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Post by flyoverhoya on Mar 12, 2021 10:41:01 GMT -5
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Mar 5, 2021 13:06:54 GMT -5
Post by flyoverhoya on Mar 5, 2021 13:06:54 GMT -5
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Post by flyoverhoya on Mar 3, 2021 12:07:54 GMT -5
Only 8 in the last 36 minutes. We started the game on pace for 60.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Feb 18, 2021 14:46:22 GMT -5
Throwing a 10 and a 12 year old under the bus.... Classy move, Senator.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Feb 18, 2021 14:24:36 GMT -5
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Post by flyoverhoya on Feb 18, 2021 14:10:29 GMT -5
Hell, along with Texas, has apparently frozen over, as I agree w/D'Souza that having Ted Cruz out of the country is probably best for all concerned. (I suppose we would differ, however, on whether or not that absence ought to be permanent.)
Related, tens of thousands of wind turbines in WI, MN, ND, SD, Greenland, etc... all work just fine in the cold.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Jan 11, 2021 14:55:25 GMT -5
This was proposed (don't think it got very far) in PA either 4 or 8 years ago. Anything to enshrine minority rule...
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Post by flyoverhoya on Jan 11, 2021 11:04:59 GMT -5
They should have added something about yanking admission to the S.Ct. bar while the were at it (assuming one or the other of them is admitted there).
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Post by flyoverhoya on Jan 5, 2021 11:17:37 GMT -5
And this is the perfect example of the cult like mentality of Trump supporters. The fact that there is no proof of election fraud doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen, just that they couldn’t find it. The mind-numbing stupidity of this type of argument is hard to fathom. “I absolutely know the Hamburglar and Grimace were the masterminds behind 9/11, but I’m just having difficulty finding the proof of it.” Ed Rollins is still alive?
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Post by flyoverhoya on Dec 17, 2020 13:20:33 GMT -5
I like the fact that GPAs and standardized test scores are no longer reported - I think providing that information colored interviewers' reports, and the interview rating is (I've always thought) one of the few things in the process that isn't supposed to be based on the applicant's "numbers."
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Post by flyoverhoya on Dec 16, 2020 12:10:33 GMT -5
I have interviewed for several years and have had only a couple of kids get in. Neither was particularly impressive or had a compelling story to tell. The only top recommendation I ever gave was a brilliant young lady whose high school resume was stellar. She got wait listed and when I wrote her the suggested note of encouragement, replied very nicely, “thanks but I’ll be going to Stanford” What I know about admissions is that I know nothing about admissions. Nobody does. Having seen it from undergrad work study days through 25 years of AAP interviewing, it's a crapshoot. Only difference is that it's now a much more selective crapshoot. It's not just GU. My oldest went through the college application process last year, and there's no discernable rhyme or reason to where she did/didn't get in, where she got waitlisted, etc...
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Post by flyoverhoya on Dec 16, 2020 12:03:25 GMT -5
Isn't the upshot of that story that there was, in fact, one verifiable instance of voter fraud?
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Post by flyoverhoya on Dec 10, 2020 13:46:08 GMT -5
The only lawless Wisconsinites I'm aware of are the ones that haven't bothered to actually meet in legislative session since last March.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Dec 8, 2020 16:48:19 GMT -5
"I feel sorry for Texans that their tax dollars are being wasted on such a genuinely embarrassing lawsuit," Kaul, a Democrat, said in a statement. "Texas is as likely to change the outcome of the Ice Bowl as it is to overturn the will of Wisconsin voters in the 2020 presidential election."
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Post by flyoverhoya on Dec 1, 2020 11:17:56 GMT -5
I predict that when Georgetown gets its next dean of admissions, it will soon after go to the Common App. It simply makes sense for colleges, high schools, and applicants to use a common platform to manage the application process. In my experience, very selective schools require multiple additional essays from their applicants beyond the generic essay on the Common App. Applying to these schools is far more onerous than merely typing their name into the Common App and paying the fee. The selective schools that use the Common App manage to find outstanding students who meet their unique applicant profiles. There's a lot more writing involved in most selective schools' Common App supplements than there is in the GU application.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Nov 30, 2020 16:33:04 GMT -5
Good to see that. More often than not, "name" adjuncts (or whatever political bent) tend to be relatively lousy teachers.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Nov 30, 2020 16:23:43 GMT -5
These petitions fall of their own weight because they too are rooted in their own bias. How many people are unable to apply to Georgetown because of the absence of the Common Application? Statistically, very little. The Common App provides institutions very little in the way of holistic review of applicants and are really meant to pump up application numbers to suit university executives when, in fact, they are counterproductive to a serious admissions effort. Example: Fordham had over 45,000 applications generated through the Common App--twice as much as Georgetown, and even more than Harvard. Is Fordham suddenly more diverse? No, and the opposite is true. Fordham's yield (percentage enrolled against admitted) sank to just 8%, or one in 12 admitted actually went there because the majority of those checking the box for Fordham had no interest in actually going there if a better offer came along. (FWIW, Harvard's yield is 81% and Georgetown 48%) Advocates for change may well be careful about efforts to support "their" preferred underrepresented groups versus the demographically underrepresented groups in the nation as a whole. Among those underrepresented? Applicants from the Midwest and South, students that want Greek life, married students, Mormons, and evangelicals. Are SFS students ready for a Campus Bible Fellowship if evangelicals attended Georgetown at the same percentage of the US population? Anecdotally (friends with high schoolers, AAP interviewees, my daughter), I think that GU's remaining outside of the various application portals (Common, Coalition, Questbridge) is a net negative, and de-emphasizing or doing away with standardized tests is becoming the way of the world. There have always been issues with standardized tests, whether it's their relatively poor ability to predict success or the fact that the SAT and ACT have always been viewed differently by admissions offices. Being from the Midwest, I've always told applicants to be sure and take the SAT - the ACT is the test of choice in flyover country, but while (mostly) coastal schools say that they take either, there's a strong bias in favor of the SAT.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Nov 24, 2020 14:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by flyoverhoya on Nov 10, 2020 10:09:07 GMT -5
There's a Zoom background of Four Seasons floating around out there, too.
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Post by flyoverhoya on Nov 8, 2020 15:44:02 GMT -5
Beautiful! Ready, Fire, Aim. Filing lawsuits now before even trying to find any evidence. I am so naive. I thought it was the other way around. Final word on Trump and his team of incompetent and corrupt losers? Pathetic. Yeah, a "press release with a filing fee" doesn't quite cut it.
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