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Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/education/edlife/sports.html?ex=1163480400&en=f488592168320deb&ei=5070&emc=eta1

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FORGET college guides, U.S. News & World Report rankings, average SAT scores. The best gauge of an institution’s ex cellence may actually be … its ultimate Frisbee team. At least that’s the theory of Dr. Michael J. Norden, a Univer sity of Washington professor of psychiatry.

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Dr. Norden analyzed the Ultimate Players Association “power ratings” of private national universities over a decade (the ratings assess strength based on past performance), and he discovered a startling pattern. “All the schools with above-average ultimate teams also have aboveaverage graduation rates,” says Dr. Norden, whose son is, not coincidentally, a serious high school player looking for a university with a good team. “They average a 90 percent graduation rate, while the average graduation rate for private national universities is just 73 percent. Statistically, that just doesn’t happen by chance.”

Somehow I don't think this holds for Skidmore. Our ultimate frisbee team is called "The Skidmore Wombats" and on campus the word 'wombat' has come to be synonmous with 'drunk and naked'. Course, I really ought not be talking, seeing as I'm a wombat meself [Big Grin]

Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :

Yeah for Ultimate. (that is all)

Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :

You know, I believe it. Of course, I'm a former ultimate player myself.

I'm curious about the correlation between good marching bands and graduation rates. [Big Grin]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I dunno, my cousins all went to Santa Barbara and they have quite the frisbee team-- and quite the reputation as a party school.

Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :

But do people graduate above or below average at party schools? After all, burning a little stress off with a good party might help kids get through in one piece.