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For some reason I can't reply to a comment that said > Author is biased, probably couldn't get to one of those schools... Ad hominem attack, but I was amused

For some reason I can't reply to a comment that said > Author is biased, probably couldn't get to one of those schools... Ad hominem attack, but I was amused even though the facts don't precisely support the accusation. It is technically true that Prof. Carter didn't attend an Ivy League school as an undergraduate - he went to Stanford, which (currently) plays in the Pac-12 and NCAA division I. Of course that doesn't tell us whether he received admission offers from any of the Ivies at that time - it seems likely that he would have. But the reason I rate the implication "false" is because he subsequently attended and graduated from Yale's law school and currently teaches there.

whimsicalism 4y ago
Because it was marked dead. replying to flame bait comments is precisely what HN tries to avoid when it does that, but you found your workaround :)
- musicale 4y ago
  Hmm, I don't think I would have been quite as quick to hit the flag button. The (now missing?) PP comment to me read "probably couldn't get into an Ivy" with the crux being that Stanford is of course not part of the Ivy League. (But Yale Law School is certainly part of Yale, though iirc it's rare for graduate or professional students to play in the NCAA due to eligibility.) Sometimes people forget that the Ivy League isn't a classification of elite schools but actually an athletic conference; this is of course directly relevant to the issue of athletic scholarships which is under discussion.
  - metadat 4y ago
    On your profile page there is a setting called "Show dead", enable it if you want to see the skeleton threads.
    - musicale 4y ago
      Interesting, thanks.