Cool! When do they crack the second, third, and fourth seals to let the other horsemen out?

Mike, if you see this, just kidding there big boi…you’ve got my vote.

/except I can’t vote in North Carolina
//hey, there’s a “Carolina” in my state name, too…can I cast half a vote for you?

I just stumbled onto your blog through friends’ but I wanted to comment because I grew up in Jackson and am now a graduating senior (4 days left!) here at Duke. . .

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on the quality of students at Millsaps vs. Duke. . . Millsaps offered me a full scholarship in HS and aggressively recruited me and one of my friends (now a graduating senior at Yale). Our impression of Millsaps was that it was the small, private alternate to Ole Miss. . .we didn’t find the academic offerings they had very stimulating. Of course that could just be our biases. . .

Anyways, good luck in St. Louis!

(And no, I’m not a poli sci major either)

I wish I could edit my posts…

anyways, that would be *friends’ blogs and *alternative

Emily, I’d say by and large that the students at Millsaps were better than those at Ole Miss—the description I usually gave was that it was like cutting off the bottom 50% of the distribution. The best students at Millsaps were quite comparable to the best at Ole Miss, but the weakest Millsaps student would be comparable to a “fairly good” Ole Miss student.

Mind you, the typical Duke or Yale student is quite a bit brighter than the average Millsaps student, but I’d say that about 20–25% of the Millsaps students I taught would have been highly successful at Duke.

As a small college, a place like Millsaps just won’t offer the variety of courses and majors you can find at any large institution (public or private, selective or not).

Anyway, that’s my 2¢!

Scott: I’m coming down there.

And I’ve got your “vote” right here, man.