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I want to be a Rhodes Scholar

What is required?
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Probably you should have been smart enough to get into a dec...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
I was just being a cock, sorry. You'll do Ok.
naked mexican
  11/24/05
3.8 GPA, decent athletic skills, and an ability to suck up t...
Pink church
  11/24/05
Athletic skills? :( I don't have that. Sucking up I can hand...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Sorry, the athletic part is in there to keep people like you...
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  11/24/05
Damn :(
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Good grasshopper, then you must train - you must reach a sta...
Pink church
  11/24/05
Please guide me to the path.
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Clinton had athletic skillz?
Stimulating Duck-like Theater
  04/27/06
He talks about this in his autobiography. He says this is...
drab abusive whorehouse jew
  07/11/06
high grades. some research would be good, especially if you...
Cyan twisted preventive strike
  11/24/05
thanks, look at my "rate my extracurriculars thread&quo...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
that looks like a good start. seriously
Pink church
  11/24/05
not bad. whlie you have a very good gpa (in a tough major) ...
Cyan twisted preventive strike
  11/24/05
What sort of organizations or businesses do I have to start?...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
yeah, that's good. I'd suggest some diversity in your inter...
Cyan twisted preventive strike
  11/24/05
Create organizations that aren't "connected" to an...
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  11/24/05
Please refer to my "rate my extracurriculars" thre...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
you need an interesting personality and a good presence. i ...
Free-loading Chocolate Dysfunction Lay
  11/24/05
please look at my rate my extracurriculars thread and tell m...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
here's my tip: learn how to converse
Free-loading Chocolate Dysfunction Lay
  11/24/05
I will get to that eventually! I hope! :)
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Why are you so insecure? You're clearly on a path of self-ha...
Insane Turdskin
  11/24/05
False. Ever hear of Joe Caltech? He's worse with people than...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
How the fuck would you know how Joe's people skills are? He'...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
I'm sure he makes up his "plenty of friends", or t...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
No, you don't get it. He, like you, is "out." We k...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
Never tempt a man with quicker wit. I never said that th...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
From everything you've posted and the insights about you fro...
sick turquoise piazza
  11/24/05
How so?
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
You were a social pariah at Carleton and have serious proble...
sick turquoise piazza
  11/24/05
I wasn't a social pariah. I was the slander target of a few ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Also, he was a math PhD student, like you. You've said yours...
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  11/25/05
I'm just saying that Joe got into every graduate program he ...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
"I'm assuming math is slightly more competitive and pre...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
I can accept pretty much everything you say. It just seems a...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
That's the schtick part of it. Off the board, I don't care a...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
That sucks. I'm stuck on campus myself -- fortunately my roo...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
Yeah, I agree on what you say re Thanksgiving. Around Octobe...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Creating a new past might work for you (at least it would be...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
Thanks. Good luck to you, too. Happy Thanksgiving.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Dude, chill out. Why are you so anxious to get into a relati...
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  11/24/05
It's possible to enjoy being single. It's not possible to en...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
One fling? Just move on already and don't dwell on it. In th...
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  11/24/05
I'm in grad school; we don't get trashed, we don't do "...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Ok. I don't really know who Joe Caltech, you, or 174 are ...
marvelous library
  11/24/05
lol, yeah I think I wanted to be Rhodes Scholar when I was l...
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  11/24/05
my sister wanted to be a neurosurgeon i think she chang...
marvelous library
  11/24/05
That's really not true anymore. Maybe it was at one time, bu...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Also, you should probably stop talking about prestige and th...
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  11/24/05
You would have NO SHOT EVER, so lets clear that up to begi...
marvelous library
  11/24/05
You are wrong, and you can suck my cock, so let's clear that...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
the rhodes is one of the ultimate arbiters of prestige. ...
marvelous library
  11/24/05
You see, it's really not. Yes, the Rhodes Scholarship is nea...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Oiy. this argument is getting truly circular. where ...
marvelous library
  11/24/05
Yeah, he needs to hear that, over and over and over.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Why would anyone need to hear something that's not true?
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Everyone else on this thread seems to disagree with you.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
I am smarter than a lot of people here and it is by this fac...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Circular. And retarded.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Wow. You managed to describe the shape of your penis and you...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
I guess they'll be paying their own way through master's pro...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Don't forget: 174, who is more prestigious than you, or anyo...
sick turquoise piazza
  11/24/05
You're 22! You should not have an ascetic lifestyle! In fact...
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  11/24/05
"You're 22! You should not have an ascetic lifestyle!&q...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Well then just focus on your schoolwork. But also try to mak...
clear cracking base gay wizard
  11/24/05
I do what I can. Right now I feel completely hemmed-in by co...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
"Now, Master's programs are generally much less selecti...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
He does want to be a prof, and I believe that he's going to ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
So he was willing to pay his own way at a grad program? I've...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Nothing a little searching won't turn up...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Good job digging up the evidence. Anyone who thought Joe pa...
sick turquoise piazza
  11/24/05
Oh well.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
Hahahahahaha! Pensive is speechless! Your point has just ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Technically I lost that subargument, but the fact that Joe C...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/24/05
And the fact that he got into PhD programs at schools that r...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Yes, but I could have gotten into them for other departments...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"Yes, but I could have gotten into them for other depar...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Well, this doesn't apply for the latter three (since the pro...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Law isn't a PhD program. You make it too easy, Mike...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
No, it's not. I must have misread GTO's post, actually, beca...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
All conjecture. As it stands, Joe has real results (you'r...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Um, you don't get rejected or accepted at a graduate school,...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
And he got into basically the top 5 or 6 PhD programs in his...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
How big were those programs? Math PhD programs are tiny. The...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
And thus I'd imagine not many people apply either. How th...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Top-15 math departments have very low acceptance rates, ofte...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Back that up, or it's worthless (god knows much of what you ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Departments generally don't publish them, and USNews doesn't...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"However, this debate has been held on this forum in th...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
No. This is not true. I just don't care enough to find the t...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I found the thread that disproved your assertion, quite hand...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Post it, then.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&for...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I know some acceptance rates we COULD look up. How about acc...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
What does this matter, given that I went to Carleton for loc...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"could have" but didn't. How'd that Harvard app tu...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Nah, I got into Chicago, and only wrote 3 applications. Harv...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"Nah, I got into Chicago" Along with half the o...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Actually, it's highly selective. The reason for the high acc...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
It's absolutely chock-full of HYPSMC rejects. (Just like Car...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Nah, there were people at Carleton who got into those school...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
That's not what I said. I know for a fact that Chicago is...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
You're wrong. Chicago is full of people who want an old-styl...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
...at least that's what they tell themselves after they get ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
No, you're wrong. I know these people and you don't. Unlike ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Hey wait! Aren't Joe's business partners from UC?
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Dude, didn't you get the memo? Joe used his Satanic powers t...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Satan wouldn't deal with Joe Caltech, because he's not impor...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
But he's important enough for students from the prestigious ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Well, I don't know them, though I think I've met one of them...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
You know what else is prestigious... THE FUCKING RHODES S...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
: )
marvelous library
  11/25/05
If Chicago's applicant pool self-selects for that type of pe...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Yield is tricky, and with EA and ED all over the place, pret...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
How about that whole "revealed preferences" survey...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Wait, so yield is meaningless but we should treat acceptance...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Don't forget that he says acceptance rate is ALSO meaningles...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I guess pensive's prestige rankings are based primarily on w...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
No, not so much. I don't have linear rankings for prestige i...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
So, what about the revealed preference rankings?
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I don't know that they apply to graduate programs. Undergrad...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
And yet, you didn't get into Harvard undergrad.
stirring stead
  11/25/05
And yet, we both know the exact reason why: I told the inter...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Except that you probably wouldn't have gotten in anyway. Aro...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I would have gotten in if I had said that I wanted to go. Th...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
But below you say it's just luck. And your numbers weren't a...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I went to USAMO 4 times. Once would be enough to pwn the med...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I'm just curious, did you do math counts?
naked mexican
  11/25/05
Yeah.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
How did you do? I finished near the top in my state but got ...
naked mexican
  11/25/05
You sound like a run-of-the-mill math geek. We all know your...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I'm amazed that he thinks this stuff is exceptional. I mean,...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
His book is an SAT prep book, you fucknut. That makes the fa...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
What novels have you published? Hell, what of *anything* ...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
None so far-- haven't had the time-- which is why if Joe Cal...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Hmm, let's see--what are the odds that you'd admit anything ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
If it actually were good, I'd be able to recognize this.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
He has dozens of accomplishments the entire rest of the worl...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Yup, just like you recognized PrepMe, recognized the Rhodes,...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
The Rhodes scholarship would be prestigious if it weren't fo...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I can't believe the enormous power and influence you accord ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Perhaps he hasn't done much damage to the image of the Rhode...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Wasn't there some Rhodes Scholar congressman who went to jai...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
PrepMe is worse than jail time for any nonviolent crime.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
You're a dumbass if you really believe that.
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  11/25/05
You're insane.
rambunctious aromatic mad-dog skullcap
  11/25/05
titcr. he has something called Narcissistic Personality D...
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
  11/25/05
Your new schtick is amusing.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Your old schtick isn't.
Buff aggressive ladyboy
  07/11/06
Same odds as pensive winning the Rhodes Scholarship, getting...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Um, I don't think that any of those are sure locks, but I co...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
But you've ACTUALLY done none. Zero. (And I seriously doubt ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
He would never, ever get the novel, which is the most presti...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
There are gazillions of novelists and maybe a thousand Rhode...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
A lot of those Rhodes Scholars are damn impressive. Joe Calt...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
You're a sad, sad individual.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
For taking pleasure in flamewars? I rather enjoy them. They'...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"The truth is that I really don't give a fuck either wa...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I was fucking drunk that night. I wouldn't have said it if I...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
In vino veritas. Clearly he's wedged himself into your mind,...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
When I'm on XO, I'm not in a good psychological state. When ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Scholastic Writing, National Gold Award. Twice. Suck my ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
You mean this? http://www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawa...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I didn't have enough time in college and afterward to write ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
No time in college? What the hell were you doing with your t...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I had time in college. The point is that to write a good nov...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Single-minded focus? You do realize that the vast majority o...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Yeah, but those are 40 hpw jobs, which are at the least more...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Being a student is as far from a 40 hour a week job as you c...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
That's very true, but there are other commitments as well. ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Google: "scholastic writing" "national gold a...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I can't believe you're using Google hits to prove a point. D...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Oh, you're right. Joe is probably planting "Rhodes Scho...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Come on pensive, are you *really* trying to argue that some ...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
The Rhodes lost all of its prestige when the scholarship was...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Many undergrads are very difficult to get into. Just not the...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Undergrad admission is a pure numbers game with a bit of luc...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"Undergrad admission is a pure numbers game" An...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Plenty of kids with 1600s get rejected from HYPSMC. (Not so ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Right, because those schools love to brag about how many 160...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I decided I'd just be more direct with you, as you rarely gr...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I doubt your latter claim. These schools reject the 1600s sp...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
And now it's everyone's favorite time: we ask pensive to pro...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I'm still waiting for him to explain away Chicago's performa...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
This is STRIKINGLY SIMILAR to his prestige rankings for wome...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
If it's all self selection, then why is it's yield so shitty...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I think you mean "low yield." It doesn't make sens...
naked mexican
  11/25/05
Thanks, I'll edit.
stirring stead
  11/25/05
"What does this matter, given that I went to Carleton f...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I'm actually telling the truth, you idiot. Some of us aren't...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
But you slam Joe mercilessly for thoughtlessly choosing a fi...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Actually, Joe Caltech's field (aerospace engineering) is qui...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
It's fucking rocket science, man.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
The difference is that people like Becca who turn down good ...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I didn't apply because I consider it wrong to apply to place...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Oh, bless your moral little heart. Why the Harvard app then?
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I applied before the visit that convinced me that I didn't w...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"Top-15 math departments have very low acceptance rates...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
So GTO, answer this, and you cannot say "the same"...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I'd have to go with Joe Caltech.
stirring stead
  11/25/05
You have set yourself up for a massive pwning by a superior ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Summering at a V5 isn't THAT special.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
That's not why he's prestigious. His superior intellect, cul...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Empty platitudes.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Considering that I'm the only person here who knows where 17...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
This is self-contradictory. You put 174 above yourself, but ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I'm not more prestigious than Joe.
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Yeah you are. You could still fuck up by doing something rea...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
you know what else has very low acceptance rates THE ...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
hahahahaha You're too good at this. I haven't seen him pw...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
no, i wish just giving credit where credit is due.
marvelous library
  11/25/05
you know what else [blank]... THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARS...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Why do you guys suck his dick so much? What has he done for ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Apparently he once took the time to give Jul. Shock some adv...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I'm disgusted that people think such a loser is prestigious,...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
So that's why you do the online equivalent of stalking the g...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
And the fact that you honestly believe that (and we know you...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
its really not hard to see why. he's jealous and intimi...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
Um, two good friends of mine-- 174 and Media Kid-- ran Joe C...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
board prestige is not the same as real life prestige. t...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
Well, 174 is maybe more of an acquaintance, but I have met M...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Are you subtly trying to claim that you are prestigious beca...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
No, that's not why I'm more prestigious than Joe Caltech. Hi...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
How is his entrepreneurship bunk? It's a real business and h...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
whatever GTO let it slide. some people are just psychot...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
PrepMe is *alright*, but Joe didn't do shit to start it, as ...
Swashbuckling cruise ship associate
  07/11/06
"and I could have a girlfriend if I lowered my standard...
soul-stirring business firm cuck
  07/11/06
I've spoken with 174 offboard and I'd be amazed if he really...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Hmm. It seems more likely to me that he left for Europe (at ...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
It's a fact. He left as soon as 174 and Media Kid mounted th...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Yeah, and him moving to Europe and having his business boom ...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Right, because they don't have any computer terminals in Eng...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
What exactly did they do that was so bad again?
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Are you trying to tell us that you turned down Harvard, MIT,...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I didn't apply to MIT, or Caltech, because at the time I was...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
And we all know how well-rounded you are today.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Quite well-rounded, actually.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Really. Do you pursue anything in athletics, or music, or fi...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I run, and lift weights occasionally but not as often as I s...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"I am accomplished in writing, game design, and mathema...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Yes, it would be better for me to get that book, but right n...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Wikipedia sure schooled you in the ways of the world, or gav...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
The Wikipedia community is a massive TTT full of fucked-up p...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"I only applied to Harvard because I was told I should,...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Yep. I said that I didn't want to go there, and got rejected...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"I said that I didn't want to go there..." I hi...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I said this on my interview, and that's what caused me to ge...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I believe you would have gotten dinged anyway. Unfortunately...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
You are wrong. I exceeded the median student at any undergra...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Yes, you exceeded them in academic merit on one subject: mat...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I took the SAT cold. I could have gotten much higher if I ha...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
You know what's more selective than HC and UW math PhD put t...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Statistically speaking, that's true.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"Well, this doesn't apply for the latter three (since t...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
YLS is uncertain for pretty much anyone, and it would be so ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
What about, oh, those four years at Carleton?
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I wasn't a prick then.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
hey mike, why'd you end up badmouthing for months the only g...
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
  11/25/05
Because the cunt didn't give me a chance. She was a horrid, ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
sounds like something a prick would do as far as i'm concern...
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
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You don't know this girl but she's a fucking awful person, I...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"You don't know this girl but she's a fucking awful per...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
I knew her for a lot longer. She guilt-tripped me into prete...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"More to the point, there was a different woman who *di...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
"YLS is uncertain for pretty much anyone, and it would ...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
"Okay, so what's stopping you from sending your resume ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"if i had" "im sure i could" rig...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
Particularly ironic since one of his main attacks on Joe's p...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
OK. Let's pretend here that you are extremely intelligent...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
I'm #1, thought I wouldn't call my accomplishments "inc...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
lets get cracking on these accomplishments. list them. ...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
What exactly have you accomplished other than Carleton UG an...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Actually, UW PhD is more selective than any undergrad. Anywa...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Really? a card game you say? well, i thought we were...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
"But just realize when someone has acheived more than y...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Let's phrase this in a Jeopordy question: Answer: 1,000...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
You know what's even more selective than any UW PhD program?...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
"Dude, Joe's business was on the fucking COVER of Fortu...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Way to dodge the entire point of the post.
stirring stead
  11/25/05
No, because we both know exactly how he got on the cover of ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Let me guess, he told the editor-in-chief she had nice shoes...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
It was clearly through some sort of sycophantry or bribery, ...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I'm not sure which is worse: pensive's self-aggrandizement o...
Concupiscible canary volcanic crater area
  11/25/05
The self-aggrandizement. Easily. This is almost cosmic. P...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I am not convinced that being a rabid apologist is ever an a...
Concupiscible canary volcanic crater area
  11/25/05
Fight fire with fire, I guess.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
"Technically I lost that subargument, but the fact that...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
The "multiple printings" were the result of strage...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"The "multiple printings" were the result of ...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
On publishing companies, I'm sure it only sold because of pr...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"On publishing companies, I'm sure it only sold because...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
"Seems like Joe is one crafty bastard, not only pulling...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Sarcasm is lost on this guy.
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
"It's the most embarrassing business in recent American...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
PrepMe is worse than Enron, though I admit that they're pret...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
What about the scores of other companies in the test prep ma...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Those at least don't have "PrepMe" as a name, whic...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
It's a stupid name, but less pretentious than something like...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
Yup, the "PrepMe" name has really hurt them! That'...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
its better than your company which is apparently "...
marvelous library
  11/25/05
don't forget ambition. it's sorta the analagous thing in mik...
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
  11/25/05
"mike has to wheedle and beg people to play ambition, a...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
"Wrong. Anyway, you've never met me and are talking out...
stirring stead
  11/25/05
Well, he exists to be bashed.
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
From this thread at least, it seems like you're alone in tha...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
I enjoy flamewars, and I really don't care about being bashe...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Ah, the excuse of last resort for pensive. From what I hear,...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/25/05
What are you talking about? Yeah, I got into some flamewa...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
I haven't started that company yet, and it needs a better na...
Copper Titillating Half-breed
  11/25/05
Haha, a much younger version of me posted in that thread. I ...
naked mexican
  11/24/05
You got some pretty detailed answers out of him. It's wei...
kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
  11/24/05
Actually he already applied to the PhD programs mentioned ea...
stirring stead
  11/24/05
pensive is an insecure douche. he's been doing the same thin...
Glittery school kitty cat
  04/27/06
ironically, that harvard girl actually won the writing award...
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
  04/27/06
Why don't you focus on something less specific than a Rhodes...
Insane Turdskin
  11/24/05
thats actually not at all of high importance for being a Rho...
Free-loading Chocolate Dysfunction Lay
  11/24/05
But there is nothing special about this poster based on her ...
Insane Turdskin
  11/24/05
I am only a sophomore. HTH!
Azure potus
  11/24/05
I agree with this. While there are lots of people who win t...
Cyan twisted preventive strike
  11/24/05
Harvard is out, Navy is in
Vermilion Demanding Doctorate Ticket Booth
  11/24/05
I want to study Health and Health Policy at Oxford, please h...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
you know, you can just apply there and do the program after ...
Cyan twisted preventive strike
  11/24/05
Yeah but being a rhodes scholar seems pretty damn prestigiou...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Hi everyone. So I am interested in AIDS/HIV but do not ha...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
if you're serious
filthy maroon knife
  11/24/05
Where do I look at other people's research projects though? ...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
Well, I combed through NSF, because they post their grant in...
filthy maroon knife
  11/24/05
I would like to do a research project on HIV/AIDS. Anthropol...
Azure potus
  11/24/05
But what about it? "Anthropology based" could mea...
filthy maroon knife
  11/24/05
Christ almighty. Do you have a science background or not? ...
bossy station
  11/25/05
get raped. (serious response)
Cyan twisted preventive strike
  11/24/05
There's nothing interesting that an individual can introduce...
bossy station
  11/24/05
don't go to harvard. they had 0 rhodes scholars this year.
costumed immigrant goyim
  11/24/05
H is a TTT in decline. Best in Asia though.
Charismatic jap heaven
  11/24/05
but they do have a scholastic award winner!
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
  04/27/06
Nice bump.
Bateful office puppy
  04/27/06
thank you
Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency
  04/27/06
oh wow, who bumped this thread? For an update, I'm right now...
Azure potus
  07/11/06
cool, I did my thesis on environmental policy in Southern Ta...
Jet-lagged walnut hell
  07/11/06
Oh really what did you do? What was your thesis for? Als...
Azure potus
  07/11/06
"what did you do?" Won't specify, but you may rea...
Jet-lagged walnut hell
  07/11/06
"Won't specify, but you may read about it soon." ...
Azure potus
  07/11/06
Why have you stopped posting under SilverBandCry! you worthl...
sick turquoise piazza
  07/11/06
I actually graduated summa, but nice try. I'm sorry you find...
Jet-lagged walnut hell
  07/11/06
It's nice that after such a long absence from the board you ...
Zippy hairy legs school cafeteria
  07/11/06
Aspiring trolls, take note: this thread produced two fully i...
Deranged magenta prole
  07/11/06
you only counted two?
Jet-lagged walnut hell
  07/11/06
Saltybabe dealt the initial blow and Pensive is more like an...
Deranged magenta prole
  07/11/06
it is like a pitri dish for flame amoebas.
appetizing corn cake reading party
  07/11/06
final goodbye to this thread and xoxo. maybe i'll post back ...
Azure potus
  07/11/06
By the time you are a physician studying hiv/aids xoxo will ...
Deranged magenta prole
  07/11/06
175
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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:36 PM
Author: Azure potus

