Re "Power in the Polls: Colleges Bolster Images" [Jan . 23] College polling on Long Island lives!
In some polls, the college dropout is their leading candidate for the presidential nomination.
In 2000, the BCS Poll was a combination of four different systems: media and coaches' polls (Associated Press college football poll and USA Today Coaches' Poll), team records, a collection of eight different computer ranking systems, and a strength-of-schedule component based on opponent records.
Two polls by colleges suggested that Mr. Pataki was headed for a resounding win.
I promise you, most fans want one — as the poll of college football fans that Mr. Curtis cites found.
UCLA has been polling freshman college students for over 40 years on their political beliefs, and has found that young people are hardly automatic Democrats.
In the late 1990s, Sports Illustrated polled 115 college coaches and asked them the question: "If you could go to one coaching clinic, whose would it be?" Dick Bennett tied for third with Bob Knight, behind Mike Krzyzewski and Rick Majerus.
Abigail Thernstrom, the co-author of "America in Black and White Simonon & Schuster, 1997) points out that some polls show college-educated black people are more likely to believe mad conspiracy theories than less well-educated blacks.The saddest thing about Mr Sharpton is that his talents and his mouth are misdirected.
Kerry Ann Rockquemore, a sociologist at Pepperdine University, polled 250 college students who had one black parent and one white, and found that those reared in middle-class or affluent white neighborhoods tended to identify as biracial, while those who had grown up in black communities generally considered themselves black.
So Forbes polled four college admissions consultants and compiled their words of wisdom.
