I find this topic interesting, so I'll copy/paste what I wrote to the Exeter guy because I think it applies to you. Did your cousin go to a merely average public school?

I'm familiar with Exeter (and Andover, and Groton, ...). I think it goes both ways though. I went to a shitty, public high school in a heavily latino neighborhood in Southern California. The valedictorian had his pick of Princeton/Harvard, salutatorian went to Stanford, and the rest of the top 10 had ivy offers and…

I totally agree about the subjectivity of those questions. I want to say I like the AP test because the essay and short answer questions give you the opportunity to support whatever subjective interpretation you choose — and you're then graded on the merit of that support.

That I can believe, actually. But not even the intro physics class GE for non-physics/engineering majors?

That's funky. I've heard of some (privileged) schools offering both separately, but usually it's just one or the other.

I can't be the only one who thought AP courses were way harder than intro college courses, can I?

IB isn't a subset of AP. It's its own thing.

Thanks for clarifying that your number on Exeter-to-Ivy matriculation wasn't just an opinion.

Exactly. And while Simmons' has proven to be pretty adept at talent hiring and setting the overall direction for grantland, I'm assuming the monetization strategy might be above his pay grade (figuratively and literally).

Grantland is "broke" (sort of) in that it makes no money. It's funded by and dependent on ESPN which takes a loss on it. Were ESPN to yank its support, Grantland would cease to be.

Grantland is a money-losing prestige project. One that I'm glad exists because the writing, stories, and analyses are heads and shoulders above typical large sports media outlets (and it's probably had a halo effect that's elevated sportswriting in general), but still a money losing one.

That's a great cartoon.

I would think that strategy-wise, if there's no other contestants to worry about, game theory goes out the window and she just bets her comfort/familiarity level with the category.

I believe that. I'd mentally been keeping a food diary and knew the caloric/macro totals, but it's not until you keep a real one (if for only a few days) that you realize the hidden calories you're getting from (seemingly) small snacks and booze.

No. Different accents, occasionally different nouns, but they're the same language. It's no different from how a Californian can discern a Bostonian's provenance by his/her accent and the use of "bubbler" for water fountain (or some other noun that's unique to there).

I suppose it would if Belgium didn't already have such a rich beer tradition. Which I suspect (I don't know, I'm just talking out of my ass here) has more to do with Duvel's quality than a shared language.*

Oh trust me, I tried to muster anger and disdain... partly out of muscle memory, partly out of us being two faceless folks on the internet communicating and that's just what we're supposed to do.

You may want to read the article some more.

Ah. With regard to the attitudes, I believe you've maneuvered into checkmate. I concede.

LAX's international terminal has been renovated, brah.