What is required?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374158)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:38 PM
Author: naked mexican

Probably you should have been smart enough to get into a decent college out of high school.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374163)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:39 PM
Author: Azure potus



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374169)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:41 PM
Author: naked mexican

I was just being a cock, sorry. You'll do Ok.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374178)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:39 PM
Author: Pink church

3.8 GPA, decent athletic skills, and an ability to suck up that would put normal sycophants to shame

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374170)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:40 PM
Author: Azure potus

Athletic skills? :( I don't have that. Sucking up I can handle.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374172)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:40 PM
Author: Lascivious gaming laptop theatre

Sorry, the athletic part is in there to keep people like you out :(

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374175)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:42 PM
Author: Azure potus

Damn :(

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374184)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:41 PM
Author: Pink church

Good grasshopper, then you must train - you must reach a stage of uber-sycophantry that to others is only a vague rumor

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374180)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:43 PM
Author: Azure potus

Please guide me to the path.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374187)



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Date: April 27th, 2006 7:13 PM
Author: Stimulating Duck-like Theater

Clinton had athletic skillz?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#5666594)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 2:45 PM
Author: drab abusive whorehouse jew

He talks about this in his autobiography.

He says this is why he chose to apply out of whatever region arkansas is in than out of where gtwon is.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187138)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:52 PM
Author: Cyan twisted preventive strike

high grades. some research would be good, especially if you're going to a state school where 20 people (or more) graduate with a 3.95+ every year. something that shows that you've got more smarts than someone who just studies and takes shit classes. "athletic vigor" is a plus, don't have to play D-1 ball, but doing IM sports can help. other than that being well rounded and involved. be a slef-starter show that you put skins on the wall.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374205)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:53 PM
Author: Azure potus

thanks, look at my "rate my extracurriculars thread" and tell what you think. I am now a sophomore.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374212)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:55 PM
Author: Pink church

that looks like a good start. seriously

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374222)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:56 PM
Author: Cyan twisted preventive strike

not bad. whlie you have a very good gpa (in a tough major) remember that you're going to be up against people with 4.0 gpas at Yale, Duke, Army/Navy, etc (look at this years bios). hit the books and bust out some 4.0 semesters.

try to get some leadership experience and start some shit that looks good (organizations, business, etc.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374226)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:01 PM
Author: Azure potus

What sort of organizations or businesses do I have to start? I already founded two organizations (HIV/AIDS)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374245)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:03 PM
Author: Cyan twisted preventive strike

yeah, that's good. I'd suggest some diversity in your interests/things you start and playing an IM sport.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374257)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:50 PM
Author: jet point skinny woman

Create organizations that aren't "connected" to anything. Anyone can be a taskman. You have to show that you have some vision. So take initiative, find something you really want to change, and try your best to do it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376121)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:52 PM
Author: Azure potus

Please refer to my "rate my extracurriculars" thread offer me some suggestions to improve upon my EC's.

