Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
by jaredklewis on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:42AM
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HN is skeptical towards the substance of college. I think most would recognize that going to Harvard or Stanford opens a lot of doors, regardless of what you learn or don't.
Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:25PM
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> What's crazy about this whole controversy is that HN is usually skeptical towards college anyway.
I've always thought of them as a loud minority and, to be fair, they're not wrong: a lot of web jobs, even well paid ones, really don't require that much education or even much in the way of cognitive acuity.
The people who actually need to use their college education, the FAANG folks and people in other cutting edge tech jobs, don't bother to be vocal about it.
What's crazy about this whole controversy is that HN is usually skeptical towards college anyway. Even beyond the pro-Peter Thiel arguments back in the day about how college is a waste of time, nowadays there are plenty of allegations on HN about how higher ed is a bubble. About how CS, or at least programming, can be self-taught. So I don't understand why so many people here are giving College Board and the college industry any credence here.