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Dartmouth, and the JTD Problem.

Its applications are down fourteen percent this year due to the JTD (Just Too Disgusting) problem.

The Rolling Stone article about its way-past-you-could-puke frat system probably accounts for about five percent of the drop (“There’s been a lot of turnover [of staff] in the Dean of the College and other offices . . . and fraternities have been left somewhat to their own devices,” [one alumnus] said. “It’s become a bit of a ‘Lord of the Flies’ situation.”).

The rest of the drop might be parceled out between catastrophic credit swaps courtesy of grown up frat boys, and of course Christopher Kipouras.

Margaret Soltan, February 26, 2014 9:24AM
Posted in: just plain gross

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3 Responses to “Dartmouth, and the JTD Problem.”

  1. Greg Says:

    The only thing that gave me pause was “grown up” as vs say “superannuated.” But then I realized that scare quotes are sometimes better when implicit.

  2. Alan Allport Says:

    “Dartmouth slightly less successful than other Ivies this year at conning no-hope applicants into donating money for the sole purpose of inflating its selectivity percentage.”

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Alan: Absolutely. That’s one of the bigger scams about which American suckers remain largely ignorant. Endless come-on letters from Harvard telling rubes they have a chance of getting accepted. An admirable use of their 35 billion dollar endowment.

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