Thanks!!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374206)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:53 PM
Author: Free-loading Chocolate Dysfunction Lay

you need an interesting personality and a good presence. i made it to the second round of the competition.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374210)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:53 PM
Author: Azure potus

please look at my rate my extracurriculars thread and tell me what you think i could do to improve my EC's. Thank you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374215)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:54 PM
Author: Free-loading Chocolate Dysfunction Lay

here's my tip: learn how to converse

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374217)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:03 PM
Author: Azure potus

I will get to that eventually! I hope! :)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374255)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:54 PM
Author: Insane Turdskin

Why are you so insecure? You're clearly on a path of self-hatred and boredom.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374219)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:58 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

False. Ever hear of Joe Caltech? He's worse with people than most diagnosed autistics, and his personality is defective, and he got one.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374491)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:21 PM
Author: naked mexican

How the fuck would you know how Joe's people skills are? He's got plenty of friends and has had actual relationships with females.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374555)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:27 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I'm sure he makes up his "plenty of friends", or they are losers like he is. As for his girlfriends, well... anyone can get a girlfriend if he lowers his standards enough, so I'm not impressed by this, either.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374571)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:34 PM
Author: naked mexican

No, you don't get it. He, like you, is "out." We know he's Joseph Jewell of Caltech, Michigan, and Oxford, just like we know you're Mike Church of Carleton and Wisconsin. That means his claims one way or another can be proved. I personally know people at Caltech who knew Joe, (although they're a bit younger) he hasn't "made up" anything about having friends/girlfriends. That's verifiable. And I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't mind being a "loser like him," considering he's got an incredible list of credentials. Don't break out your tired shit about PrepMe sucking and the Rhodes being a TTT. If Joe sucks so much, how come he consistently fools the objectively most prestigious institutions in the world into recognizing him... including graduate schools that wouldn't have given you a second glance? How come you're the only one that's got him figured out?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374591)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:50 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Never tempt a man with quicker wit.

I never said that the Rhodes was a TTT. Historically, it has been a prestigious scholarship, but there are anecdotal reports of losers receiving them, and proof of at least one: Joe Caltech. PrepMe, of course, is a loser-fucker company designed to help rich loser-fuckers get into top schools at the expense of poorer, more worthy students. Simply put, it's a classist pogrom against the American poor.

"including graduate schools that wouldn't have given you a second glance"

Such as? I won't hold my breath; I know you won't be able to come up with any. To support your point, it is true that I wouldn't have gotten into top engineering departments, only because I didn't take any engineering classes at all during undergrad, but the same goes in reverse. I honestly don't know how to compare math vs. engineering for overall prestige, but I'm pretty sure Joe wouldn't have gotten into a top 25 math department, ever, but especially not now, after the Michael Lohman incident, since surely departments are more worried about "that type" than they were before.

I'm NOT the only one who's got this loser-fucker figured out? Ever hear of 174? He's way more prestigious (as am I) than anyone who has ever defended Joe Caltech.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374678)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:53 PM
Author: sick turquoise piazza

From everything you've posted and the insights about you from Carleton folks, you're much closer to the "Lohman type" than Joe is.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374687)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:54 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

How so?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374689)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:58 PM
Author: sick turquoise piazza

You were a social pariah at Carleton and have serious problems gauging your place in society. (Your insane ramblings about "high-end dating", relative prestige, and endless denigration of PrepMe are evidence of this.) That doesn't sound too different from a guy who collects hair clippings from Asian girls and puts ejaculate in their drinks. The women of Madison should be very cautious now that you're in town.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374725)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:04 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I wasn't a social pariah. I was the slander target of a few loser-fuckers and it had an impact on my social life, but I did have friends, I went out and did stuff, and I managed to have some good social experiences in spite of the L-F's. I had an amazing girlfriend (gorgeous, extremely smart) for a short time; she broke up for reasons external to us (her previous relationship was dying; she broke up with me to get back together with him so he wouldn't kill himself). I had another chance to date someone amazing, but I wasn't ready for her on account of the previous relationship, from which it took me months to recover.

My reference to "high-end dating" was not an "insane rambling"; several posters agreed with me on it, you idiot. On PrepMe, it's only among the most unprestigious businesses in existence, that's all; other than that, I guess I have no problem with it.

Somehow, I don't see how any of this connects to Lohman, at all. Diagnosis: you're an idiot.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374770)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:25 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Also, he was a math PhD student, like you. You've said yourself they're unique people. I'm surprised that the obvious has escaped you.

Engineers in general are much more even-tempered.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376852)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:05 PM
Author: naked mexican

I'm just saying that Joe got into every graduate program he applied to, including Caltech, MIT, Princeton, etc. I don't know the rest off the top of my head. I don't know how math and engineering compare either, but I'm assuming math is slightly more competitive and prestigious, especially pure math - that said, Joe was accepted to the best programs in his field. You, if I'm not mistaken, were not.

I know 174 doesn't like Joe, but I don't think he's nearly as down on him as you. I could be wrong.

I'm not attempting to get into a fight with you, today is a day of peace and love. I think your claim of being quicker witted can be debated, however. There's no need to bring personal attacks into this, that wasn't what I was going for... I'm trying to leave anything that could be construed as an assault on you out of this. I'm just sick of you talking down on Joe. He's a decent guy.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374777)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:16 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"I'm assuming math is slightly more competitive and prestigious, especially pure math - that said, Joe was accepted to the best programs in his field. You, if I'm not mistaken, were not."

Objectively, I'd have to say that Joe did quite well for himself in terms of graduate admissions. In truth, there isn't much debate about that. Now, Master's programs are generally much less selective than PhD programs, though I suspect that M. Eng. is more selective than most MA, MS programs. I do believe that engineering programs are much, much larger than math PhD programs, though I could be wrong. The comparison is pretty much impossible to make, because the departments are looking for different things, and one needs to prepare in order to get admitted to either. (E.g. I wouldn't be able to get into an engineering program, but not because I'm not smart enough.)

"I'm just sick of you talking down on Joe. He's a decent guy."

There is a reason I dislike him. He may be a decent guy in real life, but during the spring he used to come on here and pick the most idiotic fights, and he wouldn't let up. He also was friends with some of my real-life enemies, and took some slanderous shit he had heard from them onto the board. So I dislike him for some very good reasons, and I wouldn't be attacking him so viciously if those reasons weren't there; what motivations would I have? The insinuation that I attack him because of "jealousy" is absurd; there are plenty of people in the world more accomplished than I am, and I admire, rather than denigrate, them. Joe Caltech is a belligerent prick, and he's not even all that accomplished, definitely not moreso than I am.

There are probably as many people who think I'm a jerk online as there are for him, but in my case, the reason I'm such an asshole on the Internet is so I *can* be a nice guy in real life, because I have to put the negative energy somewhere and I'd rather it be with strangers than people I care about.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374828)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:20 PM
Author: naked mexican

I can accept pretty much everything you say. It just seems a bit weird that you continue posting negative stuff about Joe after he's pretty much left the board... that said, I can understand the need to vent on the board, and it's probably better than you do so on someone who isn't even here to be bothered by it (although I guess he was bothered enough to come back and make that thread about you.)

Happy Thanksgiving, by the way. Did you do anything fun?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374853)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:35 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

That's the schtick part of it. Off the board, I don't care about Joe Caltech at all. I did once tell someone who knows him IRL that he's "a huge cocksucker" (I was drunk; it's not something I'd say to one of his acquaintances otherwise) last summer, but other than that, I don't care about him. It fits the pensive schtick to attack him at every opportunity.

On venting, I don't know if this is the best way of handling things, but it'll have to do. I create a lot of false selves ("schticks") for a mixture of amusement and self-obscurement; one of them is pensive, a prestige-obsessed parody of my 19-year-old self. Most often, I only deploy these false selves online, but occasionally when I'm inebriated they emerge.

Thanksgiving... all my friends left town, and for various reasons I could not this weekend, so yeah, it kind of sucks. I'm planning on heading out to a nice Indian place tonight, though. I did go to an early Thanksgiving dinner with a couple friends last week.

It's really bad. I've basically slipped away from everyone and everything. I can't blame it on graduate school or the lifestyle (the lifestyle isn't great, but not terrible either) but it's just the fact that I've become sluggish, depressed, and mournful. I've started to realize that I've let too much of life pass me by, and that I'm probably only a couple years from the point where, if I don't develop the ability to find and keep girlfriends by then, I'll have to give up and do evil shit to amuse myself. It's a horrifying prospect, but one I must consider.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374949)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:45 PM
Author: naked mexican

That sucks. I'm stuck on campus myself -- fortunately my roomie is here and we'll probably do a little pointless drinking and maybe watch a movie, but it's a far cry from spending time at home with my extended family.

I would suggest you start working out, if you don't already. It really helps keep you focused and feeling more involved in your own life. Not, of course, that you need to get all Joe_Vag, but running or something would probably help you feel better and give you more energy.

I know I'm not always the kindest to you, but it's mostly because I don't really like your shtick and think it's pretty annoying. I hope your relationship stuff does work out and I'm confident that if you work at it, it will. It's definitely possible to find quality women... honestly, man, I think you might be scared/hesitant because you don't have much relationship experience compared to other people your age. It's not going to get any better as you get older, start now. Get out there and meet people. Get those "6 prospects" you want, then get busy with one of them. Once you break through, you'll do well. Just don't fall into the trap of thinking you need to find the perfect woman to date. Sure you want a perfect woman to marry, but that doesn't have to be now. The more you date the more comfortable you'll get and the more likely you'll be to be attractive to the perfect woman once you do find her.

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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:10 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yeah, I agree on what you say re Thanksgiving. Around October, something seemingly big happened that put me into a pretty deep state of gloom, and the only way I could complete my work was to withdraw from pretty much all social contact. So now I'm much less integrated into social life at my department, but it's basically my fault. I don't even know who's in town. In retrospect, what happened in Oct. was a blip, but it seemed major at the time.

Working out: when I can, I try to run 3-4 mi per day, but my schedule sucks this semester. My T/Th are overloaded and I'm basically doing something nonstop from 7 to 5, aside from a 45-minute lunch break. That, and it's dark after 5 pm, and I prefer to run in daylight.

My schtick is a mixed bag; I probably would find it annoying if I weren't running it, and I think it's probably outlived its usefulness on xoxo. Moreover, I'm not in the right mood for schtick anymore. The prestige obsession is ridiculous; when I actually was "prestigious" I didn't care about relative status or any of that shit, because I was too driven. Until 16 I was super-driven, a contest-math gunner who spent lots of time preparing for these contests, but then I realized that in spite of it all, I was unsuccessful with women and getting increasingly unhappy with age... and I lost that drive. I've gone up and down, from having no motivation at all to being about 75% as driven as I was in high school, but I've never been back up to that level, and I won't be until I can fix this pesky women problem because it's so fucking depressing. There is nothing seriously wrong with me except a previous pattern of failure (and various derivative complications) but it is a pattern that cannot be escaped, because women are unforgiving and irrational.

On relationships, the "6 prospects" was an exaggeration. I find it impossible to act "normal" though if I don't have many prospects, because then I have too much banking on one woman and it's bound to scare her away. In any case, yeah the relationship inexperience sucks and women are pretty unforgiving. I've considered creating a "new past" that is a wildly liberal interpretation of my real one (counting a grey case as a girlfriend, lengthening the 6 days of the other girlfriend to 3 months), living as if it were true (to build confidence) and taking comfort in the fact that most people will never find out otherwise.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375243)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:15 PM
Author: naked mexican

Creating a new past might work for you (at least it would be a confidence builder.) You'll be OK. Just work through this gloomy period, once it passes you'll be in much better shape. Ups and downs and all that.

