Kisunas commits to Stanford

[Madmannsucks]

Man, this thread shows the board is HUNGRY for something to argue about.

 

[HooperScooper]

Really? I worked in Palo Alto, wouldn't want to live there. I suppose four years of room and board would be nice, and it's not a bad college town. But it's overcrowded in the bar restaurant area, with all the silicon valley folks. Durham would likely be a more genuine college town.

Have you been to Durham? It's kind of nasty.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Have you been to Durham? It's kind of nasty.

No. Hadn't heard that. I've heard good things about Chapel Hill. I can't really imagine dealing with Palo Alto on a college budget.

 

[8893]

Maybe the most over the top statement to appear on this board in years. Great school, no question, lotta distinguished alums, without a doubt, but there are plenty of schools that fit this mold.

Well, whatever they are doing, it seems they are doing it better than anyone else, as their acceptance rate has been the most selective of any comparable US school for years and it keeps going lower and lower:

Admissions Rates at Record Low Across Ivy League, Stanford, MIT | News | The Harvard Crimson

 

[jcp33]

Good for him, I visited Stanford's campus when I was out in San Fran and it was incredible. If I was able to choose any school in the country to go to (Besides UConn of course), Stanford would be at the top.

 

[superjohn]

Have you been to Durham? It's kind of nasty.

Are you talking about the girls? Two worst schools I've been to in terms of attractive women are Notre Dame and Duke. The Duke thing is weird because they are surrounded by schools with great looking girls.

 

[TRest]

Are you talking about the girls? Two worst schools I've been to in terms of attractive women are Notre Dame and Duke. The Duke thing is weird because they are surrounded by schools with great looking girls.

Those are the two schools whose alums are most likely to tell you where they attended undergrad. Anecdotal, of course.

 

[HooperScooper]

Are you talking about the girls? Two worst schools I've been to in terms of attractive women are Notre Dame and Duke. The Duke thing is weird because they are surrounded by schools with great looking girls.

No, the town.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Maybe the most over the top statement to appear on this board in years. Great school, no question, lotta distinguished alums, without a doubt, but there are plenty of schools that fit this mold.

"... the most over the top statement to appear on this board in years."?
Not even the most over the top today.

Also, define "plenty."
Or name names.

Nothing wrong with objecting to what you consider an overreach, and it may be, but don't compound the problem.

 

[HooperScooper]

No. Hadn't heard that. I've heard good things about Chapel Hill. I can't really imagine dealing with Palo Alto on a college budget.

Chapel Hill is a nice college town. Durham is more an old manufacturing town rather than a college town. There are good things and bad things there.

 

[uconnfan68]

The statement was that it's the best place in the world to both study and play basketball. My opinion was that that is incorrect because the level of basketball played at Duke would make it better. If you were to give basketball and education equal weight and rank the 4 components here I would rank them as such:

1. Duke for Basketball
2. Stanford for Education
3. Duke for Education
4. Stanford for Basketball

1+3 > 2+4

If weighted heavier for education than your statement makes sense, if not than Duke is better because of the basketball.

No one on Duke’s team could get admitted to Stanford.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Well, whatever they are doing, it seems they are doing it better than anyone else, as their acceptance rate has been the most selective of any comparable US school for years and it keeps going lower and lower:

Admissions Rates at Record Low Across Ivy League, Stanford, MIT | News | The Harvard Crimson

It's a great school, no question. The "Stanford graduates are otherworldly creatures one can only hope to observe on television" seemed a bit over the top. I've got an associate from Stanford who's currently driving me up a g o d d a m n wall.

 

[nadav]

No one on Duke’s team could get admitted to Stanford.

If true, and I doubt it, maybe that's why Stanford's basketball team stinks.

But they do have all those Sears Cups!!

 

[alexd]

Putting my tie dye Lithuanian Hoops shirt back into storage.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

No one on Duke’s team could get admitted to Stanford.

If you're talking about getting admitted to Stanford to play basketball that's not even remotely true. As a normal undergrad, sure. But by that standard they wouldn't get into Duke, either.

 

[the Q]

If true, and I doubt it, maybe that's why Stanford's basketball team stinks.

But they do have all those Sears Cups!!

There was something that got out years ago that the duke teams avg sat score was like 850 or something like that. They were absurdly below normal duke standards

 

[SubbaBub]

Duke because the academics aren't that much different but the basketball is on a much higher level.

Yeah...if you want to be a lawyer/basketball analyst. If you want to go home and become a titan of Baltic industry, Stanford.

 

[JeepCSC]

No contest if he were a swimmer. Last year's senior class at Duke played in 16 NCAA tournament games and won 13 (2 FF and 1 title). Average 4 year run there. Stanford's class never played in the big dance.

Just because I don’t like to see Duke get more credit than they are legally entitled to, they won only 12 games and went to only 1 FF in the last 4 years.

 

[JeepCSC]

There was something that got out years ago that the duke teams avg sat score was like 850 or something like that. They were absurdly below normal duke standards

My aunt used to work at admissions at Duke. She never got into specifics, but she’d admit to the tough spots they’d be put in by the football and both basketball programs. Probably similar to most places, though I think perhaps more pronounced at a place where you are turning down valedictorians.

 

[Danzz]

Good for him, I visited Stanford's campus when I was out in San Fran and it was incredible. If I was able to choose any school in the country to go to (Besides UConn of course), Stanford would be at the top.

My pick: Pepperdine. Semi naked California girls on Malibu. I don't think it gets better than that. Not nearly as bright as the Stanford coeds but brains has never been a priority. Go Waves!!

 

[Travelman6]

Stanford>>>>>>> Duke. Hoops aside, it's not even close.

I think both are great UNIs that 95%+ of the population could never hope to get into (and Stanford is more likely 99%). Stanford, CIT or Cal Berkley are like the Ivys of the west.

For me, the difference is likely that Stanford holds its athletes to the same standards as every other student. Duke? I would guess, likely not.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Let’s be real.

Stanford girls >>>>>>> Duke girls

Although Morgan Reid at Duke is bae

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

For me, the difference is likely that Stanford holds its athletes to the same standards as every other student.

That would certainly be admirable if it were true.

 

[8893]

My aunt used to work at admissions at Duke. She never got into specifics, but she’d admit to the tough spots they’d be put in by the football and both basketball programs. Probably similar to most places, though I think perhaps more pronounced at a place where you are turning down valedictorians.

Corey Maggette anyone?

 

[MadDogRevival]

Durham is more an old manufacturing town . . . . There are good things and bad things there.

Yeah. Dook is a bad thing there.