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It's interesting seeing threads like this, people say all the time how admissions are a crapshoot and such. When my dad was a freshman at MIT he nearly flunked out, cause in high school he was the ****: captain of track team, salutatorian, all that bull. When he got to MIT he just started taking it like high school all over again except it was a hell of a lot harder....
He graduated with honors
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I'm afraid that you story is complete bull, for the simple fact of the matter is, as Dirt McGirt pointed out, MIT does not award degrees with honors.
"...does not award athletic scholarships, ad eundem degrees, or Latin honors upon graduation ? the philosophy is that the honor is in being an MIT graduate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massach..._of_Technology
I don't want to be overly harsh, barfdog17, but perhaps you could tell us what really happened with your father?