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I’m sorry, but this just does not compute.</p>
<p>You say Exeter is a “real intellectual haven”. But then you say high school AP BC math is “calculator based computation”. </p>
<p>Yet most kids with a 5 on the BC AP exam go into 153 or place into the 160 series. Some even place out of all math. Yet you, product of “intellectual heaven”, place about as low as one can go.</p>
<p>So, if Exeter were really so great intellectually, why didn’t it prepare you better for the rigors of higher math? Or was the school so focused on teaching to the test (calculator based computation) that it lost sight of any higher intellectual goals?</p>
<p>Maybe the real problem here is that Exeter never taught you what real intellectual life is about? Exeter obviously never taught you that real learning is something YOU do, not get fed by someone else, otherwise you never would hae made your amazing statement in post 25 about the University’s ability to challenge you.</p>
<p>I hope you don’t let too many of these attitudes leach outside these boards. If you do, I fear you may be due for some sad disappointments when grad school recs. are written. Faculty don’t too often like students who expect the faculty to do all the work. Rather, they prefer students who move ahead on their own and come back to challenge the faculty member. Those are the stars.</p>