L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal

Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by akhilcacharya on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:12PM (#19804285)

Well, my state school (rank #50+) is quite a bit different from yours in terms of quality (rank #25 or less) for starters. I didn't get anywhere close to an 800 on my Math SAT, whereas I'm sure a lot of people at UMD CS did (and a few at my school did too!).

>I think to some degree that you're using the school you did go to as a facile excuse to explain why you "haven't done cool stuff", when it's quite possible that that's not the reason at all, and that even if you had gone to that school you still wouldn't be "doing cool stuff".

Right, it's more of a correlation for inherent inferiority in my case more than anything else, but that's besides the point.

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by CydeWeys on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:57PM (#19811325)

Ultimate accomplishment is driven more by hard work than by innate talent. I coasted on my talent in school through most of school and came into the working world unprepared to seriously go do cool stuff for quite awhile. It wasn't until much more recently that I buckled down and got better at applying myself that I really started to see an upward trajectory. And none of this has anything to do with what school you went to for undergrad awhile ago.

I did get a 1580 though, so I feel called out :/

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by akhilcacharya on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:51PM (#19814805)

Nice, I got a 1500/1600 so I'm naturally a bit behind intellectually.

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by CydeWeys on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:54AM (#19818965)

Nah, these tests aren't real measures of intellectual capability, and that isn't a huge difference anyway.

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