Recently I was just trolling the web when I came across an article about a senior in high school with a 3.8 GPA and 18 hours of college credit in Physics, Math, and Chemistry who got rejected from MIT for "Not Having Enough Activities." Apparently because the student did not participate in sports, band, or any school clubs he was not MIT Material. His excuse was that he worked those four years in high school because he needed income.
Do you think the lack of afterschool activities organized by the school is a reason to reject students from College? Myself I think its a rather shoddy reasion: as if band is so nessecary to organize your life in college! Its not as if Niels Bohr, Henry David Thoreau, or John Locke needed to play football to be intelligent enough to make some of the most important contributions to human knowledge ever.
Imagine what would the world be like if Steve Wozniak brought the Apple 1 out and consumers said "but did you play chess in your spare time?"
2007-10-04
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