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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4544931, member: 44"] That due diligence submission to the big 12 is a gold mind of information. Although it is reasonably well done, it could be better. For example, take a look at this non-answer to the question of the population within a radius of 100 miles of campus: [ATTACH type="full"]84317[/ATTACH] I see what they’re trying to do, which is reference how close we are to many major metropolitan areas but that wasn’t the question. First, you don’t want to make people work to get their answer. They asked population with in 100 miles give them that gross number, don’t ask them to total the population numbers for a half dozen municipalities. Second, by taking the municipality approach, you completely disregard the population of Connecticut, most of Rhode Island, and part of Massachusetts. That’s easily 2 million or so that they didn’t account for. Far better, from a presentation perspective to say there is (approximately 10 million people) who reside within 100 mile radius of main campus which includes the cities of Hartford, Boston, and Providence. If you include branch campuses this number jumps to (approximately 30 million.). It’s easy enough to get this information by pulling the county population statistics and approximating we’re only a portion of a county is included. [/QUOTE]