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Bischoff was at MIT? Yeah, but Caltech has a better rep than MIT on the issue, according to Dan Golden. I interviewed him for the Tech (Caltech's student newsp
by HistoryInAction 16y ago
Bischoff was at MIT?
Yeah, but Caltech has a better rep than MIT on the issue, according to Dan Golden. I interviewed him for the Tech (Caltech's student newspaper) when the book came out, and he said that he had intended to write his "this school bluntly refuses to countenance legacy admissions" section about MIT, but everything he heard forced him to change his plans to talk about Caltech instead.
More generally, that far right on the bell curve, the differences are so marginal. Instead, the main process is surpass a certain bar of accomplishment and then stand out in some unique way that gets you noticed. There are 10 perfect SAT scores/ultra-high GPAs for every spot in an ultra-elite engineering school like the ones you list. Small variations in awesome are just extremely hard to rank.
- xxpor 16y agoBischoff is now at Case Western in Cleveland (where I attend). I actually just talked with him last night. What were your impressions of him generally?
- HistoryInAction 16y agoLoved him. Total math dork, and he really enjoys just hacking through the numbers to win the system best as possible. Also, my hs fencing teacher went there, awesome place, case western, aside from that new building when the roof gets all iced up.
- xxpor 16y agoPeter B Lewis? Yea, Frank Gehry is good at designing buildings that are interesting to look at, but not the most functional.
- HistoryInAction 16y agoYeah, "death from above" through collapsing sheets of ice are things worth avoiding, generally :)