Talk:Ezra Stiles College

message: The article states that it is "generally agreed" that Stiles has disproportionately more athletes and science majors than other colleges.  I'm not sure there's general agreement on this point.  Any statistical support?  So far as I know, students are distributed largely by social security number, and athletes have no special ability to influence what college they attend.  What distinguishes Stiles' student body is the fact is has relatively fewer children of alumni.  This is because the college's youth means that it has fewer alumni, and because children of Stiles alumni probably choose not to be in the college more than children of other colleges' alumni (because of its ugliness).
Moreover, it's interesting that Stiles now has a reputation for having more athletes than the norm.  In its earliest years, it had a reputation as the nerdy college because it had so few alumni children and because it won the Gimbel Cup many years in a row.  (Perhaps that is the genesis of the "science major overrepresentation" rumor.)  The college's recent success in the 1990's and 2000's in the Tyng Cup is more a result of high participation encouraged by engaged masters than the presence of more athletes.
I would propose to strike the unsupported reference and replace it with an analysis more along the lines of the above.  --Splinters 17:15, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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message: Bill Grant has moved the pages for each of the 14 Yale College residential colleges to new pages, each named "[College Name], Yale". He has done so apparently without discussion—at least without discussion on the Talk pages of Residential colleges of Yale University, Yale College, Yale University, or Ezra Stiles College. I don't think these moves are necessary, nor that "College Name, Yale" would necessarily be the best name if they were. So I've reverted the move, pending discussion at Residential colleges of Yale University. PRRfan (talk) 14:29, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
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