College Connection
It’s SIR season, so let’s continue last year’s discussion…
Where were you accepted?
Where are you going?
What about your teammates?
Anyone planning to continue debate in college?
Anyone planning to come back to high school parli to judge, coach, etc.?
a list of all college debate programs in the United States
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Congress is useless. Parli can can you a small scholarship or bump you off the waitlist at some privates, though nothing as big as policy.
They don’t necessarily recruit them for debate, but it does definitely help you get in if you do well. Plenty of my congress students have gone on to amazing schools.
Well my year was pretty stressful once the responses started rolling, but it turned out okay.
Willamette–Accepted
U Portland–Accepted
Northwestern–Rejected
UCLA–Rejected
Berkeley–Rejected
Carleton College–Waitlisted
Macalester College–Waitlisted
UChicago–Z-listed (accepted, but for the following fall–I was originally waitlisted)
It turned out alright, though! I’m taking the gap year that UChicago offered me. I’ll do a year of NPDA locally and then do either NPDA or APDA once I’m at Chicago. (:
As for some of my teammates,
Adam Ahrens–Berkeley
Josh Colburn–American
Zach Schneider–I think he finally decided on American too
Nhada Ahmed is deciding between UoP (chosen for Legal Scholars program) and Santa Clara.
Catherine Lan is in at Georgetown and is waitlisted at Harvard. She’ll go to Harvard if she gets in there-she flew right from State to meet with her admissions councilor, so we’ll see.
I will be attending New York University in the fall for public health policy, and am seriously considering joining their APDA team. Regardless, I am excited to judge IE tournaments in the five boroughs and am looking forward to a big parli reunion at MLK. I applied early decision, so I was neither accepted nor rejected anywhere else.
For rest the Analy Debate team:
Alia Williams- UC Santa Cruz
Luke Lindenbusch- NYU
Kota Mizutani- Brown University
Grayson Dimick- UC Berkeley (unless Harvard miraculously accepts me off the waitlist)
I’m not currently planning on debating in college, but will absolutely be around to judge parli for both GGSA and invitationals, and hopefully will have the opportunity to help coach a Bay Area team.
You should at least give the APDA or NPDA teams at cal a chance!
Headed to Lewis and Clark in the fall! I’ll be debating for them as well.
@Lindenbusch
Definitely join the NYU APDA team! I know the NYU team pretty well, and they’re a good group of people. Also, APDA’s a lot of fun!
I am still choosing between Stanford and Princeton, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to Stanford. Adam is going to Yale. I am seriously considering joining Stanford’s policy team and may coach try to coach for paly next year.
Stanford has a policy team?
Yeah, it’s really small. I think they broke a team at the NDT this year though
@Armand: Yes. They were actually featured on the front page of the Daily a few weeks ago…!
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/04/11/policy-debate-team-revitalized-by-new-coach/
That’s awesome. Good to see REAL debate coming back to Stanford.
I applied to…
-UC Davis: Accepted
-UC Santa Cruz: Accepted
-UC Santa Barbara: Accepted
-UC Los Angeles: Rejected
-UC Berkeley: Accepted to Spring Term
-Tufts: Rejected
-Carnegie: Rejected
A hard decision, but my next four years will be spent at UC Davis.
My wonderful Parli Partner Nick Rose will be attending UC Berkeley
At the moment, I do not plan on competing in NPDA league… But I do plan on coming back to GGSA and judging for home team Analy as well as reminiscing the good and bad times at the MLK and Stanford Invitationals.