2014 USNWR T25 Prediction Contest (Winners Announced) Forum

[Jaqen]

• _1. Yale
  _2. Harvard
  _3. Stanford
  _4. Columbia
  _5. Chicago
  _6. NYU
  _7. Penn
  _8. Berkeley
  _9. UVA
  10. Michigan
  11. Duke
  12. Northwestern
  13. Cornell
  14. Georgetown
  15. Texas
  16. UCLA
  17. Vanderbilt
  18. USC
  19. WUSTL
  20. Minnesota
  21. George Washington
  22. Notre Dame
  23. Emory
  24. BU
  25. IUB

[North]

• _9. Michigan
  10. UVA

I lol'd.The Boomers are dying, dude, and with them dies M's inflated quality assessment score. I'm with you on NYU, though.

[Yukos]

• _9. Michigan
  10. UVA

I lol'd.The Boomers are dying, dude, and with them dies M's inflated quality assessment score. I'm with you on NYU, though.

NYU has been aggressively adding faculty for years; they probably have the most underrated quality assessment of the T14 (ie they're bizarro Michigan). Their 12% in school-funded jobs is weak though.

[Crowing]

North you gonna submit an entry?

I ain't gonna debate the merits of any choices - can't be helping out the competition after all. Bet this is gonna be like picking a March Madness bracket though. You can try hard all you want but at the end of the day some monkey that threw darts is gonna end up with a better prediction than you.

[drive4showLSAT4dough]

Code fail.

[North]

North you gonna submit an entry?

Yeah I'm working on it right now, actually. I won't win, though, because I'm doing it the same non-scientific, gut-based way I do college football pick-ems: within reason, I'm predicting good outcomes for schools that I like and bad outcomes for schools that I, for whatever arbitrary reason, don't like. And you summed up why I do it like that pretty well, actually:

You can try hard all you want but at the end of the day some monkey that threw darts is gonna end up with a better prediction than you.

Code fail.

Talking about the poll?

[toothbrush]

North you gonna submit an entry?

I ain't gonna debate the merits of any choices - can't be helping out the competition after all. Bet this is gonna be like picking a March Madness bracket though. You can try hard all you want but at the end of the day some monkey that threw darts is gonna end up with a better prediction than you.

this pretty much sums up the reasons i'm not taking this seriously

[North]

North you gonna submit an entry?

I ain't gonna debate the merits of any choices - can't be helping out the competition after all. Bet this is gonna be like picking a March Madness bracket though. You can try hard all you want but at the end of the day some monkey that threw darts is gonna end up with a better prediction than you.

this pretty much sums up the reasons i'm not taking this seriously

I really want Regulus to stumble in here with a really, really well-researched and heavily-considered submission so we can compare his outcome to those of us who took the monkey dart approach.

[Sheffield]

• _1. Yale
  _2. Harvard
  _3. Stanford
  _4. Columbia
  _5. NYU
  _5. UPENN
  _7. Chicago
  _8. Berkeley
  _9. Duke
  9. Virginia
  11. Michigan
  12. Northwestern
  13. Cornell
  14. UCLA
  15. Georgetown
  16. U Texas
  17. Vanderbilt
  18. U Minn
  19. USC
  20. Emory
  20. G Wash
  22. W&L
  23. Washington U
  24. Notre Dame
  25. ASU

Because I assume there is a deadline to submitting predictions, here it is! Will Harvard jump back up, will UPenn rejoin the T6 again, will Duke finally break into the top 10….

(Wish I knew what criteria changes USNWR implemented this time (not that it would actually help me). Wonder what the negative impact might be (if any) on school-funded employment?)

[TripTrip]

Looks like somebody has not love for D.C.

I really want Regulus to stumble in here with a really, really well-researched and heavily-considered submission so we can compare his outcome to those of us who took the monkey dart approach.

+1

[20141023]

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[TripTrip]

there was a competition put on by HR at Regulus' office recently for the "tidiest desk,"

[toothbrush]

I really want Regulus to stumble in here with a really, really well-researched and heavily-considered submission so we can compare his outcome to those of us who took the monkey dart approach.

