tend to be more attractive and healthier (for obvious selection and socioeconomic reasons).

Sure, wealthy private universities known for party culture may have more attractive students than the Ivies, but certainly not true when comparing the Ivies to the average university. [/quote]

Places like JMU and U of South Carolina have better looking  people with healthier and more fertile bodies than the elite schools. Look at people like Hillary and Bill Gates or the tech billionaires. They are really unattractive and are pretty typical for the ivys. Personally I’d rather be decent looking with a healthy fertile body and go to JMU.[/quote]

Yes, poor and lower-middle-class/middle-class people white people are better looking than the sons and daughters of American wealthy and socially connected.... you do realize stupidity in this line of reasoning?  Besides first Gen kids, the top schools are filled with kids that had the best food, played on top travel sports teams (they have tons of athletes), top medical care. They come from households that have the best, freshest food and have an unusually high percentage of students coming from families in the top income brackets around the globe.  Do you really think all rich people are ugly and marry ugly people? Do you think that the rich do not fix unpleasant features or there is rampant obesity of the physically active wealthy class?

I think this is just your personal fantasy and justification.[/quote]

Nope. From my anecdotal experience the higher rated schools have uglier, less healthy looking alumni. Plus a higher degree of mental illness and special needs children. But definitely more research needs to be done and tabulated in rankings so the public can pick among attractiveness and health qualities of different schools.

If you check the cheerleader pictures at say.. the university of South Carolina then line them up next to the cheerleaders at say Brown, you’ll see what I mean. Most young people if they could choose would look like and be a South Carolina cheerleader than look like a Brown cheerleader in that you will probably have a more charmed life overall. You would have to think about it for a few minutes, but most would choose the good looks and vitality option.[/quote]

You are too stupid to realize no one beautiful wants to be a cheerleader at Brown. So low class!  Get your middle America limited mind to realize all the famous kids (models/actors/ billionaire kids of trophy wives) don’t want to be cheerleaders cause they want to go to LA, Paris and compounds on the weekend. Please don’t use a standard that is completely irrelevant to judge a school. Your so naive and frankly ignorant. [/quote]

Lol no one who made it into Brown wants to be someone else’s cheerleader.  And if they were doing cheer (if that’s even a thing there), it would be a small part of their life far down from research, internships, travel, or playing their own sport (as opposed to cheering for one).  [/quote]

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