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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by infra178 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @05:06PM (#8413458)
> For example, imagine that a college wants to focus less on book smarts and more on wisdom and practical intelligence.

Why?

Re:Throw Out the College Application System by paulhauggis on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:54PM (#8413931)
It's called a vocational/trade school.
Re:Throw Out the College Application System by x0x0 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @07:34PM (#8413772)
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 (#8413532)
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