Anyway, I have to go, but I want to wish you good luck. You'll be all right.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375276)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:17 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Thanks. Good luck to you, too. Happy Thanksgiving.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375286)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:19 PM
Author: clear cracking base gay wizard

Dude, chill out. Why are you so anxious to get into a relationship? Like all your posts are about attracting women and it's kind of annoying. A lot of guys ask me out, but I am much more happy just being single and going out with my friends. I've been in my share of relationships (well actually they were all Pseudo-Relationships, lol) and you should enjoy being single! You get to go out with friends more often, party and drink too much, attempt to fall asleep under trees while someone tries to carry you home, dance on some tables, etc. It's all good fun.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375298)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:22 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

It's possible to enjoy being single. It's not possible to enjoy being 22 without ever having had an actual relationship (the fling I had at one point doesn't count, in my mind, because she was a horrible person and committed to some other guy). It's one of those things that is so fucking depressing that a person cannot get away from it. I would have a great life if not for that one thing, but that one thing is so fucking depressing I can't even concentrate.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375310)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:26 PM
Author: clear cracking base gay wizard

One fling? Just move on already and don't dwell on it. In the meanwhile, go out with some friends, maybe get trashed and do something crazy. I almost asleep under a tree in Harlem at 3 in the morning last week! And stop focusing all your attention on women and relationships!! You have pretty much your whole life for that, lol.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375321)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:31 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I'm in grad school; we don't get trashed, we don't do "crazy" things. It's quite an ascetic lifestyle and maybe not the best for me at this time of life.

I don't have my "whole life" to develop basic romantic partnership skills; if I haven't done so by 25, I'm fucked. You're a woman, so you have no concept of how hard it is to be a man, but we basically have to do all the work of finding and initiating relationships: approaching, asking out, first kiss, et cetera. Women get to just sit back, look pretty, and take half the credit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375334)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:39 PM
Author: marvelous library

Ok. I don't really know who Joe Caltech, you, or 174 are

but I can tell you that in terms of prestige, for someone UNDER 25:

Rhodes Scholar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> EVERYONE ELSE

Always

Always

Always

go memorize it.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375376)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:45 PM
Author: clear cracking base gay wizard

lol, yeah I think I wanted to be Rhodes Scholar when I was little kid. I have a high GPA but I am such a fucking slacker. At least I still have the goal of becoming a neurosurgeon or a neurologist! ;)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375396)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:02 PM
Author: marvelous library

my sister wanted to be a neurosurgeon

i think she changed to oncology though

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375493)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:47 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

That's really not true anymore. Maybe it was at one time, but the general consensus among elite circles (compared to lower-middle class XO speculation):

1. You don't need to go to HYP, but you should go somewhere that is good-- an Ivy, top 15 LAC, or a uni with formidable research programs. Princeton is the best of HYP.

2. If you went to a lower-calibre undergrad, you can make up for it through extensive self-study and erudition.

3. The major international fellowships (Rhodes, et al) have declined in selectivity over the past decade or so, though they're still quite respectable.

In any case, I never applied for the RS and I probably won't, because it would interrupt my graduate study. If Joe Caltech got one, though, I'd have a damn good shot at it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375409)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:49 PM
Author: clear cracking base gay wizard

Also, you should probably stop talking about prestige and thinks like the "general consensus among elite circles (compared to lower-middle class XO speculation)" if you want to "improve" upon yourself and have better luck with women.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375418)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:58 PM
Author: marvelous library

You would have NO SHOT EVER, so lets clear that up to begin with.

My partner for one of my papers was one of the 32. He had excellent grades (and a much heavier courseload than me) and ridiculous extracurriculars. The Rhodes blurb mentioned like 1/3 of them.

truly prestigious.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375459)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:02 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

You are wrong, and you can suck my cock, so let's clear that up to begin with.

If Joe Caltech was able to get one, then it wouldn't be difficult for me since I am by all accounts more impressive. If he hadn't gotten one, I would probably suspect that my chances would be relatively low.

That said, it sounds like your friend is pretty damn prestigious. Kudos to him.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375490)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:07 PM
Author: marvelous library

the rhodes is one of the ultimate arbiters of prestige.

and yes they like to take people crappy schools, and they always take some military kids so its skewed, but really...

it just is. don't try to deny it.

you can never be more prestigious than this CalTech guy because he has one. (at least in the next decade. the rhodes, like everything else, has a shelf life.)



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375512)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:12 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

You see, it's really not. Yes, the Rhodes Scholarship is neat and a lot of impressive people end up getting them, but it's not the "ultimate arbiter" of anything other than who gets to study in England.

I am already more prestigious than he is, though that's not saying much, and in truth I'm not terribly prestigious.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375537)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:13 PM
Author: marvelous library

Oiy.

this argument is getting truly circular.

where do you go to grad school? what are you studying?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375542)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:19 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Yeah, he needs to hear that, over and over and over.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375974)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:24 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Why would anyone need to hear something that's not true?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375999)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:41 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Everyone else on this thread seems to disagree with you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376078)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:43 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I am smarter than a lot of people here and it is by this fact proven.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376087)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:43 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Circular. And retarded.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376090)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:48 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Wow. You managed to describe the shape of your penis and your future progeny in three words. I'm impressed.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376110)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:49 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I guess they'll be paying their own way through master's programs, then.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376119)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:44 PM
Author: sick turquoise piazza

Don't forget: 174, who is more prestigious than you, or anyone else here doesn't like Joe either!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376095)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:44 PM
Author: clear cracking base gay wizard

You're 22! You should not have an ascetic lifestyle! In fact, that is probably what is making you more depressed than the fact that do you do not have a girlfriend.

Go out with some friends. I am sure that you can find out graduate students who like to have fun. I know have met some crazy grad students here--some that were even my TA's!

Also, don't worry about the future. Who's knows what will happen when you are 25? Just think about the present. If you meet someone who like that's good that's good, if not don't worry about it. It's nothing to obsess over.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375392)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:50 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"You're 22! You should not have an ascetic lifestyle!"

I would agree, but it's necessary in order to get where I want to be in life. First-year graduate school is rough, but it gets better in later years. (One is able to find lucrative summer jobs, the workload drops off, and one has more of a social life.)

"I am sure that you can find out graduate students who like to have fun. I know have met some crazy grad students here--some that were even my TA's!"

It's really tough, especially in the first year, to meet graduate students in other departments. I didn't believe other people who told me this going in, but it's really quite true. It's not like college where one ends up meeting all sorts of interesting people in a wide range of disciplines.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375422)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:54 PM
Author: clear cracking base gay wizard

Well then just focus on your schoolwork. But also try to make friends.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375439)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:00 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I do what I can. Right now I feel completely hemmed-in by context, and I'm used to being the kind of person with the capacity to define his context, rather than the other way around.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375475)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 10:57 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"Now, Master's programs are generally much less selective than PhD programs...."

Master's programs? Huh? I'm pretty sure Joe applied to PhD programs. Master's programs usually aren't even funded. And doesn't he want to be a prof? I know there were threads back when he was applying to schools (which is how people know he got in everywhere he applied in the first place). I'm sure there must be some on the grad board.

Nice try.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375851)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:14 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

He does want to be a prof, and I believe that he's going to be applying for PhD programs after coming back to the US. We'll see how he does then.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375954)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:20 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

So he was willing to pay his own way at a grad program? I've never ever heard of anyone doing that, from a top school, at least in a technical subject.

P.S. If they took him before he was a Rhodes Scholar, the odds that they'll reject him after don't seem very high.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375980)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:38 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse
Subject: Nothing a little searching won't turn up...

Joe (Caltech '04) arrives

PWNED, dude.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376061)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:40 PM
Author: sick turquoise piazza

Good job digging up the evidence. Anyone who thought Joe paid for his year at Michigan is an imbecile.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376077)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:42 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Oh well.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376085)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:43 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Hahahahahaha! Pensive is speechless!

Your point has just been demolished and "oh well" is the best you can do. Hilarious.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376088)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:53 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Technically I lost that subargument, but the fact that Joe Caltech is a loser with a TTT cow-fuck business still stands, so I don't much care.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376130)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:58 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

And the fact that he got into PhD programs at schools that rejected you or weren't even realistic enough for you to merit an app still stands, too.

Hey, aren't you on a teaching assistantship yourself?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376156)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:02 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yes, but I could have gotten into them for other departments than math, which is highly selective. Like I said, I don't know how many students engineering programs take.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376175)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:09 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Yes, but I could have gotten into them for other departments than math, which is highly selective."

Okay, I'll bite, what PhD departments would you have gotten into at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, CalTech, etc. if you had bothered to apply?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376222)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:15 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Well, this doesn't apply for the latter three (since the programs don't exist) but law: I'm pretty confident that, given what I can do on the Putnam, I'd be able to crack 175 on the LSAT, which would get me in anywhere I wanted to go.

I could get into the top business schools by getting in through investment banking or consulting.

As for academic PhDs, it's much tougher to say because I didn't prepare for those disciplines in undergrad, every department is different and I don't know what they all want.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376254)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:22 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Law isn't a PhD program.

You make it too easy, Mike...

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376295)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:27 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

No, it's not. I must have misread GTO's post, actually, because I remembered seeing "graduate" instead of "PhD". Maybe I read too fast.

PhD admissions are very unpredictable in general, but it's known that math and physics are among the most selective, so if I had prepared for them in my undergrad, I'm sure I could have done well, as far as admissions goes, in many disciplines.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376333)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:32 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

All conjecture.

As it stands, Joe has real results (you're big on things being "real" aren't you?) and you don't. In fact, what you have is a pile of real rejections from real schools that Joe really got into.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376362)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:36 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Um, you don't get rejected or accepted at a graduate school, but a department. We were applying to different departments.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376389)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:40 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

And he got into basically the top 5 or 6 PhD programs in his field. Right down the line, in fact.

You didn't.

(The fact that many of the top schools for aerospace are also top math schools that rejected you just must make it sting even more.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376416)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:44 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

How big were those programs? Math PhD programs are tiny. There just isn't much of a market for pure math, so the programs are really small.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376450)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:50 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

And thus I'd imagine not many people apply either.

How the fuck should I know how big those programs are? Why don't you look that up, if you're going to hang your hat on it?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376492)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:52 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Top-15 math departments have very low acceptance rates, often in the single digits, and for every person who does apply, there are many who would if they had a chance.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376505)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:54 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Back that up, or it's worthless (god knows much of what you post is objectively worthless).

In particular, let's see you cite some acceptance rates, math versus aerospace.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376533)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:56 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Departments generally don't publish them, and USNews doesn't either, so the data is pretty sketchy. However, this debate has been held on this forum in the past, so look up the threads yourself.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376548)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:57 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"However, this debate has been held on this forum in the past, so look up the threads yourself."

Yeah, and the "debate" has consisted entirely of you asserting what you just asserted above without even a shred of evidence, and other people telling you that your opinion doesn't yet count as fact.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376562)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:58 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

No. This is not true. I just don't care enough to find the threads, because you're an idiotic cocksucker anyway and it would be a waste of time to try to convince you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376573)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:00 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I found the thread that disproved your assertion, quite handily, in fact.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376592)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:01 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Post it, then.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376597)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:01 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I want to be a Rhodes Scholar

pwned. I backed up my assertion; you didn't. It's as simple as that.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376602)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:58 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I know some acceptance rates we COULD look up. How about acceptance rates for Caltech and MIT undergrad versus Carleton undergrad?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376568)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:59 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

What does this matter, given that I went to Carleton for location and educational model rather than status on some stupid message board, and could have gotten into more selective schools?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376585)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:01 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"could have" but didn't. How'd that Harvard app turn out for ya, Mr. Well-Rounded?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376598)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:03 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Nah, I got into Chicago, and only wrote 3 applications. Harvard: I would have gotten in if not for being an idiot and saying I didn't want to go there.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376618)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:07 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Nah, I got into Chicago"

Along with half the other people who applied. Chicago undergrad is probably the last place you should be bragging about getting into, it's hard to think of any US News Tier 1 school that's less selective.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376651)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:09 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Actually, it's highly selective. The reason for the high acceptance rate is that so few people even know of it as a prestigious school. (Most people you grew up with, GTO, probably thought it was a state school. The people I grew up with know about UC and respect it highly.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376676)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:09 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

It's absolutely chock-full of HYPSMC rejects. (Just like Carleton and lib arts colleges in general, as well.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376684)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:11 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Nah, there were people at Carleton who got into those schools, and others who could have.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376696)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:11 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

That's not what I said.

