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Title: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: billhoward on April 30, 2013, 10:54:33 PM
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/the-sexiest-smartest-colleges-in-the-country purports to show colleges on a matrix of Academic and Sexy. Cornell is near the top (More Academic) and straddling the middle on Sexy/Less Sexy. Brown and Dartmout appear to be the champs: the two blips in the upper right corner. Stanford is in upper left corner: most academic, less sexy.

(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/4/30/17/enhanced-buzz-wide-12738-1367358320-20.jpg)
Title: Re: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: Trotsky on April 30, 2013, 11:05:38 PM
Boy, there is something very wrong with their data.  The sexiness scale ought to be almost exactly inverted from that shown.  It's as if Urban Baby was the target demographic.   ::doh::
Title: Re: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on May 01, 2013, 08:08:31 AM
MIT should be off the top of the chart beyond the left hand corner.  It's the most academics-obsessed place I've ever been.
Title: Re: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: Trotsky on May 01, 2013, 09:11:41 AM
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82MIT should be off the top off the chart beyond the left hand corner.  It's the most academics-obsessed place I've ever been.
Cal Tech too.

Every public university in the south should be in the lower right quadrant.

Every private university in the north should be in the upper left quadrant.

The upper right quadrant should be completely empty.

You could actually get a decent approximation by just taking a map of the US, flipping it about the vertical access, rotating it 45 degrees, foreshortening it so that the center point was somewhere around Happy Valley.
Title: Re: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: billhoward on May 01, 2013, 10:41:54 AM
Does any school beyond University of Chicago have the informal motto "Where Fun Goes to Die"?
Title: Re: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: Trotsky on May 01, 2013, 11:50:47 AM
Quote from: billhowardDoes any school beyond University of Chicago have the informal motto "Where Fun Goes to Die"?
BYU should.
Title: Re: Cornell on Academic/Sexy college chart
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on May 02, 2013, 09:41:54 AM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: billhowardDoes any school beyond University of Chicago have the informal motto "Where Fun Goes to Die"?
BYU should.

No, their motto is "Where fun gets postponed until marriage"  ::wank::