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>> I hypothesize that the student who took 8 times longer isn't going to do so well at MIT. You are assuming the effects of wealth stop at the SAT.
by TuringNYC 5y ago
>> I hypothesize that the student who took 8 times longer isn't going to do so well at MIT.
You are assuming the effects of wealth stop at the SAT.
- WalterBright 5y agoAre you suggesting that wealthy people can bribe the profs to bestow better grades on their students? Or the grad students who do the test grading? BTW, Caltech's testing was done on the honor system. That meant no proctoring, and it was entirely up to the student to adhere to the time limits, and any other instructions on the test. You didn't need wealth to cheat. Any student could, and with half a brain not get caught. I recall one physics midterm which 2/3 of the sophomore class failed, including me. I suppose that precludes there being large scale cheating going on.
- TuringNYC 5y ago>> Are you suggesting that wealthy people can bribe the profs to bestow better grades on their students? >> Or the grad students who do the test grading? Not bribe. Hire as tutors with $. This happened pretty regularly at my college (Cornell) where ex-grad TAs were hired as tutors. You could focus on just what you needed to study if you could afford to hire them. Here in the US we just went thru four years with President Trump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump) who could not even communicate with clarity and rattled barely coherent ideas. He graduated from Wharton, the most prestigious finance program in the US. He is just one case I thought of. Does everyone really think he was the most qualified candidate to be in the very small inbound class at Wharton? Does everyone thing he was actually qualified to graduate based on merit?