MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by akhilcacharya on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:32PM (#22540570)

This is interesting data I hadn't seen, thanks. Intuitively its a little bewildering to see the Median family income of someone from MIT be around the same as someone from UNC (a school I got into) - I wonder how the median incomes of international admits factor in.

The bottom 20% of US incomes is between $0 to $25k a year for a household - call me a skeptic but I think its unlikely ~58 (938 x 6.2%) people came from backgrounds like that in America,

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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by majos on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:52PM (#22541361)

Confused, you think it’s just too improbable to believe that MIT admitted 60 kids whose parents make <25k yearly? MIT can cherry pick the highest achieving kids in pretty much any national, heck even global, cohort. It seems reasonable to me that there are (way more than) 60 such kids.

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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by akhilcacharya on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:48PM (#22542797)

Makes sense globally. Nationally, not as much

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