This is precisely why Regulus is not submitting anything in this thread; he would feel extremely butthurt if he lost to random shit-guesses.

Speaking of butthurt, there was a competition put on by HR at Regulus' office recently for the "tidiest desk," and the winner got a $10 Starbucks gift card. Regulus' desk literally never has anything on it if he is not using it at the time (he might be a little OCD about cleaning shit), and he always dusts it at the end of the day and stuff... but HR didn't choose his desk because it "didn't look like anyone sat there." (That was literally HR's comment on the feedback matrix.)

Why is Regulus speaking in the third person?

[North]

Speaking of butthurt, there was a competition put on by HR at Regulus' office recently for the "tidiest desk," and the winner got a $10 Starbucks gift card. Regulus' desk literally never has anything on it if he is not using it at the time (he might be a little OCD about cleaning shit), and he always dusts it at the end of the day and stuff... but HR didn't choose his desk because it "didn't look like anyone sat there." (That was literally HR's comment on the feedback matrix.)

Regulus, can you tell I work at my desk?

This is precisely why Regulus is not submitting anything in this thread; he would feel extremely butthurt if he lost to random shit-guesses.

Then make one based on what you WANT to see and submit it. You're looking at a ~1/25 chance at free pistachios (at the moment). Go for it, dude.

[shifty_eyed]

I really want Regulus to stumble in here with a really, really well-researched and heavily-considered submission so we can compare his outcome to those of us who took the monkey dart approach.

This is precisely why Regulus is not submitting anything in this thread; he would feel extremely butthurt if he lost to random shit-guesses.

Speaking of butthurt, there was a competition put on by HR at Regulus' office recently for the "tidiest desk," and the winner got a $10 Starbucks gift card. Regulus' desk literally never has anything on it if he is not using it at the time (he might be a little OCD about cleaning shit), and he always dusts it at the end of the day and stuff... but HR didn't choose his desk because it "didn't look like anyone sat there." (That was literally HR's comment on the feedback matrix.)

Why is Regulus speaking in the third person?

Idk but it suits him

[North]

• _1. Yale
  _2. Harvard
  _3. Stanford
  _4. Columbia
  _5. Chicago
  _6. NYU
  _7. Virginia
  _8. Penn
  _9. Berkeley
  10. Duke
  11. Northwestern
  12. Michigan
  13. Cornell
  14. Georgetown
  15. UCLA
  16. Vanderbilt
  17. Texas
  18. USC
  19. UMinn
  20. Notre Dame
  21. George Washington
  22. WUSTL
  23. Washington & Lee
  24. Emory
  25. Boston College
  25. Boston University

[TripTrip]

North, 1985 called. They want their keyboard back.

[toothbrush]

why would mich drop to 12 and nw shoot up to 10 ?

DAMN MONKEYS ARE U BLIND

[North]

why would mich drop to 12 and nw shoot up to 10 ?

DAMN MONKEYS ARE U BLIND

Despite my love for its campus, I think it's time that M settled down where it belongs with DCNG. NU has hovered around 11/12 for the last six years. I don't think 10 is unreasonable -- it was #9 a few years back -- and I like what NU's been doing with WE expectations. Also, nice campus in an ugly city.

[alwayssunnyinfl]

why would mich drop to 12 and nw shoot up to 10 ?

DAMN MONKEYS ARE U BLIND

Despite my love for its campus, I think it's time that M settled down where it belongs with DCNG. NU has hovered around 11/12 for the last six years. I don't think 10 is unreasonable, and I like what NU's been doing with WE expectations. Also, nice campus in an ugly city.

You'd better not be talking about Chicago.

[North]

You'd better not be talking about Chicago.

[alwayssunnyinfl]

Wow, a major metro has some rundown parts. Color me shocked.

ETA: And we have some places in Miami that make that look pretty nice.

[PRgradBYU]

LOL at the people predicting a #4 spot for UVA.

Too conservative?

You totally read my mind. I was thinking UVA would be the school to finally oust YLS this year.

North, 1985 called. They want their keyboard back.

Rule of thumb: If your keyboard is white--and it's not made by Apple--it's probably time for a new keyboard.

[holmesboy]

Blatant anti oriental noodle trolling.

[20141023]

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