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Let me connect the dots for you.  My original post commented on Brown historically not being the financially strongest or most selective Ivy, with no time frame given.  Your response cited a NYT article from 1983 saying it had the highest number of applicants of all the Ivy League schools.  I responded in my second post that that time period in the NYT article was the JFK, Jr effect.  You responded by saying "not only do you have no  evidence for your claims of [b]either[/b] post. . .".  So I responded with evidence for both posts.  You then say my response "has no relevance to the [b]original [/b]post".  That is the definition of moving goal posts.

But you are going to keep going on the attack no matter what I say, aren't you?[/quote]

I love how you say it is an attack when I am using your own words.  I love how you refer to your words when you could have simply quoted them.  You didn't, and it is obvious why.  Allow me:

[quote]Brown has really benefitted from being in the Ivy League. It was always thought of as perhaps the poorest of the Ivy League schools. T[b]he halo effect of the Ivy League has helped them with admissions[/b] and they have made up some ground on building up their endowment.[/quote]

That's you.  Refers to admissions, explicitly.  Link proves Brown's admissions were more popular than HYP before the rankings and therefore makes your statement false.  Suddenly we have JFK Jr. links and Roy Cohn accusations, for reasons I cannot fathom.  Even if your claim he made it more popular is true, that does not prove your statement or disprove mine and is therefore 100% strawman.

You can resume calling me names, gish galloping, and lying.  This point is proved to anyone who can read and I am now done reiterating it.

Have a nice day!

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Get a grip.  In what way am I lying?  What part of these points are wrong?:

* Brown has really benefitted from being in the Ivy League. The halo effect of the Ivy League has helped them with admissions
* [Brown] was always thought of as perhaps the poorest of the Ivy League schools. . . they have made up some ground on building up their endowment.

You then claim to have me logically checkpointed by referring to a 1983 article which is pre-rankings, even though my argument did not mention rankings.  [/quote]

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