Why would the Athletics Department be automatically opposed? You'd think we'd have the resources to host. I mean, it's not like we're some crap school like RPI.
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Hockey / Re: Selection Show
March 24, 2008, 02:57:32 PM
Right, but it need not be here at Lynah. I meant that BU has hosted in Worcester, not at the Agganis. I guess Athletics would not be willing to fully prop up an Albany/Syracuse/Rochester regional.
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Hockey / Re: Selection Show
March 23, 2008, 10:01:22 PM
Why do we need to do to become a host school? BU hosts in order to stay back here in the East if they make the tournament. That would have helped in years past when the system royally screwed us.
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John Spencer Is Dead / Re: Legacy situation
March 23, 2008, 09:47:45 PM
[quote BillCharlton][quote nyc94]To add to what Robb said, Cornell has routinely putting out press releases about the record number of applications they have been receiving as have most of the Ivies. Whatever they are calling the current generation of high school kids - Gen Y, Boomer Echo, etc. - there are a heck of a lot more of them than there was in 1990 when I applied and I wonder if I would be accepted at Cornell now. My high school routinely graduated 400 a year into the mid-80s and then the numbers started dropping until bottoming out around 220 in about 1993. They are over 400 again and the town had to build a new middle school, build an addition to the high school, and reopen an elementary school that had been shuttered. Overall the town population has only slightly increased.
Just wondering chominky, did your son also apply to Arts?[/quote]
Don't overestimate Gen Y. They are not smarter than past generations; they certainly are not better educated. Back in my day, kids used to read books instead of surfing the Internet and playing video games! We also were not overly concerned with finding ways to maximize our SAT scores. We just took the SATs and lived with the result. I get the impression that many of the "wunderkinder" today play the recruiting game better and get "coached up" to maximize their scores. Had we grown up in the same environment, I'm sure we could have done the same.[/quote]
FYP for German speakers.
And who is partly responsible for putting into place and perpetuating the system that encourages such behavior among young people today? PWNED.
Just wondering chominky, did your son also apply to Arts?[/quote]
Don't overestimate Gen Y. They are not smarter than past generations; they certainly are not better educated. Back in my day, kids used to read books instead of surfing the Internet and playing video games! We also were not overly concerned with finding ways to maximize our SAT scores. We just took the SATs and lived with the result. I get the impression that many of the "wunderkinder" today play the recruiting game better and get "coached up" to maximize their scores. Had we grown up in the same environment, I'm sure we could have done the same.[/quote]
FYP for German speakers.
And who is partly responsible for putting into place and perpetuating the system that encourages such behavior among young people today? PWNED.
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