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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard's "remedial math" is just corequisite support for freshman calculus.[/quote]

And there can be extremely bright students who attend "lesser HS" in inner cities/rural areas where Pre-Calc is the "highest math" available.  So yes, those kids likely need a bit of extra help to succeed.  And most do, they are smart kids, just without the last 18 years of over privileged assistance with everything in life---they have had to work for everything and are surrounded by kids who are not close to them in intelligence (versus the privileged kid where 95%+ are headed to a 4 year college and the rest are starting in CC). 
[/quote]Yet these "extremely bright" students couldn't be bothered to use Couresa or OCW to learn more than what is offered in their school

Yes , yes, I know, colleges only expect kids to take the courses available in their school. Regardless of that standard, there's nothing to stop ambitious kids from standing and delivering.[/quote].

Well, at least some of these kids have part time jobs, family responsibilities, and extracurricular activities too.  Fortunately, the top tier schools have been at this admissions thing for quite a while. Awesome that they value the kids who are tugging themselves up by their bootstraps while still managing to live varied well-rounded lives.

[/quote]they have only been at it for a hundred years when too many jews started getting in. Before that, they only used test scores and grades.[/quote]

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