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cornfused wrote:

dyetman89 wrote:College.

Congrats, Doug.

Heh. Actually, I believe with an average above 65 (how much above being delightfully irrelevant) and high SAT scores, they had to legally accept me. How's that for a strong negotiating position?

BTW, Xiang Siow of Stuyvesant is going to UChicago. Seth Teitler, your services are no longer required.

Players from Dorman A:
Me - Clemson University
Paolo - Wofford College
Arsalaan - Wofford College
Nick - waitlisted to several schools, won't know for a while...

Other Wayzata players:
Chris Heffner- Michigan State University
Eli Reding- St. Olaf College

South Fork Players
Tom- Duke
Daniel - Dartmouth
Jared - UF
Raymond- Freshman

ValenciaQBowl wrote:theattachment wrote:

Normandale CC in Minnesota, though I'll probably play with the Minnesota team if I do QB next year. It's not worth starting a team when I'm likely to transfer within the year (maybe after one semester).

I don't blame you for not starting a team if you're going to transfer so soon, but if you don't mind, and if UMinn. is actually reasonably close to the (a?) Normandale campus, could you maybe see if you could get some classmates interested in tagging along? Or maybe even a staff person from student activities? Maybe you could get them acquainted and they could start their own team.

It definitely is close enough to get people to come to practice (I might actually be living next to campus at the U as well), and if I end up deciding to stay the full year I may look in to getting a team started. That said, it does hang on if I'm not too burnt out for playing college QB.

Other Eden Prairie Senior Destinations:

Me: Brown
Steven: Princeton
Igor: Duke
Anant: Northwestern
Manuel: University of Minnesota

Snead State Community College. I'll play QB there then it's on to either Jacksonville State or UAH where I'll have to try and get a team started.

Yale, whose team couldn't make it to ACF Nationals...

Or NAQT sectionals.

im graduating in 09 but planning to go to Willam and Mary or Wofford

Mr Foster wrote:im graduating in 09 but planning to go to Willam and Mary or Wofford

Wofford usually gets a number of freshmen with hsqb experience. They have had teams compete sporadically over the years (they used to concentrate on CBI), but have never been a consistent presence. I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be a team at Wofford. Like Clemson and Furman, Wofford's in a good location to travel to many tournaments. If someone who happens to read this is going to Wofford and is interested in starting (or joining, if there's a team there already), feel free to contact me at [email protected]. I know a good person on the Wofford faculty who might be willing to help. I'm also happy to answer questions (probably badly) regarding the circuit.

Maggie Walker's seniors:
Andrew Goodfellow: University of Richmond
Erik Haley: University of Virginia
Palmer Mebane: Waiting to hear from MIT to decide between there and Harvey Mudd
Anant Shukla: University of Virginia

Man. What the old spice donkey kong pen olive eye drop. Suddenly MIT doesn't think Palmer is smart enough for them? "No, I'm sorry, we have too many Blue MOPpers saturated here, try another university"

Blue MOP essentially means he is in the top 12-24 math kids in the nation... last year. He is tied for 12th or something this year.

College Admissions process = dumb.

Like I don't see how MIT can let in kids who don't have any real credentials, since they come from an under-represented state like Wyoming but a brilliant kid like Palmer gets shafted because the color of his skin and his geography (does anyone happen to know where TJ is located? =P).

Ridiculousness. FU AA.

But on that note, I'm going to Florida State.

Please watch the language in the high school section - MGMT

SaiemGilani wrote: Like I don't see how MIT can let in kids who don't have any real credentials

I can tell you from two years here that this doesn't happen. Almost everyone at MIT is way qualified to be here, and even though there's some innate randomness in the process (how can you choose the top 1500 out of 3000 way qualified applicants?), I think there's very few mistakes of inclusion (i.e. very, very few people are here unjustifiably). I certainly agree that it seems weird that a MOPper wouldn't get in on the first go-round, but hey, weird things happen.

OK, I'm done looking like an admissions department lackey. Can't wait to see the frosh in the fall!

