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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges look for future leaders, that concept is vastly different from Olympiad winners.  Olympia competition is limited to math, physics, chemistry, biology, information science.  Limiting seats to Olympia winners is an extremely weird idea.  The majority of math Olympia winners end up at Jane Street and Citadel.  Do we want that for our society as a whole? Naw.

I think, if anything, we should exclude these Olympia people from the top colleges.  They are free to attend state universities and such.  [/quote]

That’s one of the most stupid comment I’ve read on this forum.

Are you afraid they ruin the curve at your kid’s Ivy?

Doing well in those competitions or other stem competitions for that matter, builds critical thinking and resilience, plus that they have a higher IQ than most kids. [/quote]
What would you do to test the other 50% of the campus that aren't in these specific testable majors?[/quote]

There are only a few hundred campers each year, can’t even fill a liberal art college.  [/quote]

Then just have JS set up JSU to collect those, a pipeline better than Bucknell.[/quote]
Palantir already has gotten started by giving internships to students committed to not going to college. It'd honestly be amazing for everyone if these kinds of people skipped out on education.[/quote]

What do they have internships in? What are "these kinds of people" - palantir=exceptional?[/quote]

These are kids that already have 5+ years of skills that they learned on their own.  Hate to make the reference…but they are the DOGE types of kids.

[/quote] No, the DOGE kids have no experience. Certainly none relevant to their positions.[/quote]

Skills and experience are two different things.  The DOGE kids do have more ability and skill than 98% of all CS college grads and often had jobs in HS.

Just pointing out that this is the profile of the kids getting the Palantir internship.[/quote]Nothing the DOGE/Palantir kids have ever seen/played around with looks anything like a large Federal agency's loosely integrated set of systems built and screwed around with for decades.  And, Federal systems are not computer science projects, they're custom/one-off implementations supporting complex Federal business requirements.[/quote]

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