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post college acceptances
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: phflack on February 16, 2017, 09:24:24 PM ---but any good school is
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Doesn't even have to be MIT or Harvard anymore. The competition is so stiff that you're still liable to be rejected even if you've got near-perfect test scores.
extremely extreme:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 16, 2017, 09:28:16 PM ---Doesn't even have to be MIT or Harvard anymore. The competition is so stiff that you're still liable to be rejected even if you've got near-perfect test scores.
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no way this is true. nobody i know has ever been rejected from a university
Magus:
Not exactly an acceptance, or even close, but the Pratt Institute sent me a letter because of my SAT/PSAT/ACT/whatever scores.
phflack:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 16, 2017, 09:28:16 PM ---Doesn't even have to be MIT or Harvard anymore. The competition is so stiff that you're still liable to be rejected even if you've got near-perfect test scores.
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MIT and Harvard are technically ivy league, which he was excluding
I was thinking more of UMass and Tufts and WPI
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: phflack on February 16, 2017, 09:44:35 PM ---MIT and Harvard are technically ivy league, which he was excluding
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Harvard is, but MIT isn't.
Contrary to popular belief, Ivy League doesn't actually mean 'one of the best schools'. It's just an athletic conference that happens to cover a lot of good schools at once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League