SaiemGilani wrote:Man. What the old spice donkey kong pen olive eye drop. Suddenly MIT doesn't think Palmer is smart enough for them? "No, I'm sorry, we have too many Blue MOPpers saturated here, try another university"

Blue MOP essentially means he is in the top 12-24 math kids in the nation... last year. He is tied for 12th or something this year.

College Admissions process = dumb.

Like I don't see how MIT can let in kids who don't have any real credentials, since they come from an under-represented state like Wyoming but a brilliant kid like Palmer gets shafted because the color of his skin and his geography (does anyone happen to know where TJ is located? =P).

Ridiculousness. FU AA.

But on that note, I'm going to Florida State.

Please watch the language in the high school section - MGMT

Palmer apparently bombed the interview...his social skills are lacking at times...

If he does end up going to Harvey Mudd, there's an active team with Mudd and maybe some other Claremont College people (don't know if it's just Mudd anymore, but Scripps and Pomona used to have teams that would occasionally join with them). They showed up to Aztlan Cup the past couple of years and look to be building into a decent team (I just don't know how eligibility would work for NAQT and ACF if the team does indeed draw from semi-autonomous colleges).

cvdwightw wrote:If he does end up going to Harvey Mudd, there's an active team with Mudd and maybe some other Claremont College people (don't know if it's just Mudd anymore, but Scripps and Pomona used to have teams that would occasionally join with them). They showed up to Aztlan Cup the past couple of years and look to be building into a decent team (I just don't know how eligibility would work for NAQT and ACF if the team does indeed draw from semi-autonomous colleges).

Claremont does have a team that includes all 5 Claremont Colleges, although the team is mostly made up of people from Claremont-McKenna and Mudd.
As for eligibility, we participated as Claremont at ACF Regionals last year and had no problems. I'm not sure about NAQT eligibility, however.

I will be following in Paul's footsteps at Vanderbilt.

I know a Dave J. from Northport going to UCLA who was at a tournament I went to.

Culver Seniors (Since none of them post here)

Erich Steubgen: Deciding between Renssalear and Harvey Mudd
Zhaoheng Zheng: Notre Dame
Jenn Putman: Cooper Union
Michael Nelson: Texas

East Lansing seniors:

Kurtis: Michigan
Liz: Michigan Tech
Lauren: Carleton (MN)
Nora: Michigan

NMB students juniors and seniors

Sara Caudill (SR): William and Mary, Majoring in East Asian Studies
Joseph Spivey (SR): NC State, Majoring in Physics
Brandon Truss (JR): NC State, Majoring in Nuclear Enginering
Zach Foster/Me (JR): Most likely now Clemson, Double Major in History and International Relations
Heather Edwards (JR): South Carolina, Majoring in Communications

So I'm going to noted Waterville, ME quizbowl powerhouse Colby.

MLWGS-Gir wrote:Maggie Walker's seniors:
Andrew Goodfellow: University of Richmond
Erik Haley: University of Virginia
Palmer Mebane: Waiting to hear from MIT to decide between there and Harvey Mudd
Anant Shukla: University of Virginia

Palmer is going to Harvey Mudd.

Zach Foster from NMB: Why are your juniors going to college already?

sry this is where are juniors plan on going and probably will get in based of GPA and SAT

leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

ntan wrote:leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

Yes, you are. You should be leaving sunny southern california to go to lawrence.

For the love of God, am I getting ANYONE? Does anyone know of anyone going to Lawrence (even just smart people with no quizbowl experience?)

Congrats to all of you for getting in to such wonderful places.
good luck with freshman year!

For the love of God, am I getting ANYONE? Does anyone know of anyone going to Lawrence (even just smart people with no quizbowl experience?)

One of the seniors from the Okemos (MI) team is going to Lawrence. I don't think they went to many tournaments, but I can see if she's at all interested in continuing.

ntan wrote:leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

Hey, as a member of the quizbowl team, let me just say welcome to Cornell.

By the way, in the winter the school doesn't cancel even for like a foot of snow, so um... bring a jacket, but its totally worth it to see the dazzling frozen waterfall and 50 foot icicles hanging off the cliffside everyday in the winter.

