Is it better to be "Angular" or "Well-Rounded"?

Madeline25
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:10:25 +0000

I think it’s somewhere in between the two. Just because you are a math genius doesn’t mean you can fail history.

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I also feel like you could make an argument that it is not so much about being excellent in one subject as it is showing commitment, involvement, and leadership and having quality of activities over quantity (which usually leads to being ‘angular’, but not necessarily) at least for schools like Harvard. I could very well be wrong though.

For schools like MIT and CalTech, I do agree with you and think you do have to be ‘angular’ in STEM, but without sacrificing your other subjects of course.