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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS got 6 into Harvard ED[/quote]
That's pretty par for the course, although GDS has had even bettter years, too.[/quote]
But none of them are going to go there, because GDS students found too many mistakes in the professors syllabi last year, right? :-)[/quote]

This would be comical if it weren't a bit sad. I have no connection with, GDS, but I do have a PhD from a HYPS school and did work as a professor. You are truly clueless if you believe that the road to success in any elite school is by passively ingesting the material presented by faculty. If you have successfully taught your kids to be passive learners, they have already lost the game at the higher levels. Critical engagement is the key. And sure, there are subtle and not so subtle ways of doing it, but those can easily be addressed in most contexts (unless they are overtly politicized).

At research schools professors are used to having their work robustly critiqued at faculty seminars and at conferences. Most would invite questions about potential gaps in the syllabus as a great opportunity to explain further how they have shaped the course.  And if the questions were memorable in a good way, that will be very helpful to the student when it comes to letters of recommendation.[/quote]

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