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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by barry-cotter on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:36PM (#22642846)
The overwhelming majority of the high IQ are not Mensa members. They are academics, doctors, lawyers, successful businesspeople, the kinds of people for whom it is more common in their friends group to have a Master’s degree than to be a high school dropout.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by perl4ever on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:40PM (#22643221)
Some people consider a person with a Master's degree to be a dropout. (yes, I know, not necessarily...)
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by barry-cotter on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:17PM (#22643412)
Those people are called academics. The kinds of Master’s degrees that are rent seeking credentialism, MBAs, MSWs, M.Ed.s are far more common than consolation prizes for those who didn’t get their Ph.D.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by perl4ever on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:55AM (#22647377)
Perhaps, but the context I heard it in was self-deprecating from someone working in industry, relative to engineers with PhDs.
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