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I'm impressed you got a college to accept your application without some kind of high school equivalency certification. How'd you manage that? A few years out o
by stellar678 17y ago
I'm impressed you got a college to accept your application without some kind of high school equivalency certification. How'd you manage that?
A few years out of school, however, and it's become very clear to me that "I just worked on this project for 6 months where we learned XYZ, had some hard times and eventually failed/succeeded/moved on." is much more attractive to the kind of people I want to work with than "I graduated cum laude from XYZ special university."
- rdl 17y agoI was 16. MIT doesn't really care about high school diplomas. I'd already done 1580/1600 SAT and had a grad student and associate prof at MIT write letters of recommendation based on performance in a summer program (social engineering...)