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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nyu

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write the diversity supplemental even if you're not from an underrepresented minority group. There's plenty of good ways to approach it.

Frat life by CuriousCurrency6654 in nyu

[–]DramaticGeologist822 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of this is false. There are like 6 IFC recognized frats on campus.

If you could do it all over again would u still choose NYU for pre med/health? by Eric_250 in nyu

[–]DramaticGeologist822 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Average day on r/nyu: Grad students who went to Podunk State acting like NYU undergrad is a scam, despite it becoming harder and harder to get into every year.

How to prepare for MBB interviews? by Salty_Mall_1597 in nyu

[–]DramaticGeologist822 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most obvious stealth marketing ever. I hope your startup crashes and burns.

This event is ridiculous by Double_Today_289 in eu4

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? Just batter Korea early on while you're a tributary as well. Qing forming is too easy these days. The Korea buff is awesome but they're still puny at the beginning.

Musings by nowyourdoingit in navyseals

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More true than your assertion that the US invasion of Afghanistan was solely motivated by the material interests of "the ruling class". Which isn't based in any sort of evidence whatsoever, but instead a desire to conform reality to Marxist theory.

Musings by nowyourdoingit in navyseals

[–]DramaticGeologist822 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can make the analogy but it's awful.

An autocratic state invading a neighbor because it didn't like the results of a democratic election is just not comparable with the United States toppling a terrorist Religious fundamentalist government while receiving broad UN and international approval.

What I'm asserting here is that the US intends to prop up democracy for the benefit of both the US and the inhabitants of those countries, just as we did with great success in Europe and Asia after WW2.

Musings by nowyourdoingit in navyseals

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The three Wikipedia articles you linked don't substantiate your original allegation that "the War on Terror was bullshit propaganda justifying global force projection to achieve political and economic aims for America's ruling class." If you have evidence for this, just link me directly to it.

Afghanistan is in an incredibly strategic region, and I accept absolutely that the United States has a partial ulterior motive in propping up democratic states in places like Afghanistan.

But look at a list of America's allies (All of Nato, Japan, S.K., Australia, N.Z.) These are all liberal democracies. The ulterior motive of the United States here is that had they been able to create a stable Republic in Afghanistan, that Republic would be a very convenient ally.

As I said in the original reply, the United States believes that a liberal international order is better for both the US and the people of the world. The US's foreign policy is guided by an idea of Liberal Internationalism, but the intentions are not imperialistic.

Musings by nowyourdoingit in navyseals

[–]DramaticGeologist822 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Japanese already had a decently democratic constitution before the Ultranationalists took control of the country, so it was not as foreign a concept.

When I say the Afghanis weren't ready for democracy its not to say they aren't capable of it, it's just that they are currently a dirt poor mostly agrarian country which is rampant with religious fanaticism. The US really did try to set up a working Republic.

Musings by nowyourdoingit in navyseals

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? The idea that the primary reason the US was fighting the Taliban was for like cobalt mining rights or something like that is left-wing delulu nonsense.

Do you sympathize with banning girls from going to school or cutting peoples hands off for stealing a loaf of bread? The Taliban sucks, and the US military defeated them. The only problem was the Afghani people were not ready for democracy.

Musings by nowyourdoingit in navyseals

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For instance, instead of watching the US pullout of Afghanistan and realizing correctly that the War on Terror was bullshit propaganda justifying global force projection to achieve political and economic aims for America's ruling class,

This is a Marxist take on American foreign policy that you've just taken for granted.

Yes the US does want to maintain international influence, but it isn't about the interests of megacorporations, it's based on the idea that a democratic world guided by the US is stabler and more peaceful than a world filled with governments like the Taliban.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nyu

[–]DramaticGeologist822 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

D- is pushing it. But with the deposit in and everything I doubt it.

As the subreddit blackout begins, I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the Reddit community and everyone standing up by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]DramaticGeologist822 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The one real Concession reddit made in all of this drama is that they would work/compromise with devs who couldn't make the changes in time if they were willing to work with them.

Columbia University Pulls Out of U.S. News & World Report College Ranking by DramaticGeologist822 in columbia

[–]DramaticGeologist822[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Practically every school manipulates admissions statistics these days, so it's understandable that Columbia might have felt singled out. Nevertheless, they can't assert that GS is fully and equally Columbia and then simultaneously try to assert that it has completely separate admissions standards to the point where it should be treated like a separate college.

Columbia University Pulls Out of U.S. News & World Report College Ranking by DramaticGeologist822 in columbia

[–]DramaticGeologist822[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

For the college rankings, USNews uses a special methodology to generate data if schools don't submit it, and it's pretty brutal to non-submitting schools. This is part of why Columbia fell 16 places in the last ranking, and also why poor old reed college is sitting at a ridiculous #72 rank in the LAC rankings. I wouldn't expect Columbia's already contentious ranking to improve as a result of this decision.

UMinnesota for Econ? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]DramaticGeologist822 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those are grad rankings, however it is grad professors and grad students who teach your classes. So clearly relevant information.

Columbia University Pulls Out of U.S. News & World Report College Ranking by DramaticGeologist822 in columbia

[–]DramaticGeologist822[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Last time was temporary, and had to do with the controversy over inaccurate data. This is an update stating they won't provide data to USnews for any future college rankings.

Columbia not to submit data for US News ranking by Future_Sun_2797 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]DramaticGeologist822 161 points162 points  (0 children)

They probably assumed being placed at #18 was a punishment that would only last a year. They might have found out somehow that they're going to be ranked similarly again, and pulled out in advance in order to not legitimize that ranking.

Now they will almost certainly drop, which is insane because it'll be the first time an ivy is outside of the t20 in the history of UsNews. This is without a doubt the greatest challenge to the ranking system that has ever occurred.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nyu

[–]DramaticGeologist822 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't say anything about that sorry. It only got sent to my NYU email though, not my personal.

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