Actually Carolina referred to how I said Howard students were over-achievers. This is clearly in reference to the school and not an eligible pool of NPHC candidates. Of course there is some confusion and I'm open to clearing that up (though it has little relevance at this point).
As for statistics, you are free to post some. But don't try and call something faulty without proof otherwise.
By the way, since you weren't an Econ major, I would refrain from talking about econ as if it's just all based on stats. Most people in any subject do rely on data and documents from History to Econ to come up with conclusions and arguments (it's called evidence). In fact I believe once you finish law school, you will see lawyers in courts submit documents, facts, data, etc. as evidence quite frequently.
-Rudey
--PS I major in Public Policy also and did the whole science track.
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Originally posted by Phasad1913
This is what CarolinaCutie originally said regarding "the best of the best":
She OBVIOUSLY meant the students at Howard who comprise the applicant pool of eligible candidates for membership in NPHC orgs. Not the school with relationship to other schools.
This is what YOU then asked:
CarolinaCutie THEN explained:
You then went of on the tangent that you wanted to go off on to begin with DESPITE the FACT that CarolinaCutie promptly clarified what it was that she meant by "best of the best". So, NO ONE ever said that Howard was the Best of the Best of American schools even though anyone could argue that it is based on THEIR personal subjective interpretation of what constitutes the best.
I have a tremendous amount of admiration and respect for Howard and many other HBCU's. I am not an alumnus of one, but my older sister is and she had a totally different set of experiences than me and is incredibly smart and is very content with her career. So, what is YOUR basis for insinuating that Howard is NOT the best of the best, since you brought it up? If students are successful, prepared and doing fine post-graduation, who is to say which of their schools were better? if you are basing your rationale of test scores and pre-matriculation statistics, than your data-reality reasoning is quite faulty and YOU as a U of C alum ought to be ashamed of using that kind of deductive reasoning. Peopla come from all walks of life to each and every college and university in America and some sets of statistics will never be able to define which schools are better than others.
Once again, since you are an econ major, you invoke your tendancy to rely on stats, data, and documents to form your opinions. I, on the other hand, rely more on real life, person to person experiences, history and social relationships to define for me what is real and what is "theoretical".
Doesn't really matter, though, because in the end, as we have seen here, YOU went off on a tangent (and was proven wrong) because YOU have a certain belief that YOU wanted to express here based on a faulty sense of empirical support. That's too bad because too often we see that reliance just on those types of things leaves too much room for mistake and ignorance.
Off to enjoy my weekend. Go Howard!!
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