Wall of Ham wrote:By the way, in the winter the school doesn't cancel even for like a foot of snow, so um... bring a jacket, but its totally worth it to see the dazzling frozen waterfall and 50 foot icicles hanging off the cliffside everyday in the winter.

Man, I wish our campus had more cool stuff like that to make our absurd winters more worthwhile.

I am now officially going to Carleton College (MN) next year.

OctagonJoe wrote:I am now officially going to Carleton College (MN) next year.

THIS DISPLEASES ME

(psst eric high school section)

Well, at least there's a better chance Carleton will show up to more real tournaments and not shy away from packet-writing next year.

Ukonvasara wrote:(psst eric high school section)

Well, at least there's a better chance Carleton will show up to more real tournaments and not shy away from packet-writing next year.

Like Eric would allow that...

I've finalized plans to go to Normandale, transfer to the U of M and play open stuff with them while I'm not an actual student.

Wall of Ham wrote:

ntan wrote:leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

Hey, as a member of the quizbowl team, let me just say welcome to Cornell.

By the way, in the winter the school doesn't cancel even for like a foot of snow, so um... bring a jacket, but its totally worth it to see the dazzling frozen waterfall and 50 foot icicles hanging off the cliffside everyday in the winter.

Just make sure you don't walk underneath the icicles... we wouldn't want any of our team members getting impaled!

ntan wrote:leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

Oh, there are far more idiotic things one could do. Like living in Ithaca for 17 years but not taking the opportunity to escape, and going to school here anyway.

Anyway…what they said. Welcome to Cornell!

thanks for welcoming me! i believe there are at least 3 quizbowlers from the San Diego/Los Angeles area that are coming to ithaca as well.

mcn46 wrote:

ntan wrote:leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

Oh, there are far more idiotic things one could do. Like living in Ithaca for 17 years but not taking the opportunity to escape, and going to school here anyway.

as for staying in the same place for 17+ years, theres a bunch of kids at my school who decided to attend caltech, which is something like a 15 min drive from my school...so i guess you aren't alone

ntan wrote:thanks for welcoming me! i believe there are at least 3 quizbowlers from the San Diego/Los Angeles area that are coming to ithaca as well.

mcn46 wrote:

ntan wrote:leaving sunny southern california to go to cornell. some say i am an idiot

Oh, there are far more idiotic things one could do. Like living in Ithaca for 17 years but not taking the opportunity to escape, and going to school here anyway.

as for staying in the same place for 17+ years, theres a bunch of kids at my school who decided to attend caltech, which is something like a 15 min drive from my school...so i guess you aren't alone

But you can actually live through California winters...

For James Island:

Ryan- University of South Carolina

Joe-James Island

evilmonkey wrote:But you can actually live through California winters...

Ithaca…not so much!

You guys act like the Southern Tier is Yakutsk. Honestly, its not that bad in the winter up there.

(Although, growing up there gave me the fortitude to go out in shorts when its below freezing.)

mcn46 wrote:

evilmonkey wrote:But you can actually live through California winters...

Ithaca…not so much!

For myself, I can hardly handle South Bend winters. I think all you guys in upstate NY are nuts.

I'm going the other way to avoid the cold NY winters! Hello sunny Cal-i-forn-i-a!

evilmonkey wrote:But you can actually live through California winters...

About the only downside to "California winters" is Forest Fire Fall. There's nothing quite like a nice batch of Santa Anas blowing smoke at you at 35 miles an hour. El Nino seasons aren't too good either (especially with the landslide threats after Forest Fire Fall), but I'd imagine most people would gladly take this to get out of their miserably cold winter.

Is anybody besides John Brown coming to Indiana University? Anybody?

Johnson Central Seniors:

Amie Sparks- University of KY
Shawn Butcher- University of KY
Eric LeMaster- Morehead State University (and after, probably Ohio State)

leapfrog314 wrote:Is anybody besides John Brown coming to Indiana University? Anybody?

Jonathan Irving, I've been told

is UCSD getting anyone? at all?