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by csa 4y ago
> but worry my kids might miss out on some pot of gold The default assumption should be that if your kids enter an elite school as $SES kids, then they will leave the same (SES = socioeconomic status). So a middle class kid will likely l
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by csa 4y ago
> An admissions officer saw it and they have to stop the school getting too Asian. Where do you believe that this specific situation has actually happened this century? I am fairly certain that this has not happened at any elite school i
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by csa 4y ago
> Would they really? Was Elizabeth Warren punished by Harvard or UPenn for unethical behavior? Good question. Just because they can doesn't mean they will. As I said elsewhere, I think that the most likely filter for race bamboozler
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by csa 4y ago
> Have either of these actually happened? Yes, people have been expelled and had their degrees from elite schools revoked for unethical behavior (usually academic misconduct). Has it happened for misrepresenting their race on their appli
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by csa 4y ago
> couldn't literally anyone else do this? If we start blurring the definition, why does it conveniently stop there? Sure. I don't think anyone is getting dinged or getting special affirmative action consideration for listing th
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by csa 4y ago
> How do they measure your race? Great question. My guess is that they would only take action if you did something like brag on social media about hacking the admissions system by lying. Stranger things have happened...
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by csa 4y ago
> Poor people can't afford touring colleges, so their "why this college" essays can't be as specific. The "why this college" essay can trivially be addressed by looking through the university website. Most a
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by csa 4y ago
> It sounds like you have some experience with the admissions process I do. Not as an admissions officer, but in a variety of advisory capacities to admissions offices over the decades. > if I'd gotten 300-400 points less on the
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by csa 4y ago
(part 2, since first reply was too long) A few additional notes: - Note that many people who attend elite schools almost stumble into checking off all of the boxes above without realizing it. It's amazing how some people just randomly
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by csa 4y ago
> so what does it take to get into the top schools as an Asian? The comments below on how to get into an elite university (like Harvard or Stanford) have a fairly high hit rate when all of the boxes are checked. This is a fairly detailed
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by csa 4y ago
There is something missing from your story, but I can’t exactly figure out what it is. Some things that may have gone wrong: - Maybe your GPA was too low for your high school. If it put you outside of the top 10% or so of your class, then t
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by csa 4y ago
> do they have a color palette they hold up to your face and say “nope, sorry you’re too light to be black, or is there a generic test they force you to perform? It’s more of a sniff test that is only performed at elite schools or for pr
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by csa 4y ago
Bubka is Ukrainian, and I believe he set the records under the Ukrainian flag. Not sure what and how they paid him (if anything), but it wouldn’t have been a Soviet thing.
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by csa 4y ago
> Are schools in India or China or Israel inherently worse than those in America because those schools have “too much” of a single race? Both China and India are countries with a number of different races, some/most of which are rep
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by csa 4y ago
In the US, especially with federal money, this would be ample justification for a congressional inquiry and a potential fraud, waste, and abuse claim. The usual outcome of the investigation is uncovering a bunch of people just saying that t
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by csa 4y ago
> Is realtime sports betting even a thing? Yes. It’s a growth area in sports betting. > And if so is the liquidity and spread good enough to enter/exit say a $10,000 position that quickly? In some sports, sure. Probably not in vo
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by csa 4y ago
> HR departments have a workaround though - instead of a bad reference, they will simply confirm that yes, you worked there. Nothing else. This works in the US as well.
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by csa 4y ago
> they are designed to ensure managers have to document the poor performance I have had very close interactions (details below) with managers who completely fabricated “poor performance” in order to PIP the target out of a job. In both c
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by csa 4y ago
Not op, but…: - Multiple C-suite executives and board members get caught up in a Jeffrey Epstein level underage sex and sex trafficking ordeal. They resist when busted, and it becomes a spectacle. The evidence is just messy enough and the g
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by csa 4y ago
> What are the headaches and how do they solve it? I live in California, where marijuana is legal. The headaches here are that federal police sometimes go bonkers if they find totally minor stuff like edibles or paraphernalia during some
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by csa 4y ago
Does anyone know which companies media methane was partnering with? The following article explains the mechanics: https://www.anura.io/blog/king-of-ad-fraud-sentenced But who were these partners who were paying media m
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by csa 4y ago
> Postle at least had acres and acres of evidence. One bad call on one hand is nothing compared. It’s way more than one hand. 1. She used a time bank chip to tank a turn bet by Garrett when she had J8 (no pair no draw — same J-high situa
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by csa 4y ago
That may be true. I’m just basing it on what I’ve read on Twitter. I have not read a random sample. There are plenty pros (as shown in the linked list) who are not convinced more than 50% that she cheated. Given the circumstances, I doubt t
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by csa 4y ago
> The cheating claims for the poker example are absolutely stupid. Only people who know very little about poker would claim that. A not small number of well-known pros don’t think it’s so simple: https://preview.redd.it/e
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by csa 4y ago
> lol, are we back to the 19th century? Are you suggesting that the opium trade in the golden triangle and China is not a thing? If it makes you feel better, we can call it heroin, which is derived from opium.
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by csa 4y ago
> In that scenario, a public transparency report on involuntary returnee legal cases would be a good start. Why would they do that? I’m pretty sure that the powers that be in China don’t really care about the opinions of advocates of hum
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by csa 4y ago
It would not surprise me if a large part of this is not driven by an attempt to control the drug trade (e.g., opium) that flows through the golden triangle and southwest China. Note that this trade is huge and is a problem in China. I don’t
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by csa 4y ago
> I like that Shun Ikejima uses familiar instead of polite Japanese Familiar form is standard in this type of situation. Using polite would be a stylistic choice.
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by csa 4y ago
> Has building a webpage never been easier or never been harder for a newcomer? Interestingly, both. It’s very easy to make a basic website that more or less works. It’s very hard to make a website that does anything well. Mistakes that
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by csa 4y ago
There are many comments about how little he makes from this channel, but it seems like he’s not really focusing on maximizing his revenue. Specifically: - he does not do sponsored videos (too much work he doesn’t want to do) - he has not mo

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