I know for a fact that Chicago is full of Ivy wannabes.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376705)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:14 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

You're wrong. Chicago is full of people who want an old-style, true academic experience which is no longer found at most universities.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376733)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:15 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

...at least that's what they tell themselves after they get rejected from their top choices.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376750)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:17 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

No, you're wrong. I know these people and you don't. Unlike you, I actually know a diverse array of people from all kinds of educational backgrounds.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376770)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:18 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Hey wait! Aren't Joe's business partners from UC?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376778)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:23 AM
Author: stirring stead

Dude, didn't you get the memo? Joe used his Satanic powers to convince his business partners that he's a good guy, even though we all know he's Satan himself.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376831)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:25 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Satan wouldn't deal with Joe Caltech, because he's not important enough. HTH

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376854)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:27 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

But he's important enough for students from the prestigious University of Chicago!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376870)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:28 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Well, I don't know them, though I think I've met one of them. Anyway, not every student at a prestigious university is prestigious. Case in point: Caltech is pretty damn prestigious.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376886)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:29 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

You know what else is prestigious...

THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

(credit to asdf)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376892)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:34 AM
Author: marvelous library

: )



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376935)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:16 AM
Author: stirring stead

If Chicago's applicant pool self-selects for that type of person, then why is its yield so abysmally low? Every other school with a real self selection issue has a high yield that goes along with the higher acceptance rate.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376757)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:19 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yield is tricky, and with EA and ED all over the place, pretty much meaningless.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376795)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:20 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

How about that whole "revealed preferences" survey? Nice and scientific, with results that just plain feel right.

1 Harvard 2800

2 Yale 2738

3 Stanford 2694

4 Cal Tech 2632

5 MIT 2624

6 Princeton 2608

...

27 U Chicago 2104

...

34 Carleton 2022

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376802)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:26 AM
Author: stirring stead

Wait, so yield is meaningless but we should treat acceptance rates as gospel when determining whether math PhD departments are more selective than engineering PhD departments?

Oh wait, it's just another example of you not using a statistic because it doesn't help you... just like you said we should disregard Chicago's acceptance rate because of "self-selection."

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376859)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:27 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Don't forget that he says acceptance rate is ALSO meaningless for undergrad schools.

And also that he doesn't have any actual evidence or numbers of any kind to back up his "math PhD programs have low acceptance rates" thing in the first place.

And how about that Revealed Preferences survey?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376874)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:32 AM
Author: stirring stead

I guess pensive's prestige rankings are based primarily on whether the school accepted him.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376921)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:34 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

No, not so much. I don't have linear rankings for prestige in undergrad or grad, but I consider MIT, Chicago and Harvard's math departments highly prestigious, and they rejected me.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376938)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:36 AM
Author: stirring stead

So, what about the revealed preference rankings?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376949)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:41 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I don't know that they apply to graduate programs. Undergrad "prestige" is meaningless since no undergrad is difficult to get into.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376986)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:42 AM
Author: stirring stead

And yet, you didn't get into Harvard undergrad.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376990)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:45 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

And yet, we both know the exact reason why: I told the interviewer I didn't want to go, a terrible decision.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377017)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:48 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Except that you probably wouldn't have gotten in anyway. Around 90% of people who tell the interviewer they'd LOVE to go to Harvard still don't get in.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377039)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:49 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I would have gotten in if I had said that I wanted to go. That is a fact. I had the numbers, ECs, and whole package, and pwned every "applicant desirability" formula used.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377051)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:51 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

But below you say it's just luck. And your numbers weren't at the top, either.

You've not mentioned your high school ECs before. I invite you to list them here now.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377063)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:56 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I went to USAMO 4 times. Once would be enough to pwn the median student at any undergrad.

My numbers were so-so (1510/#2) mainly because I took the SATs cold and only once. Getting a 1600 wasn't a priority for me. ECs: Besides math contests, I had national writing awards, quiz bowl accomplishments, and community involvement. I was well above-average but not outstanding, as far as ECs go, compared to median students at the top undergrads.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377097)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:58 AM
Author: naked mexican

I'm just curious, did you do math counts?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377124)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:00 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yeah.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377137)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:03 AM
Author: naked mexican

How did you do? I finished near the top in my state but got PWN3D later on.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377173)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:08 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

You sound like a run-of-the-mill math geek. We all know your "writing" accomplishments are complete bullshit, colleges don't give a rat's ass about quiz bowl, and every single goddamn applicant has "community involvement" (give me a break).

USAMO is a legitimately good activity, but 250 people do USAMO every single year, and many more do the equivalent in other countries. MOST of the US students and many of the foreigners apply to Harvard (and most probably manage better than a 1510, too, at least the native English speakers). This is not something unusual for Harvard, and is not an auto-admit by any means. Harvard picks a class of 1500 each year. They don't have room for 250+ people whose only real strength is math stuff.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377224)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:10 AM
Author: stirring stead

I'm amazed that he thinks this stuff is exceptional. I mean, down below he was citing being published in his college newspaper as a real accomplishment... and yet he claims that Joe's actual published book and Rhodes scholarship are meaningless.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377243)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:11 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

His book is an SAT prep book, you fucknut. That makes the fact of his being published meaningless. If this were a novel, then it'd be different. We wouldn't be having this argument in that case, because I'd admit him to be prestigious.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377258)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:12 AM
Author: stirring stead

What novels have you published?

Hell, what of *anything* have you published, in something that isn't the publishing equivalent of open admissions (so college newspapers, online gaming magazines, etc. don't count).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377269)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:14 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

None so far-- haven't had the time-- which is why if Joe Caltech had one, and a good one, he'd be more prestigious than I am. However, he doesn't have the writing skills to make a good novel, so I'm not worried about this.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377284)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:20 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Hmm, let's see--what are the odds that you'd admit anything Joe Caltech wrote was "good"?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377336)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:21 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

If it actually were good, I'd be able to recognize this.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377347)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:23 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

He has dozens of accomplishments the entire rest of the world recognizes as "actually good," but you don't admit them. I choose to believe the pattern would continue.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377362)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:24 AM
Author: stirring stead

Yup, just like you recognized PrepMe, recognized the Rhodes, recognized his book, etc.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377369)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:26 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

The Rhodes scholarship would be prestigious if it weren't for the fact that the award of it to someone so underaccomplished weren't, effectively, shitting on the entire concept of the scholarship.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377392)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:28 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I can't believe the enormous power and influence you accord this guy. His mere acquisition of an award changes its entire perception?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377404)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:30 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Perhaps he hasn't done much damage to the image of the Rhodes Scholarship yet, but give him time and the capacity, and he will.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377417)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:32 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Wasn't there some Rhodes Scholar congressman who went to jail over some scandal? What exactly is Joe going to do that's more offensive than that? Make a pile of money selling a business you don't consider that cool?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377430)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:37 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

PrepMe is worse than jail time for any nonviolent crime.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377460)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:37 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

You're a dumbass if you really believe that.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377465)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 7:16 PM
Author: rambunctious aromatic mad-dog skullcap

You're insane.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4381069)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 9:47 PM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

titcr.

he has something called Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382369)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:19 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Your new schtick is amusing.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382755)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:16 PM
Author: Buff aggressive ladyboy

Your old schtick isn't.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187769)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:23 AM
Author: stirring stead

Same odds as pensive winning the Rhodes Scholarship, getting hired by McKinsey, getting into Yale Law, getting a novel published, or having a relationship that lasts longer than six days.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377361)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:25 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Um, I don't think that any of those are sure locks, but I could easily pull off at least 3 of those 5, with near 100% confidence.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377384)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:31 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

But you've ACTUALLY done none. Zero. (And I seriously doubt your ability to do any of them other than maintain a relationship--I think that WILL happen, eventually, but only after your attitude has changed.)

Joe's already done 2, by my count, done the rough equivalent of a 3rd, would be an absolute lock for the 4th if he wanted it, and given his aptitude for standardized tests and other generally sterling credentials, would likely have little trouble with the 5th, either.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377419)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:34 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

He would never, ever get the novel, which is the most prestigious of the above.

Anyway, I don't spend my life trying to get XO accolades, which is why I haven't done any of those. Maybe at some point I will. Off the board, I generally don't care about anything related to XO.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377438)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:34 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

There are gazillions of novelists and maybe a thousand Rhodes Scholars, quite a few of whom have written several books each, I'd imagine.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377444)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:38 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

A lot of those Rhodes Scholars are damn impressive. Joe Caltech isn't.

Haha. I've gotten you fuckers to flame with me for 300+ posts. Haven't you figured out yet that I only care about the numbers? It glorifies my ego either way. PWN3D.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377469)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:40 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

You're a sad, sad individual.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377480)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:43 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

For taking pleasure in flamewars? I rather enjoy them. They're a great way to dispel negative energy.

The truth is that I really don't give a fuck either way about Joe Caltech. But if I can amuse myself and others by trashing him on an Internet message board, then isn't it all in good fun? It's been a pleasure flaming with you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377497)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:45 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"The truth is that I really don't give a fuck either way about Joe Caltech."

Hmm. I don't think you'd tell his real-life buddies he's "a huge cocksucker" then.

His mere existence clearly eats at you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377516)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:51 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I was fucking drunk that night. I wouldn't have said it if I were sober.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377544)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:52 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

In vino veritas. Clearly he's wedged himself into your mind, or else he wouldn't be your topic of choice when you get on the internet to vent.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377547)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 3:02 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

When I'm on XO, I'm not in a good psychological state. When I am, I avoid this place.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377612)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:10 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Scholastic Writing, National Gold Award. Twice.

Suck my cock, bitch.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377248)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:16 AM
Author: stirring stead

You mean this?

http://www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/index.htm

Can't even cite something you won after graduating high school?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377296)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:23 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I didn't have enough time in college and afterward to write competitively, or to seriously consider aiming at publishing something substantial. Writing a novel takes much more effort than some SAT-prep clown outfit, and I just haven't had the time yet. I'd like to, some day.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377364)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:25 AM
Author: stirring stead

No time in college? What the hell were you doing with your time? It's not like you majored in science or engineering or something that would require tons of out of class time (and even Joe found the time to start a business and do various other cool things despite his time intensive major).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377387)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:27 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I had time in college. The point is that to write a good novel takes A LOT of time, and single-minded focus, too.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377399)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:30 AM
Author: stirring stead

Single-minded focus? You do realize that the vast majority of novelists have real jobs besides writing novels and only view novel writing as a side thing, right?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377418)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:39 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yeah, but those are 40 hpw jobs, which are at the least more compact (if not necessarily more time-consuming) than being a student. Also, the best novelists seem to do their best work when they can do it close to full-time.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377478)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:41 AM
Author: stirring stead

Being a student is as far from a 40 hour a week job as you can get. If you're in a non-engineering non-science major and are putting 40 hours a week into schoolwork you're doing something seriously wrong.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377487)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:44 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

That's very true, but there are other commitments as well.

Actually, I knew plenty of very smart people who put 40+ hpw into schoolwork, though I wasn't one of them.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377509)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:18 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Google: "scholastic writing" "national gold award"

8 results

Google: "rhodes scholar"

497,000 results

So that's only like 5 orders of magnitude difference in prestige. Good job with that, man.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377320)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:20 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I can't believe you're using Google hits to prove a point. Don't you realize that Google is the most easily manipulable search engine out there?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377339)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:24 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Oh, you're right. Joe is probably planting "Rhodes Scholar" references out there at the same time he DOS attacks any site mentioning your award. I'm sorry that I hadn't considered the possibility.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377376)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:27 AM
Author: stirring stead

Come on pensive, are you *really* trying to argue that some high school writing certificate award is even remotely on par with the Rhodes? Give me a break.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377397)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:29 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

The Rhodes lost all of its prestige when the scholarship was given to that loser-fucker. It was originally *supposed* to follow from accomplishment and excellence, but evidently that fell by the wayside, at least in one case.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377411)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:43 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Many undergrads are very difficult to get into. Just not the ones you got into. That's why you don't attach much importance to it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376998)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:46 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Undergrad admission is a pure numbers game with a bit of luck thrown in, and also knowing the system. For a person who knows the system and can crack 1500 on the SATs, no undergrad is "very difficult to get into".

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377029)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:48 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Undergrad admission is a pure numbers game"

And yet every reputable source says otherwise. But thankfully we have Mike Church here to set us all straight!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377046)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:49 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Plenty of kids with 1600s get rejected from HYPSMC. (Not so much from Carleton or Chicago, I'll grant you.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377047)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:50 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Right, because those schools love to brag about how many 1600s they reject.

