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<strong>Good School - Great Ultimate Frisbee Team:</strong> When selecting a school, many look to US News and World Report or other rankings to determine the relative strength of a particular school. However, one University of Washington professor suggests that students may need to look no farther than the national rankings for Ultimate Frisbee. When academic rankings are compared with the "power rankings" for Ultimate, he noticed that all the schools in the top half of the Frisbee rankings were also in the top half of academic performance. Private schools in the top half of the Ultimate standings had also produced 208 Rhodes and Marshall scholars; those in the bottom half had only produced 15. The top seven private schools in Ultimate: Stanford, Brown, Harvard, Tufts, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton. Public schools showed a similar correlation.


source: November 2006 Ivy Jungle Update citing New York Times, Education Life November 5, 2006 p. 7 tags: College

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