As a current Q student I read this and have a very hard time not writing a post directed squarely at Got 6 after everything you have said about Quinnipiac.
I chose to fly across the entire country from California to attend school here. I know with every job interview I go to outside the northeast I will be asked the same question I was asked my senior year in high school, "Quinna-what?" Quinnipiac is obviously the youngest school in the conference. For people that don't know Quinnipiac was actually a 2 year school for awhile as well. I have no shame in that. It doesn't lessen the degree I will receive in a couple months.
I dont often compare Quinnipiac academically to any school in the ECAC for a multitude of reasons. Quinnipiac's strongest programs don't really relate in any way, shape or form to any other schools. Some of the brightest health science students in the country actually attend Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac turns down students with 2100's on their SAT's applying to health sciences. Quinnipiac is elite when it comes to health sciences. If anyone argues that, they have zero idea what they are talking about.
The other aspects of the school are not on the same stage academically. The business school is ranked 66th in the country. It is not entirely hard to get into, hell I got into it. The School of Communications does a fantastic job but is not all that selective when it comes to admissions either, but it is listed above Ivy League school's in this LinkedIn ranking for media professionals (take that with a grain of salt) :
https://www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/us/undergraduate-media?trk=edu-rankings-ctg-card . The engineering school is two years old.
Quinnipiac clearly has used it's athletics as a way to promote the school. Any idea why they started doing that 7 years ago and not 15, 20, or 30? Because the academic side has been brought up to a standard the administration feels is strong enough to actively promote and something that they can actually be proud of. So forgive my school for committing money to get its name out but the culture has changed and nowadays smart, driven students don't just show up to a relatively new school by accident.
What I'm getting at is Quinnipiac is a young school. Most of the schools in this country we hold in the highest regard, are the oldest. They have established themselves over a span of 100, 200, and 250+ years. No one is saying Q is just a step below the Ivies. We certainly like to be associated with the Ivies and I know all the other non Ivies would probably own up to that too, but the fact is we are no where near the Ivies as a complete instiution.
I'm not asking people on here to change your perception of Quinnipiac. But I would argue that there is no school in college hockey that has grown academically more in the past 10 years than Quinnipiac. Make no mistake, we are not the school that was accepted into the ECAC 9 years ago. Historically, we just don't stack up to the rest of the conference and we certainly don't fit the mold of the other 11 schools. But does that mean we don't fit? At the end of the day it was the ADs and Presidents of your schools that picked us (Yes HC would of been tapped if not for women's hockey).
, but I do think U was a little banged up from Friday night in Potsdam and hopefully can make a better showing at the rematch in Schenectady. Good luck going foward, would be nice to see you guys make the dance.
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