American University

[definitivedoodle]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I highly recommend going to college very far away from home.  It's much easier to establish your own identity when you're nowhere near home.

this way you can get as drunk as you want get arrest, and take care if it all before you rents find out.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

You sound like you've already had a liquid lunch.
 
 

Originally posted by definitivedoodle:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I highly recommend going to college very far away from home.  It's much easier to establish your own identity when you're nowhere near home.

this way you can get as drunk as you want get arrest, and take care if it all before you rents find out. [/b]

[definitivedoodle]

haha
 
 i wish.

[Frank Gallagher]

When I worked close to the AU campus I was under the impression the only qualification required to get into that place was a very annoying nasal NJ accent.

[muschi]

HEY i resemble that remark!

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[dtqjr]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
   

Originally posted by sonicyouth42:
  American has actually become rather competitive in the last couple years.  I've got a 3.8 GPA and a 1300/1600 on the SAT, and it will still be a stretch if I am accepted.  
 
 I would rather have a "city" campus than a traditional one, but since it's close to the city I guess it doesn't matter.  George Washington is out of my academic reach, anyway.

jesus, its a good thing I am not a applying now, I can assure you that most of the people at AU while I was there did not have a 3.8 and 1300/1600
 
 the other things that stick out about AU, or did then, and these arent making any judgements about whether that is good or bad:
 
 1-very politically minded
 2-large international population
 3-large gay population
 4-very diverse in general
 5-most people dont really care about the sports teams
 6-it is fairly easy to avoid the Greek scene
 7-tons of people intern on Wednesdays [/b]

grade inflation my friend

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Efram:
 grade inflation my friend

grade inflation?
 
 high schoolers are getting better grades? the sat has gotten easier?
 
 i just think that top 100 colleges are getting more competitive

[vansmack]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
 
 i just think that top 100 colleges are getting more competitive

We've figured that since the 1990s, and the so-called "baby boom echo," with all of those children of baby boom parents, along with the children of new immigrantsâ??swelling population of our elementary schools - well guess who's going to college now?
 
 Colleges, private Universities most notably, have done little to increase the number of seats offered - for good and bad reasons.  
 
 I would argue it has less to do with colleges themselves being more competitve and more to do with the higher number of students and the students being better prepared for liberal arts majors.
 
 Want to go to college in 2005-2010?  Major in a science to distinguish yourself from the expected 20% increase in higher ed student population.