Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Administrators

Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by tester756 on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:49PM (#33836690)

>what you cannot game are transcripts of life long learners who value their education.

What does it even mean?

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by throwaway23236 on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:01PM (#33836852)

I mean that seeing someone's grades over the course of several years is more useful then test scores.

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by tester756 on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:18PM (#33837062)

Test score is almost 100% under someone's control meanwhile grades are subject to bias, heavily.

Grades only hint that you gave a fuck about school.

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by sokoloff on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:41PM (#33837953)

Isn’t “gave a fuck about school” relevant to scoring a college applicant?

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by mindslight on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:00AM (#33841085)

It's more like "gave a fuck about high school", so not really. The people that won that game weren't the smartest but rather the best at conforming to expectations. Although perhaps this has changed now that the dreaded Permanent Record has become our reality.

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by tester756 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:07AM (#33841993)

If somebody manages to don't give a fuck (maybe s/he's doing something cool on the side), and yet still manages to top on the exams, then why would it be relevant?

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