Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)

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@bovertine

There were 35,000 plus applicants to Harvard I believe. Do you really contend that most of them got the maximum score possible on all their standardized tests? I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration.

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<p>Probably most of them got close enough to maximum (3.9+ UW GPA with almost all available honors and AP courses, 700+ on every SAT section) that the usual academic criteria in the US becomes much less useful to distinguish between them.</p>