David Hogg just got into Harvard
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Anonymous
Absolutely correct. |
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Developed my intellect as a math major Cal Tech after turning down Harvard. How about you? |
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So, what did you do with the math major? Genuinely interested.
NP |
Anonymous
You think that’s the only thing he’s done? |
Anonymous
Have a 73 person company providing cryptographic support to public and private companies. |
Anonymous
Unimpressive to me. Math is easy until you are a PhD candidate. |
Anonymous
What? I know why Harvard took him. He's a great PR piece for the university. Again, I'm simply asking about timing. California schools didn't accept him at the time of the interview. After the interview - months later, I guess - he updates his fans about his acceptance into Harvard. It's all in the timing. |
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Here's a tip: Just because 95% of the general public can't do something does not make the remaining 5% superior. Undergraduate mathematicians are intellectually one trick ponies. I say this as a physics major who did most of the same math courses, because they were interesting to me. Yes, I took Topoology for Dummies just like you probably did.
They (and we) are really good at one or two things. But the undergraduate in math or physics is an infant in their field. What we can do upon graduation is useful because quantitative and analyitical skills are economically useful. But let's not get too full of ourselves. Unless we have something bigger to bring to the table, we are cogs in the machine just like the rest of the workforce. |
Anonymous
It's way harder to master high level math and engineering, which takes years of persistent study and high IQ. Sending BS tweets and organizing meaningless marches are much easier. Every single HS student can do that. 1270 doesn't even get you into GMU engineering here. That's why no one takes Harvard seriously in academic circles. High intellects go to MIT, Cal tech, and Princeton. |
Anonymous
Read the whole thing. The bottom 25% of the upper 90% is a little shy of 1460. The bottom 10% of applicants measured --SOLELY-- by SAT are often so overwhelming in other respects that Harvard chooses to not count them in released averages. |
Anonymous
The number of mathematicians and physicists who amount to nothing is truly astounding given their supposed intellect. Hogg has already affected the nation. |
Anonymous
You mean you started a small business with the BS degree, of which you are the CEO? (I'm not trying to challenge you -- I just don't understand the wording. I can't tell if you are in charge, or if it is thriving, or still ongoing, or what. I assume all is well.) If so, good for you! Sounds like a needed and valued service. I think SAT scores are a useful part of the picture, but they are only one part. Grit and drive will carry you far, so long as you can do the work. I think Hogg will do well in his chosen major (Poli Sci), even if he probably would not have done well in yours. And sounds like you decided to leave secondary ed without a master's or PhD, because that was presumably not what you needed for what you wanted to do. We'll see what Hogg does. Regardless, it's Harvard's discretion -- as a private institution -- to decide if he is likely to do well with what he has to bring to what they have to offer. |
Anonymous
For STEM, sure. "Academic circles" include more than STEM, but if you want to exclude everything else as non-academic, then I don't think you are talking about Academia in the general sense. |
Anonymous
You sound like a lovely human being. |
Anonymous
So you’re no different from that guy who has a chain of dry cleaners. |