quote: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.
quote: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 Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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I dunno, my cousins all went to Santa Barbara and they have quite the frisbee team-- and quite the reputation as a party school.
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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.
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