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Originally Posted by Olo I can imagine it would be less stressful for someone who spent their entire high school career doing nothing but trying to get into college. It's important to realize that most people do not fall into this category (and I do not mean to imply you do), and some of us are drastically oppose to it. |
Well, it's nice for you that you were able to move through your high school years doing apparently whatever you wanted and still get into MIT. Apparently, you don't place that much stock in it.
Does this mean that those of us who have set going to MIT as our goal and do value the college experience there above other pursuits should be punished for trying to do what
should have gotten us admitted, except for the apologist revisions to the admissions process at MIT? It's disgusting that this seems to be the case.
You set up an immense logical fallacy (which the admissions office seems to buy into as well) in assuming that the only two choices for a high school student are doing busywork or ditching school and going into the "real world" and self-studying. Could I have gone to a bookstore and purchased an entire undergraduate physics curriculum to teach myself? Of course. However, perhaps I thought that I would be better off to actually engage in being taught by a competent professional.
I shudder to think of what MIT's graduating class will look like in a decade if they continue on your illustrated path of admitting students who ignore teachers and work and don't care about getting into college.
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Originally Posted by Olo I know a few other people like me here. I admit that we may be "the exceptions to the rule", my my entire point is that if there are exceptions, then clearly the rule isn't that good. |
Also, this is just a ridiculous statement to make.