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Replacing SAT with LEGOs
A reader writes "The Denver Post has a story about Colorado College, in an effort to attract minority and disadvantaged students, is dumping college-admission exams in favor of a Lego-building test, but only for a handful of applicants. 'The Lego test helps identify initiative, leadership and an ability to work in groups - qualities that hours-long ACT and SAT tests never quite get at.' " The college is working on this as a pilot program, along with eight other schools. Bet I could have gotten a better scholarship if they would have let me build a space station. -
Replacing SAT with LEGOs
A reader writes "The Denver Post has a story about Colorado College, in an effort to attract minority and disadvantaged students, is dumping college-admission exams in favor of a Lego-building test, but only for a handful of applicants. 'The Lego test helps identify initiative, leadership and an ability to work in groups - qualities that hours-long ACT and SAT tests never quite get at.' " The college is working on this as a pilot program, along with eight other schools. Bet I could have gotten a better scholarship if they would have let me build a space station. -
Every Comic on the Web?
Malachi Kenney writes " Chuck Rozanski, the the fellow who started Mile High Comics has a plan to put every comic book ever published on the web. " Now I'm not a comic book collector, but wow, that would be really cool. I'd pay a few bucks every now and then to browse comic books (course, I'd just look at the pictures. I love comics visually, but I just never got into the stories)