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MIT's SAT Math Error
theodp writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that for years now, MIT wasn't properly calculating the average freshmen SAT scores (reg.) used to determine U.S. News & World Report's influential annual rankings. In response to an inquiry made by The Tech regarding the school's recent drop in the rankings, MIT revealed that in past years it had excluded the test scores of foreign students as well as those who fared better on the ACT than the SAT, both violations of the U.S. News rules. MIT's reported first-quartile SAT verbal and math scores for the 2006 incoming class totaled 1380, a drop of 50 points from 2005."
That is silly; I can find mainstream pundits that agree with pretty much any side of a debate. I agree with the OP moderation: first, this whole thread has little to do with the article (calculation of school ranking error) or even marginally relevant (are school rankings relevant). Instead, the first post takes the deliberately polarizing and wide-encompassing claim "college is not worth it" in a single line, obviously with the intent to garner a lot of replies.
Did the OP add anything to a conversation? Is a unilateral claim such as this insightful? Informative? Ask yourself this seriously. It is off topic, and just a way to get the predictable responses (I did well in school and have a sucky job... I didn't go to college and make millions...) A serious post would at least have some text, or make a well-reasoned claim to *something*. Some of the replies in the thread are actually insightful, and have been moderated accordingly.
The original post is pretty much the definition of a troll, and judging by the number and type of replies, a successful one.
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