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Every November, two percent of the senior class is initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa society on the strength of their junior year grades and faculty recommendations, branding themselves forevermore as Very Smart People. The other eight percent are elected in the spring, but these lucky kids get a leg up on their job applications and one of the nicest Christmas presents an ambitious Columbia College student could ask for. This year’s class, reprinted after the jump, is composed of 25 percent Econ/Math majors and 40 percent people without Facebook profiles. The question is this: are they too studying too hard to use Facebook or just too smart to leave electronic footprints ?
– LBD
Arun Chandrasekhar
Terence Choy
Maria Coelho
Clay Cordova
Jonathan DePeri
Caryn Epstein
Christopher Fasano
Daniel Fridman
Maryl Goldberg
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs
Subash Iyer
Jonathan Kief
Nicholas Klagge
Claire Lackner
Casey Levine
Lauren Pardee
Lara Silberklang
Allison Turza
Daniel Wulin
Kira Yugay
Congratulations, all!
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@pbk hunter i had sexual intercourse with at least 6 of them. so that’s about 30% to begin with.
@Alum Doesn’t 20 seem like more than 2%, or have they sneakily upped the class size in the past few years after they said they wouldn’t?
@You silly alum 2% x 50 = 100%
20 x 50 = 1000 students
1000~Roughly the size of CC
SEAS doesn’t have pbk
QED.
@oh yeah? I’ll… stop *YOUR* whining.
sigh. I’m so inarticulate. Everywhere that matters, I have something that I think, something that I feel, but I just can’t express myself.
I worry that I’m just not smart enough to ever be as good as these people. Cutting them down anonymously is cathartic for me. Please respect this :(
@shut the fuck up. Just shut the fuck up. And sit down.
@gome i know one of this kids.
went to school with him.
quite awesome and not the stereotype whatsoever.
so thus. quoting arnold. stop your whining.
@i actually know quite a few of them. more than one would expect given our class sizes and the ‘smart people are recluses’ hypothesis.
@... 1. i’ve never heard of any of these people.
2. i’m a senior.
3. i’m at butler all the time and never socialize.
@nick klagge is wicked smart and cool
@wish i were smarter i’ve never heard of any of these people. probably because they’re holed up in butler while i’m out socializing
@AHHHH all you little brats who have done anything but congratulate these people need to shut the fuck up. these seniors are all incredible. i am absolutely floored by their accomplishment and I admire them all a great deal. congratulations you guys, I applaud your hard work.
@Good News! I just found out I failed two courses this semester, but I also saved a boatload on my car insurance by switching to Geico!
@that's because you’re a sophomore, you idiot. 4.19 my ass.
@pooper I didn’t get phi beta kappa with a 4.19…but I did turn $100 into $50,000 playing poker online.
@early PBK inductee Class of ’06. I had a GPA of 4.026 or thereabouts. I was a history major who took almost all humanities courses (history, philosophy, art history, film studies, English, French). And I wasn’t a virgin.
@bring out the brass band for you. let’s throw a parade.
@or... maybe they read while having sex — kills two birds with one stone, ya?
@sexmuch? what percentage of these college seniors have never gotten laid? i’d ballpark it at 45%.
@Asians are underrepresented
@stat breakdown? i’d love to know the racial, religious, economic, educational (private vs. public hs), etc. breakdown of phi beta inductees
@PBK Caryn’s all smart and shit. Talk about it.
@columbiaissolame this is such a lame discussion. why don’t you all knock back a valium or two and relax.
@Hehe Why don’t you just comment once and relax?
@columbiaissolame this is such a lame discussion. why don’t you all knock by a valium and relax.
@cum este lauder cum laude: having a pulse
magna cum laude: “adequate” fellatio technique as rated in the core guidelines
summa cum laude: virginity
@mathtype I think there’s actually a very close intellectual relationship between philosophy and math, and there are quite a few people who excel at both. But I don’t know a lot of Math-French Lit. double-majors with 4.0’s.
I’m also dying to know what the GPA’s of Phi Beta Kappa inductees are. Also, does anyone know the rough guidelines for Latin honors?
@but it depends on what the essay is about and what kind of professor it’s for.
it all comes down to what your brain is wired to do, really. if you’re a math kind of guy, you’re not going to be as good at philosophy and the like, and vice versa too.
@hello My friend got in with a GPA a tad over 4.0 since you’re wondering.
In response to #15, it’s probably true that it’s easier to get consistently good grades in math/econ/science classes than humanities classes, but I would also say it’s easier to write an essay than to learn quantum physics.
@A better question I think it would be helpful just to know: what is the GPA cutoff required for faculty to be able to nominate students? I.e. what is the minimum elibility?
@whatevs congrats smart students!
everyone else, stop being jealous/petty.
@bah ” 25 percent Econ/Math majors ”
ridiculous. of course you can have a 4.3 or whatever if you ace all your math and econ tests and problem sets. even the best A on a humanities paper or exam, though, is vague, and the subjectivity of the grading process will always result in anomalies like A-s and B+s. the end result? totally inarticulate valedict- and salutatorians.
@hahahaha hahahahhaaa omg I’m still dying at your spin, bwog. I have to say that I have really always wondered if the people with the highest grades use facebook at all, or if it really is just for us losers…
The percentage of PBK winter nominees with facebook profiles is exactly the sort of thing that is interesting and I want to know.
Thanks, bwog!
@phi bete it’s all about faculty recs. i knew kids with 4.0s shut out and 3.7s who got in
@lame prestigewhore does anyone know what kind of grades these kids are getting? are we talking 4.0? 4.05? 4.1? 4.33?!?
and are they based on junior year grades alone or all grades up through junior year?
i know it’s sort of gross to ask, but inquiring minds want to know. i suppose if they aren’t on facebook, they aren’t reading the bwog, but i thought i’d ask…
@my guess is probably in the 4.05 range and above. but that’s just a guess.
@WHY isn’t “Facebook” capitalized? And why do you have to use two hyphens instead of one dash??
@exie two hyphens instead of one dash reflects a habit of having word automatically turn the two hyphens into a long dash.
@what about ‘nards?
@cupcake what ABOUT ‘nards?
@Bwogdidn't get in Quote:
“are they too studying too hard to use facebook”
@Phi Beta Crab I heard they couldn’t find anyone in GS for PBK this year, so they’re gonna cancel their chapter
@phi bete Faculty nominate you.
@confused I don’t really understand the election process & nomination form. My GPA is very high, and I have challenging courses, but I do not really go around telling my friends what my grades are, etc. Am I supposed to start telling my friends about my 4.0+ GPA and imply that they nominate me? I don’t really understand this system. I would like to be nominated in the Spring, but I don’t really want to have to campaign.
@wow I actually hate people like you
@odse losers!