BYU`s incoming freshman class AMAZING

The sea yields to knowledge wrote:

Easy Button wrote:

BYU is an easy school. Ever been there ? No Orientals, No Indians, No Pakistanis, No Iranians, No Jews. You can get an easy A in every calculus, physics, chemistry, and biology class. The only problem for Americans is that they make you take three (I think) hate classes in order to graduate. I don't hate anyone myself.

If you think BYU isn't a good school, you are mistaken.

BYU is a good school like every other so-so school ranked between 50 and infinity. Zoobs act like its ivy of the mountain states. I sat in a couple classes there once and the classroom experience was indistinguishable from that of any average state school.

More importantly it lacks diversity in terms of thought or experiences, which is an important component of any well-rounded, quality education.

asdfasdf wrote:

from a non mormon wrote:

The Mormons have the best young basketball talent since Lebron.

Who would that be?

Jabari Parker from Chicago.

I want to apologize for my postings yesterday. Upon further reflection, I believe I did not go about expressing my thoughts in the manner that I should have. I resorted to personal attacks that were unnecessary and did not add to the discussion. I have strong, and I believe well-informed, opinions on these issues, but I could have done a better job of expressing them. For that, I am sorry.

When one repents it leads to a clean and purer heart. It can only make you a better person. One of the keys is to learn from this and move forward. I wish you peace and joy and hope others on this god forsaken site can take notice.

watchout wrote:

Amazing that you can think "to the celestial kingdom to Dickson" can be a proper sentence, and then nitpick about someone saying it doesn't make sense or even complain that "that doesn't seem to make sense to me" is actually incorrect enough to complain about.

By the way, you're wrong about #2 as well. But that's okay.

Oh yeah, that first sentence certainly taught me a thing or two about writing for clarity. Thanks! I guess you must be one of those "shadow" coaches because I know where you coach officially and there are no colleges beating down those doors, except maybe Evergreen.

The sea yields to knowledge wrote:

If you think BYU isn't a good school, you are mistaken.

BYU isn't even a top 70 school. Top-50 is usually considered to be upper tier and, frankly, there are some crappy schools even in the top 50. If you think it is a good school, you have been brain-washed. Then again, if you support BYU in any way, it is likely that you are part of a group of individuals that have been brain-washed since birth, so rather than argue with you, I will just express to you my pity for having wasted your entire existence on a lie.

VO2 wrote:

You obviously were never taught sentence diagramming in school.

sense (noun) to (verb) me (noun).

Funy but I was awlways teched that "tO" is a PREPASITION.

You reetard!

Frankly , I seriously doubt that if you were in the top rated school in the world I would hire you. You sound like a total jerk that only accepts your own viewpoint.

I want to express my pity for you for having wasted your entire existence acting like a first class ass. I hire jews,mormons and everything else but you I would not hire.

BYU represents the worst in mormons. Judgmental, cocky, and all of it done with a sense that they're the ones in the right and everyone else is in the wrong. By the way Farnsworth it's not hard to get all the recruits in Utah when you're brainwashed from birth to love BYU.... Just saying

Raptured wrote:

The sea yields to knowledge wrote:

If you think BYU isn't a good school, you are mistaken.

BYU isn't even a top 70 school. Top-50 is usually considered to be upper tier and, frankly, there are some crappy schools even in the top 50. If you think it is a good school, you have been brain-washed. Then again, if you support BYU in any way, it is likely that you are part of a group of individuals that have been brain-washed since birth, so rather than argue with you, I will just express to you my pity for having wasted your entire existence on a lie.

BYU has one of the most multilingual student bodies in the country, and has a great track record for sending students on to advanced studies. No one's saying it's Harvard, but it's a good school.

Oh, and no need to feel sorry for me, I haven't dedicated any significant part of my existence to thinking that BYU was a good school.

Haters gonna hate

I ran with Golden the year after he came back from his mission. There are very few distance scholarships. Golden didn't want to race track, only cross country. There are no cross country scholarships, only track. Golden knew this. So he would race, but wear flats and not spikes. Didn't show up for practice. Ed's pertty good about dealing with fragile guys. Rohat had one hard workout a week because of injury issues. Golden's a nice guy, but was delusional about the value he added.

VO2 wrote:

watchout wrote:

Amazing that you can think "to the celestial kingdom to Dickson" can be a proper sentence, and then nitpick about someone saying it doesn't make sense or even complain that "that doesn't seem to make sense to me" is actually incorrect enough to complain about.

By the way, you're wrong about #2 as well. But that's okay.

Oh yeah, that first sentence certainly taught me a thing or two about writing for clarity. Thanks! I guess you must be one of those "shadow" coaches because I know where you coach officially and there are no colleges beating down those doors, except maybe Evergreen.

Sure you do. If you did, you'd know the program is quite a bit different than when I first started helping out. Either way, let's keep your opinions of the kids I help out off the message boards, alright?

Does BYU run on sunday??? I know they wont compete on Sundays but I was curious as to whether or not Eyestone has them do training runs

No they do not run on Sundays.

