[quote=outtamojo]
I guess you and Flu both agree that AP classes should not be taught to everyone but I think it is better to find out how gifted you are while school is free than flame out in college. I know of more than a few high school classmates who never took AP classes, got into places like Berkely and Yale on what must have been, ahem, ethnic quota fulfillment, and then flunked out after 1 year. Which is more of a waste?[/quote]
Being gifted in you doesn’t mean shit. Being driven an passionate that matters makes a huge different. People that I knew that were gifted and breezed through HS and got into Harvard/MIT subsequently flunked out because they were lazy. People that weren’t the rock stars but worked for it did well and ended up working for Goldman (ok maybe, that’s not such a good thing 🙂
But let’s talk about ethnic quotas, since you mentioned it.. It’s my favorite topic… Which ethicity were you referring to here when you said
[quote] “I know of more than a few high school classmates who never took AP classes, got into places like Berkely and Yale on what must have been, ahem, ethnic quota fulfillment, and then flunked out after 1 year. Which is more of a waste”?
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I hope you’re not going to say “asian” quota/affirmative action …… I worked some time in the admissions office at an ivy league school at some point or another as as student member. I can tell you, asians were lucky if there wasn’t any reverse-quotas (IE limit in number of asians that could attend). But that was during my time…Maybe things are different these days…
I kid you not when I said, my kid’s going to have a different last name when it’s her turn to apply to college.