Nice edit, by the way.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377059)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:52 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I decided I'd just be more direct with you, as you rarely grasp anything too subtle. So yes, it was a very nice edit. Thanks!

OK. Lots of kids with 1590s get rejected as well. Point still stands.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377076)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:57 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I doubt your latter claim. These schools reject the 1600s specifically because they got 1600 and it's a trendy thing to brag about. You're almost certainly better off with a 1590.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377106)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:13 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

And now it's everyone's favorite time: we ask pensive to prove his absurd claims!

Please go ahead and do so.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377277)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:20 AM
Author: stirring stead

I'm still waiting for him to explain away Chicago's performance in the revealed preference study.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377335)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:39 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

This is STRIKINGLY SIMILAR to his prestige rankings for women.

Are we sensing a pattern?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376972)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:15 AM
Author: stirring stead

If it's all self selection, then why is it's yield so shitty? Every other good school with a self selection issue (BYU, Notre Dame, etc.) have high yields that go along with their high acceptance rates.

A high quality applicant pool, a high acceptance rate, and a low yield is evidence for one thing... safety school for Ivy applicants. Or at least that's what the people in my high school viewed it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376746)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:45 AM
Author: naked mexican

I think you mean "low yield." It doesn't make sense the other way.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377020)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:49 AM
Author: stirring stead

Thanks, I'll edit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377052)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:03 AM
Author: stirring stead

"What does this matter, given that I went to Carleton for location and educational model"

Yeah, and people turn down Harvard for Boston University because Harvard has too many snobs.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376617)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:04 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I'm actually telling the truth, you idiot. Some of us aren't lower-middle class striver trash who make our educational decisions based on name-recognition alone.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376624)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:07 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

But you slam Joe mercilessly for thoughtlessly choosing a field which (you claim!) is less prestigious than math? (Even though, let's be fair, you want to sell out and use your math on Wall Street, not push back the boundaries of human knowledge.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376658)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:12 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Actually, Joe Caltech's field (aerospace engineering) is quite respectable. In fact, it's prestigious. I believe that engineering programs are much larger, though, which would make it less selective. It's PrepMe for which I slam him, which is less prestigious than prostitution.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376718)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:13 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

It's fucking rocket science, man.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376728)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:08 AM
Author: stirring stead

The difference is that people like Becca who turn down good schools like Stanford and MIT for no-name places like Carleton actually have Stanford and MIT acceptance letters in hand when they make the decision. Where're yours?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376671)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:10 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I didn't apply because I consider it wrong to apply to places where one isn't interested in attending, and at the time I wasn't.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376692)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:12 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Oh, bless your moral little heart. Why the Harvard app then?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376717)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:15 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I applied before the visit that convinced me that I didn't want to go there (which was before the interview).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376749)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:55 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Top-15 math departments have very low acceptance rates, often in the single digits"

Yeah, and MIT, Caltech, Princeton, and Michigan all have reputations for being the Cooleys of aerospace engineering -- they accept anyone and everyone to their PhD programs!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376541)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:57 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

So GTO, answer this, and you cannot say "the same": Who is more prestigious, 174 or Joe Caltech? If you do not answer, you are calling them both unprestigious.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376565)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:00 AM
Author: stirring stead

I'd have to go with Joe Caltech.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376591)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:01 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

You have set yourself up for a massive pwning by a superior poster.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376603)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:03 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Summering at a V5 isn't THAT special.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376616)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:05 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

That's not why he's prestigious. His superior intellect, culture, and breeding also contribute.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376634)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:11 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Empty platitudes.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376697)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:05 AM
Author: stirring stead

Considering that I'm the only person here who knows where 174 is working and where he goes to school, I think I'm in a lot better position to judge than you are. 174 is prestigious (definitely more prestigious than me), but I'd be surprised if he even he thought he was more prestigious than Joe.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376636)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:21 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

This is self-contradictory. You put 174 above yourself, but you are more prestigious than Joe Caltech, and therefore that would prove that 174 > Joe Caltech.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376811)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:27 AM
Author: stirring stead

I'm not more prestigious than Joe.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376871)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:30 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yeah you are. You could still fuck up by doing something really unprestigious a la PrepMe, but right now you're leagues ahead of that loser-fucker. I don't know why you're on here defending him.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376905)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:09 AM
Author: marvelous library

you know what else has very low acceptance rates

THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376675)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:14 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

hahahahaha

You're too good at this. I haven't seen him pwned like this since the thread that Joe made last week.

I hope to heck you're not actually Joe, because that would spoil it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376732)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:19 AM
Author: marvelous library

no, i wish

just giving credit where credit is due.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376788)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:21 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

you know what else [blank]...

THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

That should become the standard response to pensive.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376808)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:24 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Why do you guys suck his dick so much? What has he done for you?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376838)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:38 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Apparently he once took the time to give Jul. Shock some advice, although I didn't know that before today. The things you learn. GTO knows him personally somehow. As for everyone else, I think it's really more about you than him.

In the absence of you, people probably wouldn't even talk about Joe, now that he's gone. But that's partly because there's nothing much to say: he's really fucking prestigious, probably the most prestigious ever to post on the board, which everyone can see (even though a lot of people thought he was either really boring or too Republican), and that's that.

But then you come along and toss your pebbles, and really the whole thing sheds a lot more light on you than it does on Joe, who remains pretty inert. Case in point, YOU turned this into a thread about him, and he didn't even post. YOU were the first to mention his name. Barring that one thread he made after GTO told him what you'd been up to after he was gone, he's not even around. We may safely assume he's getting drunk off his ass with a few pints of bitter right now.

Why are you so obsessed? THAT is really the point that interests everyone (or at least me). It's a bit like watching a trainwreck, except with a narcissistic, psycho-stalker instead of a train.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376961)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:40 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I'm disgusted that people think such a loser is prestigious, that's all.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376979)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:44 AM
Author: stirring stead

So that's why you do the online equivalent of stalking the guy?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377006)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:45 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

And the fact that you honestly believe that (and we know you do--it comes through strong and clear--this part is NOT schtick) is what makes it so interesting for the rest of the board.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377014)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:43 AM
Author: marvelous library

its really not hard to see why.

he's jealous and intimidated.

he wants to put down what he cant beat.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377001)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:48 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Um, two good friends of mine-- 174 and Media Kid-- ran Joe Caltech off the board, never to return. I'm just dancing on his grave a little bit. I'm not jealous of that loser, would never switch positions, and really don't think about him at all when I'm not on XO.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377042)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:51 AM
Author: marvelous library

board prestige is not the same as real life prestige.

they are most likely inversly related in fact, but that's an argument for a different day.

Also, 174 and Media Kid are not friends of yours. They represent internet monikers of people you have never met. Get that straight.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377065)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:58 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Well, 174 is maybe more of an acquaintance, but I have met Media Kid and correspond with him frequently.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377119)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:04 AM
Author: marvelous library

Are you subtly trying to claim that you are prestigious because you converse on the internet (and occasionally in person) with two other people who are deemed to be prestigious by an internet chatroom and that this tenuous connection makes you better than a rhodes scholar enterprenuer with real friends and real girlfriends?

My god. this board is like an alternate universe.

and I thought shrooms were fucked up.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377187)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:06 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

No, that's not why I'm more prestigious than Joe Caltech. His "entrepreneurship" is bunk, I have real friends as well, and I could have a girlfriend if I lowered my standards enough.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377210)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:08 AM
Author: stirring stead

How is his entrepreneurship bunk? It's a real business and he's making real money.

"I could have a girlfriend if I lowered my standards enough"

Didn't you say earlier in this thread that you only cared about real accomplishments?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377228)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:12 AM
Author: marvelous library

whatever GTO let it slide.

some people are just psychotic.

that's it pensive. you've won. you are smarter, more accomplished, more cultivated, better looking, and more popular than everyone here, including Joe Caltech.

I bow in awe of your prestige.

...

(PS- i am really going to bed this time. i cant believe how much time i wasted trying to knock some common sense into an absolute idiot.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377270)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 2:43 PM
Author: Swashbuckling cruise ship associate

PrepMe is *alright*, but Joe didn't do shit to start it, as far as I can see.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187117)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 2:40 PM
Author: soul-stirring business firm cuck

"and I could have a girlfriend if I lowered my standards enough. "

180.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187092)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:55 AM
Author: stirring stead

I've spoken with 174 offboard and I'd be amazed if he really thought he drove Joe off the board.

I think it should be obvious to everyone on here that the reason Joe doesn't post that often now is because of, well, him being in England and all, cause he won the FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377091)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:55 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Hmm. It seems more likely to me that he left for Europe (at about exactly the same time his business took off) and lost interest. But if you'd like to believe that your computer "friends" scared away the big bad guy whose very presence on the board got you all worked up, go right ahead.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377092)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:59 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

It's a fact. He left as soon as 174 and Media Kid mounted their summer offensive, because he was finally successfully pwned.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377130)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:01 AM
Author: stirring stead

Yeah, and him moving to Europe and having his business boom had absolutely nothing to do with it, right?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377161)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:13 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Right, because they don't have any computer terminals in England. I forgot about that fact. Guess I'm pwned, then.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377271)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:22 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

What exactly did they do that was so bad again?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377353)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:46 AM
Author: stirring stead

Are you trying to tell us that you turned down Harvard, MIT, Caltech, etc. for Carleton?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376459)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:49 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I didn't apply to MIT, or Caltech, because at the time I was afraid that if I did I'd get too specialized and not be well-rounded.

I only applied to Harvard because I was told I should, and blew it by telling the interviewer that I didn't want to go.

At the time, I was really sick of the East Coast-- the mentality and the people-- and wanted to spend some time in the Midwest. I also wanted to be in a liberal-arts college environment. The best LAC in the Midwest, according to most people you'll ask, is Carleton.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376487)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:51 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

And we all know how well-rounded you are today.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376495)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:52 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Quite well-rounded, actually.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376512)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:55 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Really. Do you pursue anything in athletics, or music, or fine art? Are you at all accomplished in those fields? Or do you spend all your free time sitting around in the dark and typing on your computer?

A truly well-rounded person probably would've had a relationship by the time they graduated from college too, you know.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376542)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:07 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I run, and lift weights occasionally but not as often as I should. As for music and fine arts, I admire people who are talented in them, but they aren't my forte. I am accomplished in writing, game design, and mathematics. I think that's enough.

Admittedly, I've spent too much time online PWNing you loser-fuckers in the past few months.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376654)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:09 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"I am accomplished in writing, game design, and mathematics."

You're accomplished in mathematics. Period. (And not even THAT accomplished. Not accomplished on, say, the level that a Rhodes Scholarship might recognize.) You tinker around with game design, and we're all still waiting for your book to come out.

Even if it were actually true, that's a far cry from making you well-rounded. "writing, game design, and mathematics"? Come on, man. That's not well-rounded. That's Dork-O-Rama.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376678)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:28 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yes, it would be better for me to get that book, but right now I'm doing other things. Besides, my superior writing skills inflame you already, post by post, so that's enough satisfaction for me.

More to the point, you're a loser so uninformed about the nature of reality that it's laughable. Please learn how life actually works; you are lacking in this knowledge and it shows in every post you write. Wikipedia would be a place to start.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382814)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:32 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Wikipedia sure schooled you in the ways of the world, or gave it the old college try at least. Unfortunately, it didn't take.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382854)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:41 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

The Wikipedia community is a massive TTT full of fucked-up people, but you can use it as a reference. I'm not saying that it's perfect, but it will make you, you personally, more knowledgable.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382920)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:57 AM
Author: stirring stead

"I only applied to Harvard because I was told I should, and blew it by telling the interviewer that I didn't want to go."

Wait, so you actually got rejected from Harvard on the merits, and not because of some big "We Hate Mike Church" conspiracy working behind the scenes? Wow, who knew.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376564)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:00 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Yep. I said that I didn't want to go there, and got rejected, and I deserved it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376593)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:03 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"I said that I didn't want to go there..."

