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Admissions decisions are online now! It feels like the Terrible Twelves barely had time to learn how to pronounce ‘Schermerhorn’ before being shunted aside by the newer model, but such is the circle of life. It moves us all.
As the Spec reported, regular-decision acceptances were sent off yesterday with pomp, circumstance, and “a middle-aged man wrapped in a light blue flag.” Welcome, Class of 2013. Oh, the nickname you’re going to get, once we think of one.
Columbia issued polite invitations to some 2,496 high school seniors to make Alma Mater their new boss come September. The overall acceptance rate was 9.82, with a CC acceptance rate of 8.92 (up from last year) and a SEAS rate of 14.42 (down). This year yields, yet again, the lowest admissions rate ever.
Congratulations, and we’ll see you at Days On Campus, looking for that elusive owl.
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@the mta weighs in when you stop at hoyt-schermerhorn station, the conductors pronounce it Skermerhorn
@Wrong Place for that question.
Columbia.
@Alum In my four years at Columbia (and in the many since then), I never heard anyone say “Shermerhorn”. As others have noted, the name is Dutch and is pronounced “Skermerhorn”. That is not an Americanization; it is the correct, original pronunciation.
Michael I. Pupin (for whom the physics/astronomy building is named) pronounced his name “Pyoo-PEEN”, so Prezbo and Blaer are correct. Even so, most people (including me) call the building “PYOO-pin” because that sounds so much more natural in English.
@should I Go to Harvard or Columbia?
@Bollinger said Pew-peen for Pupin at a Fireside Chat and there was a noticeable cringe in the crowd.
@brinkley also says pyoo-peen
@Googler skermerhorn:
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/SCHERMERHORN/2000-02/0949690181
@well Schermerhorn comes from dutch ancestry, where “Sch” is “Sk”. For anyone from upstate NY, think “Schenectady”.
Fun Fact: Prof. Alan Blaer pronounces it “Pyoo-peen”.
@pupin i had a professor call it poo-pin. and for some reason, i was the only person that laughed.
@whoa Professor Keyes just today pronounced it poo-PEEN as well.
So if we pronounce it Skermerhorn, should we also pronounce it Skapiro?
@hey! i totally know Schenectady. Sweet, that helps :)
@Sometimes I purposely avoid referring to Schermerhorn by name so that I won’t have to risk mis-pronouncing it.
@I said it before and I’ll say it again… Bwog should conduct a poll to see how most people pronounce “Schermerhorn”. Results of the poll will then be the new official pronunciation.
@... you’re implying that because the majority of people do something it is somehow correct. *shudder* where’s your elitism, man?
@ED admit Waiting sucks, any ideas of what to do in the mean time?
@ED victim trust me, waiting is the best the part.
@I Disagree And Tom Petty agrees with me.
@Tom Perry IS DEAD
@duh bwog we just want pics of hot boys.
@it's supposed to be skermerhorn. but that sounds pompous and retarded, like ordering “brusketta” (the proper pronunciation).
so let’s just be normal and say shermerhorn and brushetta
@naw skermerhorn.
wait, maybe shermerhorn.
@or, everyone wins... shermerskermerhorn.
@cunning linguist shmermerhorn
@wait I thought they were already nicknamed the Unlucky 13’s?
@what? haha i’m so confused now. i need definite answers, here!
@i vote schmermerhorn.
@I've heard different Are you sure it’s not pronounced like “school?” I should probably know this by now…
Ah ha! http://www.wikicu.com/Schermerhorn
To be fair, though, anyone who’s lived in the LLC’s Vall-ah-shh Hall knows how adaptable pronunciation is.
@-tsk- Like Schapiro.
@Speaking of Schermerhorn, how DO you pronounce it? Like “school” or like “Schapiro”?
@shhh Schermerhorn: Schapiro.
@It always has been, and always will be, pronounced like “Skermerhorn”.
@holy shit SEAS is getting really competitive
@So... How long before we here from Stephan’s successor?