College Confidential - View Single Post - MIT Admissions Have Become A Complete Joke

simfish · 04-14-2007, 09:57 PM

Correction above:

Admissions, though, can't do much. You just can't tell which students are more likely than others to burn out (even those who have the potential to burn out may have personality characteristics aside that which may benefit their scientific endeavors). Why? Because few of the students have actually been tested in a Caltech-like environment. Until they have been tested in such an environment, it's impossible to tell the difference.

- Added parenthesis to disambiguate the sentence "why" pointed at.

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"only that they discover that people around them are playing games, or they discover a new game, or they discover BitTorrent in conjunction with Caltech's uber Internet connection speeds, and then boom, predictions based on limited information are shattered."
small correction #2

04-14-2007, 09:57 PM	#200
simfish Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redmond,WA. Now InquilineKea Posts: 1,039	Correction above: Admissions, though, can't do much. You just can't tell which students are more likely than others to burn out (even those who have the potential to burn out may have personality characteristics aside that which may benefit their scientific endeavors). Why? Because few of the students have actually been tested in a Caltech-like environment. Until they have been tested in such an environment, it's impossible to tell the difference. - Added parenthesis to disambiguate the sentence "why" pointed at. === "only that they discover that people around them are playing games, or they discover a new game, or they discover BitTorrent in conjunction with Caltech's uber Internet connection speeds, and then boom, predictions based on limited information are shattered." small correction #2 Last edited by simfish; 04-14-2007 at 10:12 PM.
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