I highly doubt that was included on your app. You gave it your best shot and failed, Mr. Well-Rounded.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376612)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:19 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I said this on my interview, and that's what caused me to get dinged.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377327)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:27 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

I believe you would have gotten dinged anyway. Unfortunately for both of us, we have now way of knowing who's right--of course, the fact that Harvard has a 90% rejection rate, combined with your unbalanced profile and lack of a real "hook," might give us a little hint.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377395)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:41 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

You are wrong. I exceeded the median student at any undergrad in terms of academic merit. I had quite the "hook" and a well-rounded profile, for a high school student. I admit that my accomplishments to the time were not impressive by an adult standard, but they were damn impressive for the high school standard, which is what undergrad adcoms care about.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377488)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:50 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Yes, you exceeded them in academic merit on one subject: math. And absolutely nothing else.

The median Harvard student does better than 710 on the verbal SAT section, and that's just for starters. Your "quite the hook" was in fact quite typical (close to a pre-requisite, even) for admission to Harvard to study math. Your profile is well-rounded in your dreams alone. Maybe if you'd been a talented figure skater or a super oboist.

And then later on in life, after 4 years of study during which you presumably believe you improved yourself, you once AGAIN weren't good enough to get into Harvard.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377540)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:24 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I took the SAT cold. I could have gotten much higher if I had prepped, and you're dead wrong and deluded about everything else. You've obviously never been to Harvard given how much you seem to worship the place (you overestimate its selectivty by far) and therefore I can only judge that you're a massive TTT. I'm sorry that I incite your insecurity, but you won't improve your life by inciting me, so get over yourself.

Also, UW math PhD >>> HC ugrad in terms of selectivity. There's no comparison.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382795)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:29 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

You know what's more selective than HC and UW math PhD put together?

THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382828)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 10:42 PM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Statistically speaking, that's true.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382922)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:23 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Well, this doesn't apply for the latter three (since the programs don't exist) but law:"

Joe isn't applying to law schools so how is this even remotely relevant? We were talking about PhD programs.

"I'm pretty confident that, given what I can do on the Putnam, I'd be able to crack 175 on the LSAT, which would get me in anywhere I wanted to go."

Of 139 applicants to Yale Law with a 175+ LSAT and a 3.75+ GPA, only 62 got accepted.

http://officialguide.lsac.org/OFFGUIDE/pdf/lsac3987.pdf

"I could get into the top business schools by getting in through investment banking or consulting."

You do realize you have to interview for those jobs, right?



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376309)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:28 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

YLS is uncertain for pretty much anyone, and it would be so for me, too.

I would ace the interviews, no problem. I'm only a prick online in places where it doesn't matter.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376341)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:33 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

What about, oh, those four years at Carleton?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376367)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:37 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I wasn't a prick then.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376392)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:38 AM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

hey mike, why'd you end up badmouthing for months the only girl who came even close to giving you a chance?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376402)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:43 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Because the cunt didn't give me a chance. She was a horrid, lying bitch. More to the point, there was a different woman who *did* give me a chance, I met her a month later, but I wasn't ready for her because I was still getting over this bitch in my past.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376442)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:45 AM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

sounds like something a prick would do as far as i'm concerned

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376454)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:51 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

You don't know this girl but she's a fucking awful person, I despise her, and I always will, and if that makes me a prick, then I'm a prick. Fine.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376494)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:21 AM
Author: stirring stead

"You don't know this girl but she's a fucking awful person, I despise her, and I always will,"

You managed to come to that conclusion after knowing her for just six days? That's amazing... I guess you used the same superior intellect skills you used to determine that Joe is Satan himself without having ever met the guy.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376818)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:27 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I knew her for a lot longer. She guilt-tripped me into pretending to be "friends" with her after the breakup.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376879)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:59 AM
Author: stirring stead

"More to the point, there was a different woman who *did* give me a chance, I met her a month later, but I wasn't ready for her because I was still getting over this bitch in my past."

Who knew six days could have that kind of profound impact on someone's life.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376582)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:52 AM
Author: stirring stead

"YLS is uncertain for pretty much anyone, and it would be so for me, too."

So in other words, you were wrong above about a 175 LSAT making you a shoo-in at any law school.

"I would ace the interviews, no problem. I'm only a prick online in places where it doesn't matter."

Okay, so what's stopping you from sending your resume to McKinsey, going on an interview, and proving all of us wrong?

Oh wait, nevermind... We all know that the big Carleton conspiracy that made your life a living hell for four years has infiltrated the ranks of the McKinsey HR department, as well as the HR department of every consulting and IBank in the world.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376514)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:55 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"Okay, so what's stopping you from sending your resume to McKinsey, going on an interview, and proving all of us wrong?"

The fact that, at least right now, I don't want to go there, and that I think it's wrong to give people false leads.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376539)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:33 AM
Author: marvelous library

"if i had"

"im sure i could"

right

i could play in the NBA too, i just dont like the lifestyle. too much about the "bling-bling" and not enough about the love of the game.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376366)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:34 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Particularly ironic since one of his main attacks on Joe's pile of accomplishments is "he doesn't have anything real."

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376371)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:03 AM
Author: marvelous library

OK. Let's pretend here that you are extremely intelligent. This might be stretching it, but this is the assumption. There are three "tracks" you can choose:

1) You work hard and acheive incredible things, rightfully drawing the respect and admiriation of everyone around you. This is the path Joe chose.

2) You do very little work and slide through whatever task that faces you through intelligence alone. You are moderately succesful (t15 undergrad, t6 law, etc...) but very relaxed. Hang out with friends. Watch movies. Get drunk. Smoke pot. Retire early. You may not live up to your potential, but you can at least relax and enjoy life.

(this is the path I like to think I am taking, through an inability to sustain myself at the #1 level for anywhere longer than a month at a time)

3) You are too high strung to enjoy 2 but too worthless to acheive 1. You spend your whole life bitching and complaining about what you "could do" and wonder why you die miserable, alone, and unknown. 2's laugh at you and 1's don't even know you exist.

Which one are you?



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376611)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:23 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I'm #1, thought I wouldn't call my accomplishments "incredible", and the path Joe Caltech chose is actually #3.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376829)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:30 AM
Author: marvelous library

lets get cracking on these accomplishments. list them.

and shit like "getting into x school and getting an x GPA" doesnt count because

1) 75% of people on this board did the same or better

2) thats not an accomplishment. see the "sliding by on intelligence" in #2

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376898)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:30 AM
Author: stirring stead

What exactly have you accomplished other than Carleton UG and acceptance to a Wisconsin PhD program (which you might not even finish, given the high attrition rates), neither of which is worth bragging about in the first place?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376903)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:33 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Actually, UW PhD is more selective than any undergrad. Anyway, I generally consider school admissions not worth bragging about, so I agree with you.

I've won national writing contests, was a frequent columnist for college publications. (I need to get cracking on some more widespread things, but right now I don't have the time.) I've written a card game that has been published in a Japanese print magazine, without me submitting it. (They made initial contact.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376926)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:41 AM
Author: marvelous library

Really?

a card game you say?

well, i thought we were comparing a self-made millionare rhodes scholar to just a NORMAL bitter grad student, not a bitter grad student who made a card game.

well never mind then. I am truly impressed with your prestige.

I wonder if anyone has made a Wikipedia entry about your game.

That would be even a higher level of prestige. a godlike level.

(PS- I really am not trying to be mean. I'm sure its a great game. But just realize when someone has acheived more than you, and be happy for them. Nobody will think less of you for it.)



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376983)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:43 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"But just realize when someone has acheived more than you, and be happy for them."

Lots of people have achieved more than me, but some TTT clown outfit of a business doesn't cut it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376997)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:49 AM
Author: marvelous library

Let's phrase this in a Jeopordy question:

Answer: 1,000 more impressive than anything you have ever done or received in your entire life.

Question: what is THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Also, I am going to bed. But a few days from now, when you wonder why you are feeling lonely and that girl hasn't called, please re-read this thread. Maybe you'll get it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377049)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:47 AM
Author: stirring stead

You know what's even more selective than any UW PhD program?

THE FUCKING RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Some Japanese print magazine writing about your card game without you submitting it is an accomplishment? Dude, Joe's business was on the fucking COVER of Fortune Small Business magazine and was on CNN, and that was just stuff that happened this month.

And I can't believe you're actually citing publishing in your student newspaper as an accomplishment. It's not like those places reject anyone, especially at a place as small as Carleton.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377038)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:52 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"Dude, Joe's business was on the fucking COVER of Fortune Small Business magazine and was on CNN, and that was just stuff that happened this month."

I don't suck cock, never did and never will.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377070)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:57 AM
Author: stirring stead

Way to dodge the entire point of the post.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377105)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:01 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

No, because we both know exactly how he got on the cover of Fortune (which is an arriviste TTT anyway, but that's another matter entirely.)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377152)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:02 AM
Author: stirring stead

Let me guess, he told the editor-in-chief she had nice shoes and she loved him so much that she put his business on the cover?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377170)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:05 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

It was clearly through some sort of sycophantry or bribery, not merit, though the precise mechanism is unknown. The loser-fucker's crafty and without principle, so anything's possible.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377196)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:55 AM
Author: Concupiscible canary volcanic crater area

I'm not sure which is worse: pensive's self-aggrandizement or your fellating Joe.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377090)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 1:58 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

The self-aggrandizement. Easily.

This is almost cosmic. Pensive spews so much hate that an equal and opposite reaction has to spill out somewhere to compensate.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377122)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:04 AM
Author: Concupiscible canary volcanic crater area

I am not convinced that being a rabid apologist is ever an appropriate reaction.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377188)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:53 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Fight fire with fire, I guess.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377559)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:07 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Technically I lost that subargument, but the fact that Joe Caltech is a loser with a TTT cow-fuck business still stands,"

And yet, that "loser" won a Rhodes, has gotten into every undergrad and grad program he's ever applied to, got a 3.8+ GPA at Caltech, published a very successful book that got multiple printings, and his "TTT cow-fuck business" wins countless entrepreneurial competitions, makes a lot of money, and gets significant media attention. Plus some other stuff I've probably forgotten.

Yeah, what a loser. I'd hate to have that kind of lifestyle.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376207)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:12 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

The "multiple printings" were the result of stragetic sycophantry, and that's a fact. His PrepMe company is not only an embarrassment to him, his family, and his community, but also to anyone who lives within 50 miles of any place that fucker has ever been. It's the most embarrassing business in recent American history.

That said, his GPA and undergrad are impressive, as is his graduate degree, but that's about all he has that's real.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376240)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:18 AM
Author: stirring stead

"The "multiple printings" were the result of stragetic sycophantry, and that's a fact."

Yeah, cause everyone knows that all the major publishing companies just *love* to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars printing multiple runs of books that they know won't sell just because an author is good at flattery.

"His PrepMe company is not only an embarrassment to him, his family, and his community, but also to anyone who lives within 50 miles of any place that fucker has ever been. It's the most embarrassing business in recent American history."

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

"but that's about all he has that's real."

And the Rhodes.

And the millions he has earned or will soon earn from his business.

Oh, and don't forget his friends and romantic relationships (the kind that last more than six days).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376271)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:25 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

On publishing companies, I'm sure it only sold because of promotional and distributional support that it got because of his flattery. Let's face the fact: he's not a good writer, and there are plenty of high-scorers out there who could write a better book.

The Rhodes he got on account of his phony, unprestigious book. If the Rhodes Committee values, as sometimes asserted, being "good with people", then this proves him to be a cheater because he would only get it by sending someone else to do his interview. (For the record, I'm not accusing him of cheating; I'm arguing that the Rhodes Committee doesn't care about interpersonal skill, citing him as case-in-point.)

If he earns millions from his business, I don't care, because he'll never get into respectable society with a business called "PrepMe". Just the name is vomit-inducing.

As for his girlfriends, well anyone can get a girlfriend if he lowers his standards, so I'm not impressed at all.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376319)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:39 AM
Author: stirring stead

"On publishing companies, I'm sure it only sold because of promotional and distributional support that it got because of his flattery."

Do you know *anything* about how the publishing industry works? Unless you're J.K. Rawlings, you're not going to get any promotional help from anyone on the basis of flattery, especially for something like test prep that's non-fiction and appeals to a niche audience.

"Let's face the fact: he's not a good writer, and there are plenty of high-scorers out there who could write a better book."

And yet his book not only got published, but sold extremely well, to the point where there were multiple printings, which is very rare, particularly for a first time author. Guess he must've done something right (or are you going to tell me that his mom bought 50,000 copies of the book to drive up sales?).

"The Rhodes he got on account of his phony, unprestigious book."

