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05-04-2008, 04:35 AM
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#31 | | Junior Member
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| "I know that, but will the teachers push you past your limits, will they stay relatively organized so as to not waste your time"
Can you please rephrase this in a better/detailed way? Thanks! | 
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05-04-2008, 07:20 AM
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#32 | | Junior Member
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| By the way:
"am i to understand that Harvard's education isn't that great..."
I don't know about this and I (like any other student) want to know in details about this.
"...it would be wiser to go to MIT for a great education plus all the other factors i.e diversity, research etc."
I don't know about that too and I also want to find out about the quality of undergraduate education there [MIT]. Anyone? | |
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05-04-2008, 07:23 AM
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#33 | | Junior Member
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| "If you want to play a sport here, you can do it as a D1 NCAA athlete."
Don't you think that this is a little misleading? If I am not mistaken, only recruited athletes can do that. Please correct me if it is not as such. | |
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05-04-2008, 07:27 AM
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| "There's another who at 16 solved a graph theory conjecture that mathematicians had never before been able to prove."
Source, please! And, which conjecture did you mean? Please state. | |
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05-04-2008, 08:31 AM
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| Is the statement here in reference to Michael Viscardi? http://presskit.ditd.org/2006_Davids...l_Viscardi.pdf
He is a rare example of a Harvard undergraduate student who skipped Math 55 and went immediately to taking graduate-level (in Harvard's terms) courses in math upon entering Harvard College, when he was still under the age of eighteen. | |
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05-04-2008, 10:25 AM
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#36 | | Senior Member
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| Wow, five posts in a row. Can't you combine your thoughts into one or two? | |
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05-04-2008, 11:53 AM
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| LOL! Will be doing so... | |
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05-04-2008, 03:24 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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| >>If I am not mistaken, only recruited athletes can do that. Please correct me if it is not as such.<<
Not true. Many sports at Harvard and and many other Division 1 schools too have a significant number of walk-on athletes competing for the school. | |
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05-04-2008, 03:36 PM
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#39 | | Member
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| I have a term paper due that I'm working on, so I'll get to the other points later and in more detail, but:
no it's not misleading to say that about athletes. We have 41 varsity sports. If you do the math it would be ridiculous to have that many recruits at the school (and against regulations). Unless your talking about football or basketball, walking on and getting significant PT is very possible.
no I'm not saying Harvard's undergrad education isn't as good as MITs. I'm just saying that the volume of work you do here is less. As I'm sure your aware, there's a very large difference between volume of work and true education.
The rest will be addressed later | |
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05-04-2008, 04:36 PM
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| I wouldn't be so sure...lol | |
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05-04-2008, 06:05 PM
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#41 | | Junior Member
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| "I wouldn't be so sure...lol"
@piccolojunior: LOL! You are so funny! Of course I know that... But less work does not mean true education either. It depends on the situation. So, yeah! You are right, h bomber... | |
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05-04-2008, 08:08 PM
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| i hate to rain on the parade here, but of the harvard acceptees i have talked to this year, i have been less than impressed. about 4 of the 9 kids admitted to me that they lied on their applications because they thought it was the only way they could get in. the other 5 were top achievers, one winning the state award of top volunteer of the year. i was expecting these students to be the smartest in their high schools and have lots of colleges welcoming them for the class of 2012. only 3 of kids had been accepted to other top schools (caltech, stanford, chicago specifically), but some said that the next best school they had been accepted to was ranked in the 20-30 range on USNews (tufts, boston college, vanderbilt, brandeis, and usc specifically). i still admire harvard for getting a very broad range of students for a well rounded class, however i feel that either harvard does not try to get the smartest students, or the admissions office is getting tricked. | |
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05-04-2008, 08:12 PM
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| How drastic were the lies? | |
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05-04-2008, 08:22 PM
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| The Visionary, is English your non-first language? | |
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05-04-2008, 08:25 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
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| Why? Actually, it is not... | |
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