Anonymous wrote:Don’t understand this board’s hostility to nerds or strivers. Wonder if social media has made people carry this “vision” of what they think college “should” be versus what it actually is.

The problem is that the typical frequent posters here obsess about SATs and T20, but they actually think the ideal kid is the kind of kid who gets Commended status, golfs, rushes a fraternity at UVa. and does well at the fraternity and eventually gets an MBA, not a kid bright enough to get a CS degree from MIT.

Most of the frequent posters here pretend that an MIT student is the ideal student, but, in real life, when they were in grade school, they probably bullied the kinds of encyclopedia-reading 8-year-olds who ended up at MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:Walking around and touring a ton of top 20 schools the last year, I beg to differ. Nerd central to an alarming degree. My DC wouldn’t even consider most of them.

Nice cope for not being able to get in to HYPSM.

In fairness, HYPS are generally not appealing places to spend four years for most bright students.

Anonymous wrote:Walking around and touring a ton of top 20 schools the last year, I beg to differ. Nerd central to an alarming degree. My DC wouldn’t even consider most of them.

Nice cope for not being able to get in to HYPSM.

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Anonymous wrote:get rid of these sports.

Why? Seriously

the only reason to keep them is for the school culture. but if nobody cares, nobody cares

stop prioritizing athletes

I find it funny you specifically mentioned Northwestern because I went there and they sell licensed "Nerdwestern" shirts in the student union.

Walking around and touring a ton of top 20 schools the last year, I beg to differ. Nerd central to an alarming degree. My DC wouldn’t even consider most of them.

Someone might mot know what a nerd is.

One of the most interesting pieces of advice I’ve seem from admissions directors is showing your interest in a variety of extracurricular activities. I don’t remember which school or the name of the person, but he said college is not about just learning. It is also about the experiences the students have as part of the school. He noted it would be easy to fill schools will kids with perfect grades and test scores, but then they might just end up will full libraries and dead campus life. Thought it was a valuable insight and why extracurricular activities are important and why kids with perfect metrics may get passed over for admissions. Wonder if this school is trying to right the ship, in an odd way, free beer if you’re 25?

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Anonymous wrote:get rid of these sports.

Why? Seriously

Most are money drains. Get rid of them and lower tuition.

Anonymous wrote:get rid of these sports.

Why? Seriously

Anonymous wrote:Is Rice a good football team this year?

It's not a particularly remarkable football program. But Rice has a large stadium. It dates back from a long time ago. JFK gave his moon speech there. The Super Bowl was played at Rice stadium in the 70s. This is all from the era when Houston didn't have much else.

You could put every Rice student in the stadium today and it would still be empty. There are roughly 8000 students at Rice in total including grad. That stadium holds 50,000.

I believe Rice is going through a redevelopment plan and is connecting the university with everything surrounding. A discount on beer for over 21 at the stadium is the least of things as they redevelop that geography.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t understand this board’s hostility to nerds or strivers. Wonder if social media has made people carry this “vision” of what they think college “should” be versus what it actually is.

It's one tiresome poster.

get rid of these sports.

Why the assumptions that nerds don’t drink or know how to party? For admitted day at top5 PhD engineering, took the prospect kids to bars/clubs. Show them a good time!

Anonymous wrote:Nerds and Beer are not mutually exclusive

Right, that’s why beer commercials often depict computer programmers & Star Trek conventions.