<p>I’ve only plotted out the surface for the viable range of 1 through 5, the premise then concludes that under no condition will there be a positive derivative with respect to the stats variable. </p>
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<p>The rate of reciprocal increase with respect to the decrease of the admission chance is higher than those affected by faith. Let’s scale this out to include a larger set of discrete data points. The model suggests that a person with 100% faith (relative) and with 0% stats (relative, and we assume this to be a valid point) will have an admission rate approaching positive infinity. At the same time, the first derivative of the function is always positive for faith and always negative for stats, meaning that applicants who have worked hard and believes that they earn the admission will have a lower chance of being admitted than an applicant (singular) who blows off all of his course-work and still believes that he is an exceptional human being and thus still deserves to be admitted.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but not even for moral support do I find this encouraging.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t mean to attack you personally in any shape or form nor are the examples applied to you. I get over-analytical when I’m extremely nervous and the Cornell EDs come out today. I really didn’t mean to be offensive, sorry ahead of times.</p>