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My favorite, from an MIT administrator: "Other imperatives might be the need for, say, a good bassoon player for MIT's prized symphony orchestra, or people mor
by Flemlord 18y ago
My favorite, from an MIT administrator:
"Other imperatives might be the need for, say, a good bassoon player for MIT's prized symphony orchestra, or people more likely to be interested in, say, energy studies, as opposed to yet more computer science majors."
So you founded your own startup at age 15 and sold it to Google? Impressive, but we're more interested in your bassoon skills.
- albertni 18y agoThere's a difference between "yet more" and "the most impressive".... As far as I know, MIT has always been good about admitting people who have done things that, by definition, not a lot of people can do (such as place highly in a competition). But, would a bassoonist or energy-studies focused person be better for the institution than compsci major #201? Probably.
- tokenadult 18y agoMIT perceives an ongoing need for basic biological science researchers and would definitely take biology major #30 over computer science major #200. What it's really happy about is the would-be biology researcher who wants to be in an interdisciplinary environment and is willing to learn math and computer science, the better to understand biology.