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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by HDThoreaun on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:24PM (#36870498)
Everyone comparing SATs and GPAs has completely missed the point. Princeton would rather accept for example someone who became a nationally known political figure before graduating high school than someone with a 4.0 1600. The "what sets you apart" part of the application is much more important than your grades.
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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by strikelaserclaw on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:43PM (#36870736)
These ivies bank on 1% of their class doing something great and they optimize like 50% of their class to find the 1%, the rest of the 50% is just to preserve old power structures (children of rich people, politicians etc..).
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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by KMag on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:45PM (#36870758)
> much more important than your grades.

.. once your grades and test scores are above the level that makes them reasonably confident you can handle the coursework.

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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by HDThoreaun on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:28PM (#36871146)
Coursework at ivy's is a joke. 90% of my (gifted with affirmative action and thousands of students) highschool could've gotten a 3.0 at princeton
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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by gregw2 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:04AM (#36875669)
If you did engineering or math or sciences at Princeton, I doubt you would say that.
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