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And Bush went to Yale... Did your parents get a knock this morning, something about bribing admissions kingmakers? You're a complete fraud if you think 80 models millions in a psychological human-reaction experimentation.

I'll just leave this here...

"Make it about “political correctness run amok”: For instance, you might open the article with the transgender students’ protesting the Person of Stature’s University talk. But then you will pan back and show that this is but one instance among many in a much larger and disturbing trend sweeping the nation—aka, “political correctness running amok.” (I am not sure why political correctness is always “running amok” as opposed to other synonymous phrases, but just roll with it.) And at this point, you can simply provide readers with a laundry list of seemingly similar incidents of activists and minority groups taking things way too far with their “political correctness” and “censorship.” For examples of this laundry-list approach, see recent high profile pieces by Jonathan Chait, Michelle Goldberg, and Caitlin Flanagan (there are countless others—The Atlantic alone seems to be churning out one or two of these per month!). The benefit of this approach is that you don’t have to go too in depth about any specific issue (e.g., interviewing all the parties involved, accurately conveying their differing perspectives, etc.)—you can just hastily depict all of them as being outrageous. Additionally, this allows you to conflate some potentially legitimate issues (e.g., protests of the Person of Stature) with a bunch of random mean things that random people (who have no stature) have said on Twitter." https://medium.com/@juliaseran...
"When people rail against political correctness, they're usually stating that it has run amok." http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...
"Political Correctness Run Amuck!" http://reflectionsfromtheburg....
"On the other hand, I do think political correctness has run amuck" http://greginhollywood.com/jer...
"There are those who claim that political correctness has run amuck." http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/ne...
"Flag defenders: Political correctness has run amok." https://www.dailyadvance.com/n...
“the clearest example of political correctness run amok that I have seen in quite some time.” http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyh...
"Political correctness run amuck again." http://forum.woodenboat.com/sh...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" http://talk.collegeconfidentia...
"Political Correctness Run Amok" http://www.newsmax.com/Freind/...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Has Political Correctness Run Amok?" https://www.insidehighered.com...
"In Fort Collins, political correctness run amok"

This exactly describes the situation in our company. The Indians have no initiative, no desire to learn things off the clock. They ignore production alerts until they pile up and then look for somebody else to blame. They ignore everything. They are uncreative and cannot come up with any solution to save their lives. I have had to deal with this in various companies over the last 15 years. They are just stupid and useless. They all want us to believe that Indians are smart but where is the evidence? If you research it, you discover that Indians universities are rife with cheating and when they come to universities in the US, they are terrible cheaters.
In short, that is the Indian way and that is one reason that India itself is such a total shithole.

In NYC, we had a terrible problem with Indians in that they never flushed their own toilets and often pissed on the toilet seats, as if they were high caste and expected someone else to do it. Their code was just as sloppy and slapdash. Every company I have worked for eventually gets the picture that they are terrible workers, stupid and not worth even the piddling money they earn. I have been gratified to see them driven out of every company I work for. It's a damned relief.

The route described in the article is kind of arcane, and he leaves out one of the easiest ways, not just for getting partial funding, but even getting all of your costs funded: High SAT scores.

There are plenty of fully accredited 4-year universities out there who will pay for everything just based on SAT scores or a combination of GPA and SAT scores.

We're talking "Full Ride", like tuition, room, board, and books in many cases:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ridescholarships.html

or significant scholarships that can get the net 4-year cost down to varying levels:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html?highlight=automatic

All based on quantitative measurements alone.

It's hard to say why Richard Linder went through such obscure means in order to get his credits rather than just studying his ass off for the SAT's, but I suspect the reason why he went for "cheap credits" is where the real untold story is.

The route described in the article is kind of arcane, and he leaves out one of the easiest ways, not just for getting partial funding, but even getting all of your costs funded: High SAT scores.

There are plenty of fully accredited 4-year universities out there who will pay for everything just based on SAT scores or a combination of GPA and SAT scores.

We're talking "Full Ride", like tuition, room, board, and books in many cases:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ridescholarships.html

or significant scholarships that can get the net 4-year cost down to varying levels:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html?highlight=automatic

All based on quantitative measurements alone.

It's hard to say why Richard Linder went through such obscure means in order to get his credits rather than just studying his ass off for the SAT's, but I suspect the reason why he went for "cheap credits" is where the real untold story is.

So where does your state come on this list? http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe-election-politics/802116-how-much-does-your-state-get-federal-government.html. Looks like the non-"flyover" states get a lot less back from the Federal government than they put in. Let's face it, if the U.S. could keep the western sea-board and then north-east and ditch the rest, the country would be in a lot better shape. As for Europeans and fly-over, where I come from fly-over means an overpass. Last I checked, my home country was part of Europe and we never use that term.

That's all a good observation - that college's value is social. That's certainly obvious to me after X number of interviews where they didn't give two shits that I'd gone to college at all, let alone what classes I took.

But here's a newsflash: Rich kids can be some of the least socialized. Coddled and isolated from the outside world, they can be of shockingly little practical value unless specifically molded to a task (which college happily does for them).

Let's take Harvard, for example. They produced the Unabomber. They produced Barack "Empty Shell" Obama. They produced any number of people who went on to join religious cults. And their suicide rate is 1.5 students per year.

Point being, there's no shortage of wackos at Ivy League schools. In a Crimson survey, 10% of Harvard students reported seriously considering suicide in the past year. Good luck "networking" in that environment.

I would say, start working at 16. Unless you're tragically dumb, in which case, Harvard is probably for you.

Let it rip. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cc-top-universities/

The College Board, who administers the test, has information on their site about what the test covers. Another useful resource is the CollegeConfidential forum (The College Confidential company offers paid admissions advice, but they have a free message board that's filled with tons of useful information and people who can probably answer any questions you have.

Japanese students are obsessed about grades, because to be successful in life, they have to be perfect students, and get great grades, and do very well on exams. I'd imagine that if we put American kids into that kind of situation, the rates would be even *worse*.

American kids are put in these kinds of situations (albeit not to the extent as in Japan). I suppose you've never been to the College Confidential message boards, haven't you? Go to some of the sections about getting into college and high school preparation, and come back with your findings. None of them are suicidal, but the board is filled with perfectionists, complaining about 2390s on the SAT (highest score is 2400 now), 3.99 GPAs versus 4.0s, and stressing themselves out wondering if they have the stats to get into MIT and Stanford. (The graduate school boards are similar). I went to that site when I was in 11th grade, accidentally stubling across it to find college admissions advice. Let's just say, that site made my perfectionism a bit worse (even though it never got as bad as some people on the board), until I finally went away from it after two months of browsing.

I'm a CS freshman at a reasonably good university, but I am still an ardent perfectionist, even though I haven't been doing a good job at being perfect ;) (looks at my sub-3.4 GPA). There are certain goals that I have (such as being a researcher) that require that I do extremely well in school. However, my fear is not doing well. The other issues with perfectionists is what is considered "well." To many perfectionists, a 3.0 or even a 3.5 college GPA is considered terrible, even though some people on campus will kill for that GPA (no pun intended). However, it seems that everybody needs to perform almost perfectly or perfectly to have a chance to get the best things in life, or they'll be shafted.

So, I feel that American kids are already feeling the pressure. The message is that you have to do exceptionally well in elemetary school, middle school, high school, and college in order to get anything in life. That, or learn how to be exceptional with a sport or be an exceptional performer.