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I am dad of one of Whitworth's players and I enjoy following this blog.  You guys are great.  I just wanted to comment on Tglassman51's post about the differences in SAT scores between the schools.  I am a prof at Stanford so there is lot's of talk about SAT scores here and what they mean and there are three things to note about the score differences between WW and UPS:
1. It takes about a 100 point difference in scores to predict a difference in how two students will perform.
2.  There probably is not a statistical difference, and absolutely no difference in predicting academic performance between the two groups of students based on the differences between those SAT scores.
3.  Whitworth is a more touchy/feely kind of place than UPS.  They like to say they look at the whole person.  In some ways you could see this in my UW medical school class.  The UPS person (note singular person who got in from UPS that year) was always attending the business of medicine type extra lectures while us Whitworth types (note plural--more than 1 in the class) were mainstays in the international medicine and inner city clinic groups.

Finally, when I was in medical school at the UW I did not notice any difference in the intelligence level between my fellow students from the different NWC schools.  However, I was amazed at the how much pharmacology the Whitman students knew before we even started classes.