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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's a mistake for these schools to take kids who need to spend all their time studying to get high enough scores on the test.  These schools should be filled with kids who can do well without spending all their out of school time studying, so they can be participating in and learning from non-academic activities such as arts, music, and sports. High school is a time to explore; kids are narrowing their opportunities if they only have time for schoolwork.
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I disagree.  Well-rounded individuals who get secondarily high academic scores deserve to go to college, but do not deserve to displace the highest achievers.  Those who have the drive and will to succeed at any cost, including spending all of their time studying are the types that make scientific breakthroughs, create inventions, and drive intellectual progress forward.  I work in a science and engineering based industry and it's the hard workers that are the most needed, not the bright kids who want to do a lot of everything, do everything well, but not truly excel at anything.  Great support staff, but not the true bright stars.  The best institutions need to have both the brightest and the hardest working.

It's this attitude that well-rounded individual should take the places of the truly academically gifted and diligent that has deteriorated the American dominance in science, engineering and technology.  Once we were the unchallenged leader in those areas and now we are just one of the top-10 nations in those areas.  We have diluted our intellectual dominance with jacks/jills-of-all-trades.
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No, just no. The scientists and engineers that we want to develop can see across disciplines, make cognitive leaps, and immerse themselves in their work out a sense of wonder and curiosity rather than duty. And for the record, I am an Asian engineering phd[/quote]

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