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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stanford is only the most selective school due to lack of competition. It's the only truly world-class elite private university west of the Mississippi. Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are located a couple hundred miles from each other and are tugging away for applicants and interests. Furthermore, you get a lot of weaker applicants at Stanford who are more interested in athletics and stand no chance of getting in. The desirability of California plays a big impact as well, [b]which is why you see Berkeley[/b]/UCLA as the public schools [b]with the lowest acceptance rates [/b]and Pomona/CMC as the LACs with this. [/quote]

You have no idea what you're talking about. It's hilarious that you seriously think the only reason people apply to Berkeley is because it's just some random public school in California where the weather is nice. And that Stanford is only famous because it has no competition.

Have you heard of this little thing called the Internet?  :shock: Where do you think it came from?

And you think non-Californian universities don't have weaker applicants who are hoping to slip in based on athletics?  :roll: [/quote]

Ummmm well since you asked: the Internet was originally developed by the USG. [/quote]

It was a U.S. government project (ARPANET), but work was done at universities, like many government projects, including UCLA and Stanford.[/quote]

Ok, but to credit Stanford for the internet, which is what PP implicitly did, is just stupid. [/quote]

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