why do colleges want interesting people? - Page 11

sockpuppet · 02-08-2008, 05:41 PM

What do you consider a typical "college class" taught by your teacher to encompass? The AP classes here aren't lectures, but usually discussions and class activities like labs or projects that supplement books.

Just to clarify, what do you consider studying? When you say 2 hours of studying, do you mean 2 hours of studying the day before the test, or two hours over the material that the test covers throughout the whole time period. For example, if Test A is over Chapter 1 and 2, and I read both chapters to keep up in class (not at the same time), am I studying an hour for the test? Or is studying an hour sitting down 1-2 days before the test and reviewing material?

aisgzdavinci · 02-09-2008, 03:08 AM

"studying" as in studying before a test, not reading sth for pleasure.

itsover9thousand · 03-03-2008, 04:19 PM

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If you want to get the smartest students, ask for their IQ

That's probably not going to do top colleges all that much for them.
My 160+ IQ cousin failed out of UConn because he has no work ethic.

Well, yeah. I didn't say that you could get the hardest working students by asking for IQ, just the smartest ones. There's plenty of really lazy high IQ students out there that go to mediocre colleges for that reason. Smart != hard working.

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even if we do accept that there is an IQ difference among races, i doubt that such a small difference would make any significant difference.

It depends, really. When you're talking about small numbers, like several hundred or several dozen people, you're right in saying that it doesn't make a significant difference. However, when you're talking about tens, if not hundreds of millions of people, a shift in 3 IQ points is huge.