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SJ didn't go to a big university but do I fear for MIT/Stanford type schools. To get in now you need to be a robot who can ace standardized tests, who spends t
by rb808 9y ago
SJ didn't go to a big university but do I fear for MIT/Stanford type schools.
To get in now you need to be a robot who can ace standardized tests, who spends their whole childhood doing math problems and has no real contact with the real world aside from two pieces of flair suggested by a guidance counseller in order to get into an ivy.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoNeither MIT nor Stanford are Ivies.
- Bartweiss 9y agoI think the idea was that MIT and Stanford don't even care about the "two pieces of flair" (i.e. extracurriculars), but most successful applicants to those schools will have them so they can also apply to Harvard etc., which effectively require them. The result is that even the non-academic stuff those students have done has an academic target.