Posted on 05/09/2006 11:11:58 AM PDT by pissant
Recent study including 10 colleges ranks Albion’s women the cutest.
Albion College is more than a pretty campus with a sweet reputation—we also have the "cutest" women.
A study performed last May by two male University of Chicago students, Aaron Puri and Jason Scima, crowned Albion as the college with the cutest women.
The study included Albion College, Michigan State University, the University of Oregon, Princeton University, the University of Puget Sound, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Los Angeles and Vanderbilt University.
During their first year at the University of Chicago, Puri and Scima were made aware of a stigma that the Chicago student body has a "Quasimodo" reputation. To investigate the widespread claim that Chicago female students are less attractive than most schools’ women, the men chose 10 colleges from across the country—ranging from small liberal arts colleges to Big Ten universities—for their experiment.
Puri and Scima used Facebook, the online college directory, to select 35 pictures of female students from each of the 10 schools’ graduating class of 2008. The women’s photos were then posted on HotOrNot.com for the Internet public to judge their attractiveness on a scale of 1 (Not) to 10 (Hot). After each photograph was rated at least 300 times, the photos were taken off the site and calculations were made. According to HotOrNot.com, "scores do not tend to change much after as few as 30 to 50 votes."
Albion College women were crowned the number one beauty queens, scoring an average HotOrNot rating of 7.60. The following schools in ranking order were Michigan State University (7.55), the University of Oregon (7.52), Vanderbilt University (7.49), the University of Michigan (7.11), Princeton University (7.06), the University of California Los Angeles (6.78), Stanford University (6.75), the University of Puget Sound (6.35) and, lastly, the University of Chicago (6.07).
Not all of Albion’s male students agreed with the study’s findings.
"I’ve been to State and I would say that they should be number one," said Michael Porter, Jackson senior. "(MSU) has a lot of cute girls, so I would put Albion second."
Andy Goldbaum, Ann Arbor junior, agreed with Porter.
"There are cute girls at every school, but I’ve seen heaps of cute ones at MSU compared to Albion," Goldbaum said. "But then again, I don’t get out much."
Nick Pelton, MSU senior, stated the obvious.
"Albion may have a (slightly) higher percentage, but MSU has like 90,387,428,934 more cute girls, statistically speaking," Pelton said.
Denise Switzer, Indian River junior, said it makes sense Albion College women are rated the cutest.
"It’s not like the test is saying that we only have three hot girls," Switzer said. "It’s saying that we have a lot of cute girls."
Just like Albion’s men were quick to second-guess the cuteness of Albion’s women, the women sometimes feel they need vision correction when checking out Albion men.
"(Albion men) were hit in the face with an ugly stick to a horrible extent," said a student, who requested anonymity. "Honestly, on a scale of one to 10, I’d rate them a three."
However, a recent study performed by The Pleiad has discovered that HotOrNot.com visitors give Albion men a higher score.
Thirty-five Albion men (first-years through seniors) were chosen randomly by The Pleiad from Facebook to be rated. The pictures were posted on HotOrNot.com and after at least 40 votes the scores were recorded and the pictures were taken off the site. Albion men scored an average rating of 6.67—making Albion women the cuter gender on campus.
Switzer agreed with the study’s findings.
"(Albion men) are not outrageously attractive—they’re just normal," said Switzer, whose boyfriend attends a neighboring college. "Our campus is a good balance of attractiveness, because it mirrors the real world. We’re not all outrageously attractive or unattractive."
Despite Puri and Scima’s findings, they have not transferred to a college with "cuter" women. For those interested, Puri received a HotOrNot rating of 7.9 and Scima scored an 8.1 based on their Facebook photos. Visit www.collegecutness.com for more information about Puri and Scima’s research.
What does Albion’s No. 1 ranking mean?
- Albion’s high median of 8.0 means half of the women in their sample scored an 8.0 or above. This shows that there are a lot of good-looking women at Albion, instead of just a few great-looking women.
- Albion finishing first also disproves any claim that smaller liberal arts school students are not as attractive as those of large state schools.
- It is interesting that Puget Sound, which is the most comparable to Albion in terms of size and competitiveness, scored so much lower in the study. This makes it unlikely that either of these factors are related to attractiveness.
I humbly submit the Oklahoma State Cowgirls as the hottest co-eds on planet earth. The majority of students come from Oklahoma and Texas who both produce some of the best looking females in general.
You had a typo in that post....I believe it is
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEER HOLDER
by: Hank Williams Jr.
I've got some fond memories of San Angelo,
and I've seen some beauty queens in El Paso,
but the best lookin women that I've ever seen,
have all been in Texas and all wearin jeans
Chorus:
I'm a country plowboy, not an urban cowboy,
and I dont ride bulls but I have fought some men,
drive a pickup truck,
trust in God and luck and I live to love Texas women.
I thought I'd seen beauty in faraway places,
till I looked upon those Houston faces,
spent Hollywood nights up in Beverly Hills,
but they werent nothin like one night down in Brownsville
Repeat Chorus
I'm a pretty fair judge of the opposite sex,
and I aint seen nothin that will touch em' yet,
they may be from Waco or out in Lampassas,
but one thing about it they all come from Texas.
Repeat Chorus
I'm an Oiler fan not a soccer man,
and my arms are red and so is my blood,
and they make it boil with that soft Texas drawl and I love em all,
Texas women.
Post 42 confirms my abundance of hair.
LOL. Stay out of trouble there!
Yeah, you! If last years memory cells are still workin'.
Aren't ale Oklahoma women 90 lbs overweight?
Nonsense, my teeth are not nearly that white.
I like that. Almost as good as All my Exes are in Texas.
That's the bald guy from Lost?
I don't watch that show....I thought it was a senile Popeye.
Ugh! Female body builders just dont do it for me..
Hottest? Doggone it, I was trying to be real cool.
Nor I. Regardless of what may be between the left one and the right one, the rest of her's is bigger than mine.
LOL! Looks exactly like the condition I must be in before I even enter the room where I keep my guitar.
LOL! My bad. Beerholder is exactly what I typed, but you know these cheap keyboards just can't be trusted.
Zat wuz ewe?
A bunch of them are 90 pounds or so overweight, peeant, but, Lordy Lordy, I've never seen women anywhere that had every sexy little ounce so perfectly placed.
God bless them Sooner gals!
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