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I have a sneaking suspicion that these sorts of fine-grained admission processes only apply to "SLACS" and other small competetive & probably private schools. I
by pnathan 13y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that these sorts of fine-grained admission processes only apply to "SLACS" and other small competetive & probably private schools. I have never heard of anything like this from a State (public) university.
- gwern 13y agoYou can expect this sort of thing to be automated at some point, and then it could be used well outside of the most competitive schools.
- _delirium 13y agoI wouldn't be hugely shocked if some kind of Social-Media-Snooping-As-A-Service thing already existed for corporate HR to use to screen applicants.
- gwern 13y agoIIRC, there was one using Github already, specializing in rating programmers. I wouldn't be surprised in the least either if there were ones drawing on Twitter and Facebook.
- pnathan 13y agoMy impression of state schools (having done college at and around state schools) is that they aren't looking for reasons to reject people. They like having people in their system.