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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by catlover76 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:04PM (#37460562)
I think it's a valid suggestion, but where are you getting this from:

> MCAT filters the med school application pool down from 80k to 23k. LSAT filters from 120k down to 40k. Without them, there would be millions of applicants every year.

How could one reliably estimate the number of people deterred from pursuing medical or law school due to the respective standardized tests?

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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by naveen99 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:10PM (#37460619)
There are a 140k premed first year college students. That number itself would be larger without the MCAT hanging at the end of the road, if med schools relied on haphazard interviews alone without the MCAT.

There are 5 million college students per year, a lot more of them would take a shot at law school and med school, if it wasn’t for MCAT and LSAT.

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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by catlover76 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:13PM (#37460641)
What evidence do you have for anything you are saying?
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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by naveen99 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:16PM (#37460673)
You can confirm these numbers, they are public, and gathered annually by various administrative bodies involved in the standardized tests and credentialling of the professional schools.
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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by catlover76 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:46PM (#37460877)
I don't doubt that there are 140k premed undergrads or x million college students.

I doubt that there is any reliable estimate of how many people would apply for med school or law school BUT FOR their having to take a standardized test.

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Re:How to pass the interview for software engineering roles ... by naveen99 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @07:10PM (#37461022)
All I am saying is there should be some scalable if crude method of quickly ranking new software engineers by aptitude as a pre filter for interviews as there is for doctors and lawyers. it’s just an opinion.
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