Re:Throw Out the College Application System
by paulhauggis on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:54PM
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It's called a vocational/trade school.
Well, I assume we've all met people (particularly since this is a board nominally for entrepreneurship involving software) that did very well in school or in other activities where there is a very well-laid out set of steps to follow and flounder when responsible for picking what to work on. If cmu wants to have high-impact graduates, they may feel they have enough people who dot every i and cross every t and get perfect grades, and would like more of the people likely to be impactful in life.
Re:Throw Out the College Application System
by oscargrouch on Sunday October 05, 2014 @05:35PM
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Because the current systems cant detect our Einstein, Mozarts, Da vinci's or even Jobs correctly;
Creativity is the "next thing" on XXI century, and creative types have hard times following rules, or working well in army-like societies; those people are our underdogs now; the system doesnt know what to do with them; and does not like them (until they create "star wars" or a flying car); so i would say its a joke and pretty much broken
Why?