Yeah, I'm sure the Rhodes Committee ignored the 3.8+ from CalTech and the Michigan's master's degree and based their entire decision on a book he wrote more than four years ago before he even started college. After all, everyone knows that Cecil Rhodes had a hardon for SAT prep.

"If the Rhodes Committee values, as sometimes asserted, being "good with people", then this proves him to be a cheater because he would only get it by sending someone else to do his interview."

I take it you base this on your intimate firsthand experience of knowing and interacting with the guy in person?

Seems like Joe is one crafty bastard, not only pulling the wool over the eyes of a publishing company and all the judges of the entrepreneurial competitions he's won, but also tricking the entire Rhodes Committee. I'll never know how he can sleep at night!

But good thing we have Mike Church, the one who hasn't had a sip of Joe's Kool-Aid, to set all of us straight!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376410)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:47 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"Seems like Joe is one crafty bastard, not only pulling the wool over the eyes of a publishing company and all the judges of the entrepreneurial competitions he's won, but also tricking the entire Rhodes Committee."

You're finally starting to get it. I'm glad to see this. We've made some serious progress, and though I'm limited in how much I can help you, I have faith that if you listen to me, you'll eventually know how the world works.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376465)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:52 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Sarcasm is lost on this guy.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376503)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:23 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

"It's the most embarrassing business in recent American history."

Uh, hello, Enron? Are you even on Earth anymore, or have you taken up permanent residence on the Planet Jealous?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376308)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:30 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

PrepMe is worse than Enron, though I admit that they're pretty close. Enron's fuckup hurt more people and therefore got more exposure, but I wouldn't spit on someone who said he had worked in upper management at Enron; in fact, I'd be interested in his perspective on the matter.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376346)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:35 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

What about the scores of other companies in the test prep market?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376379)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:38 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Those at least don't have "PrepMe" as a name, which is a huge start.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376400)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:42 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

It's a stupid name, but less pretentious than something like "Princeton Review." And what's in a name anyway? Lots of brands have stupid-sounding names. Shouldn't someone as sophisticated as yourself know to look deeper?

In fact, doesn't the company's success while saddled with a stupid name make it seem even better?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376434)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:44 AM
Author: stirring stead

Yup, the "PrepMe" name has really hurt them! That's probably why they make no money, get no media coverage, and lose every business competition they enter.

Oh wait...

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376445)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:44 AM
Author: marvelous library

its better than your company which is apparently

"stuck up grad students who cant handle that someone has actually acheived more than them in life" inc.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376452)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:48 AM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

don't forget ambition. it's sorta the analagous thing in mike's life to joe's prepme stuff. i guess the difference is that people pay joe for prepme, while mike has to wheedle and beg people to play ambition, and then does stuff like whine and throw a hissy fit when they leave early.

prepme needs a new name. sounds like something a 5th grader came up with in 10 seconds. first real point mike's made here, and oh but is it ever minor.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376473)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:09 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

"mike has to wheedle and beg people to play ambition, and then does stuff like whine and throw a hissy fit when they leave early."

Wrong. Anyway, you've never met me and are talking out of your ass.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377238)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:12 AM
Author: stirring stead

"Wrong. Anyway, you've never met me and are talking out of your ass."

You having never met Joe hasn't stopped you from bashing him over the course of 200+ posts tonight.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377261)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:32 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

Well, he exists to be bashed.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377424)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:39 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

From this thread at least, it seems like you're alone in that view.

I think most of the posters tonight would agree that YOU exist to be bashed. You seem to like it, even.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377477)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:45 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I enjoy flamewars, and I really don't care about being bashed by people whose opinions I don't respect at all.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377517)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 2:51 AM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

Ah, the excuse of last resort for pensive. From what I hear, this one didn't go over so well at Carleton, did it?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377546)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 3:01 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

What are you talking about?

Yeah, I got into some flamewars back then, and they were fun, but that's over now.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4377607)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 12:54 AM
Author: Copper Titillating Half-breed

I haven't started that company yet, and it needs a better name. Working on it.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376529)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:44 PM
Author: naked mexican

Haha, a much younger version of me posted in that thread. I can't believe I actually considered applying to CalTech.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376096)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:47 PM
Author: kink-friendly impertinent deer antler crackhouse

You got some pretty detailed answers out of him.

It's weird to see the board again back when it was more about colleges than... other stuff.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376106)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 11:52 PM
Author: stirring stead

Actually he already applied to the PhD programs mentioned earlier in the thread (CalTech, Princeton, MIT, etc.) and got into all of them.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4376127)



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Date: April 27th, 2006 7:17 PM
Author: Glittery school kitty cat

pensive is an insecure douche. he's been doing the same thing to the harvard girl who copied another author in her book.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#5666618)



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Date: April 27th, 2006 7:31 PM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

ironically, that harvard girl actually won the writing award he brags about in this thread.

by contrast, i assume her chances at a rhodes are shot after this.

insecure douche about sums it up for pensive though.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#5666705)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:54 PM
Author: Insane Turdskin

Why don't you focus on something less specific than a Rhodes Scholarship? It sounds like a stretch, especially since you do not go to Yale, Harvard, MIT, CalTech, Stanford etc .

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374216)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:56 PM
Author: Free-loading Chocolate Dysfunction Lay

thats actually not at all of high importance for being a Rhodes scholar. personality and character are far more important. they'd rather see an interesting, dedicated, enterprising young adult at a state school than an IVY grad.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374225)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:58 PM
Author: Insane Turdskin

But there is nothing special about this poster based on her EC's. She is like pretty much every other pre-med psycho I know. She truly has not done anything that will make her stand out.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374234)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:59 PM
Author: Azure potus

I am only a sophomore. HTH!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374236)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:00 PM
Author: Cyan twisted preventive strike

I agree with this. While there are lots of people who win the most prestigious fellowships from the ivy's +MIT/Caltech/Stanford/Service Academies I think it's mostly because those schools attract that type of people. There are more straight up geniuses/really involved people etc. walking around Yale than StateU. But these people aren't like that b/c they go to Yale. I think most of the RS winners from lesser schools probably could have gone to many of the highly represented schools on the list had they wanted to.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374238)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 5:56 PM
Author: Vermilion Demanding Doctorate Ticket Booth

Harvard is out, Navy is in

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374227)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:02 PM
Author: Azure potus

I want to study Health and Health Policy at Oxford, please help me.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374250)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:05 PM
Author: Cyan twisted preventive strike

you know, you can just apply there and do the program after you graduate. it sounds like you want to be a RS to win friends and influence people. know that they will seek to discover people like that and have, doubtlessly, devised methods of doing so.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374268)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:10 PM
Author: Azure potus

Yeah but being a rhodes scholar seems pretty damn prestigious, like it would open doors and stuff.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374294)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 6:08 PM
Author: Azure potus

Hi everyone.

So I am interested in AIDS/HIV but do not have enough of a background to pursue HIV research from a biological standpoint. So I am thinking that I will focus on the anthropological and sociological effects and do field research with that? What do you guys think? What kind of a research project could I come up with that focuses on HIV/AIDS in some way, and that is significant?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374281)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:36 PM
Author: filthy maroon knife
Subject: if you're serious

Why don't you browse through other people's projects to get ideas? It's easy to come up with stuff when you look at other projects and see what's wrong with them.

This is how I came up with a three month research project last year.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374598)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:40 PM
Author: Azure potus

Where do I look at other people's research projects though? thanks!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374620)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:42 PM
Author: filthy maroon knife

Well, I combed through NSF, because they post their grant info. and the abstracts of the projects on their website. I also talked to profs, who referred me to other people, who in turn referred me to other people.

Tell me more specifically; what type of project are you thinking of? What field, and in what breadth?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374630)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:45 PM
Author: Azure potus

I would like to do a research project on HIV/AIDS. Anthropology-based. (I do not have much of a scientific background.) That is all that I know. :(

thank you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374650)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:16 PM
Author: filthy maroon knife

But what about it? "Anthropology based" could mean anything.

If you really have no idea whatsoever, than you should do a little reading to at least familiarize yourself with issues.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374836)



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Date: November 25th, 2005 9:55 PM
Author: bossy station

Christ almighty. Do you have a science background or not? Do you now understand why we have no problem treating you like shit?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4382482)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:16 PM
Author: Cyan twisted preventive strike

get raped. (serious response)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375282)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 9:25 PM
Author: bossy station

There's nothing interesting that an individual can introduce in the HIV/AIDS field. Seriously. It's been done to death. You're better off working in a lesser-known, less trendy subject area.

If you drop the "significant" part, there's lots of shit you can do.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4375318)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 7:52 PM
Author: costumed immigrant goyim

don't go to harvard. they had 0 rhodes scholars this year.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374684)



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Date: November 24th, 2005 8:23 PM
Author: Charismatic jap heaven

H is a TTT in decline. Best in Asia though.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374873)



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Date: April 27th, 2006 7:09 PM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

but they do have a scholastic award winner!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#5666580)



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Date: April 27th, 2006 7:17 PM
Author: Bateful office puppy

Nice bump.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#5666620)



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Date: April 27th, 2006 7:33 PM
Author: Nudist unhinged police squad international law enforcement agency

thank you

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#5666714)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 3:37 PM
Author: Azure potus

oh wow, who bumped this thread? For an update, I'm right now in Tanzania doing HIV/AIDS research with my concentration being in the field of biological anthropology. I'm now in Dar Es Salaam but I will be traveling to small villages (particularly one small village that has had an unexpectedly large increase in HIV+ population) as I plan to focus my research on rural Southern Tanzania

I still want to be a rhodes scholar but if that doesn't work out i'm going to apply for fulbright or some other international fellowships because I want to do something with HIV

anyway, internet connection here is so slow :( Bye!!!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187513)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 3:58 PM
Author: Jet-lagged walnut hell

cool, I did my thesis on environmental policy in Southern Tanzania. you should visit Ruaha and Katavi if you're not flame.

edit: what TTT do you attend?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187655)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:02 PM
Author: Azure potus

Oh really what did you do? What was your thesis for?

Also I don't really attend a TTT.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187683)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:19 PM
Author: Jet-lagged walnut hell

"what did you do?"

Won't specify, but you may read about it soon.

"What was your thesis for?"

Do you know what a thesis is? Silly question.

"Also I don't really attend a TTT."

Anything outside of HYP is TTT. If you prefer, I can pose the question differently: What semi-TTT do you attend?

Your internet connect really seems to be struggling.

hth



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187785)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:24 PM
Author: Azure potus

"Won't specify, but you may read about it soon."

I doubt it. Considering the fact that you are a TTT, I am sure your thesis was on the same level.

hth

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187825)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:29 PM
Author: sick turquoise piazza

Why have you stopped posting under SilverBandCry! you worthless faggot? And why did you steal this girl's pictures and claim they're pics of you?

http://img39.imageshack.us/my.php?image=laracroft3ez.jpg

http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dress6fx.jpg

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/7241/halloween057zh.jpg

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187862)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:35 PM
Author: Jet-lagged walnut hell

I actually graduated summa, but nice try. I'm sorry you find reality so harsh.

But enough -- I'll leave you to play in your little fantasy world.

hth



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187893)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:54 PM
Author: Zippy hairy legs school cafeteria

It's nice that after such a long absence from the board you happened to tune into xoxo right after this thread was bumped for the first time in months--approximately 10:30PM Tanzania time--despite a slow internet connection.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6188066)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:34 PM
Author: Deranged magenta prole

Aspiring trolls, take note: this thread produced two fully independent specimens of outrageous flame!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187891)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:37 PM
Author: Jet-lagged walnut hell

you only counted two?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187910)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:43 PM
Author: Deranged magenta prole

Saltybabe dealt the initial blow and Pensive is more like an opportunistic infection.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187969)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:40 PM
Author: appetizing corn cake reading party

it is like a pitri dish for flame amoebas.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187944)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:40 PM
Author: Azure potus

final goodbye to this thread and xoxo. maybe i'll post back when i am a physician working on hiv/aids issues, that is if xoxo exists then ;)



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187938)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 4:45 PM
Author: Deranged magenta prole

By the time you are a physician studying hiv/aids xoxo will be a thing of the past, we will all own flying cars and the dominant political model will be dictatorship by alien overlords.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6187993)



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Date: July 11th, 2006 5:10 PM
Author: Jet-lagged walnut hell

175

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#6188188)