BYU, SUU, Utah State, UVU, Weber are all great colleges I don't think everybody at BYU is as arrogant about their position as you think.

From Wikipedia:

BYU accepted 68% of the 10,409 people who applied for admission in the summer term and fall semester of 2009.[30] The average ACT score and GPA for these admitted students was 28.2 and 3.8, respectively.[30]

U.S. News and World Report describes BYU's selectivity as being "more selective" and compares it with such universities as the University of Texas and The Ohio State University.[31][32][33]

In addition, BYU is ranked 26th in colleges with the most freshman Merit Scholars, with 88 in 2006.[34] For the past two years, BYU outranked every university in the country including Harvard University for the percentage of accepted applicants that go on to enroll (78% vs. 76% for Harvard).[35] For 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked BYU as #71 for national universities in the United States.[45] The Princeton Review has ranked BYU the best value for college in 2007,[46] and its library is consistently ranked in the nation's top ten—#1 in 2004 and #4 in 2007.[47] BYU is also ranked #19 in the U.S. News and World Report's "Great Schools, Great Prices" lineup, and #12 in lowest student-incurred debt.[48] Due in part to the school's emphasis on undergraduate research, BYU is ranked #10 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs, #1 nationally for students who go on to dental school, #6 nationally for students who go on to law school, and #10 nationally for students who go on to medical school.[49] BYU is designated as a research university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.[50]

In 2009, the university's Marriott School of Management received a #5 ranking by BusinessWeek for its undergraduate programs,[51] and its MBA program was ranked by several sources: #22 ranking by BusinessWeek,[51] #16 by Forbes,[52] and #29 by U.S. News & World Report.[53] Among regional schools the MBA program was ranked #1 by The Wall Street Journal's most recent ranking (2007),[54] and it was ranked #92 among business schools worldwide in 2009 by Financial Times.[55] For 2009, the university's School of Accountancy, which is housed within the Marriott School, received two #3 rankings for its undergraduate program—one by Public Accounting Report and the other by U.S. News & World Report.[56][57] The same two reporting agencies also ranked the school's MAcc program #3 and #8 in the nation, respectively.[56][58] In prestigious scholarships, BYU has produced 10 Rhodes Scholars,[65] four Gates Scholars in the last six years, and in the last decade has claimed 41 Fulbright scholars and 3 Jack Kent Cooke scholars.[66]

Over three quarters of the student body have some proficiency in a second language (numbering 107 languages in total).[67] This is partially due to the fact that 45% of the student body at BYU have been missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and many of them learned a foreign language as part of their mission assignment.[68] During any given semester, about one-third of the student body is enrolled in foreign language classes, a rate nearly four times the national average.[67]

Several of its language programs are the largest of their kind in the nation, the Russian[69] program being one example. The university was selected by the United States Department of Education as the location of the national Middle East Language Resource Center, making the school a hub for experts on that region.[69] It was also selected as a Center for International Business Education Research, a function of which is to train business employees in international languages and relations.[67]

In 2001, the Institute of International Education ranked BYU as the number one university in the U.S. to offer students study abroad opportunities.

The BYU Ballroom Dance Company is known as one of the best formation ballroom dance teams in the world,[118] having won the U.S. National Formation Dance Championship every year since 1982.

In addition, BYU has a number of other notable dance teams and programs. These teams range from Theater Ballet to the International Folk Dance Ensemble. BYU boasts one of the largest dance departments in the nation.

The Princeton Review has rated BYU the "#1 stone cold sober school" in the nation for several years running.

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http://yfacts.byu.edu

BYU is an excellent school in many ways!

Burn-out Central wrote:

Agreed that most top teams experience major drop-out/lack of progression but BYU is especially bad. They are the talent graveyard of Utah. Guys like Bybee, Goodwin, and Golden Harper should have been NCAA team champs. BYU's only distance guys making nats in track this year are graduating (minus Ward). They are deep and talented and will make top 5 when the stars align every 5 years or so but I think BYU will never truly be on the level of Stanford, Oregon, OSU, Wisco, Arkansas etc. Eyestone is a horrible coach...his guys are running hard from Sept. trying to make the team and he hopes enough survive that he has a decent team in Nov. What is Batty doing running PR's in indoor in an Olympic year? Seems like bad management and none of there guys do anything post college as of late.

Hey, so I think Batty peaked at the right time. Maybe Eyestone should incorporate diving lessons into practice now.

So... I don't think anyone argued against this ridiculous middle distance recruiting class. Sork, Dickson, Nye, Harris. They're all studs! The majority of this class will go on their missions either this year or next. Not to have 2 extra years on their competitors, but to serve their church. A lot of them are going to BYU to get away from the parties and all of the alcoholics and stoners nowadays. It is a good place for people with high standards. This thread changed from talking running to mormon bashing. BYU will have a STACKED DMR when it goes Sork-1200m, Shaq Walker 800m, and Dickson 1600m. And when it comes to BYU, Ed Eyestone,the mormon church and the church's two year mission, I guess that haters are gonna hate.