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I like to think I wasn't "judging" anyone, but I know what you mean. Because we used both GPA and test scores, yes, you almost certainly would have been a "deny" with a 36 ACT and …

You might be an outlier! But it sounds like you did not graduate high school or apply to college. If that’s correct, I would not have the context to know since the baseline of incl…

I worked in the underrepresented student office, so I was keenly aware/curious about that possibility when I began. However, after reviewing thousands of applications, my experienc…

Excellent question. I’m of two minds here. As a high school student, I too struggled to get great test scores. I took the SAT four times, which finally resulted in a score that cou…

From a state school’s Admissions perspective, where the unit test resolves to admit/deny, there is nothing particularly outlying about your scores from what I recall. I see 31 and …

Great question - the short answer is that our Admissions office did not attempt to normalize non-mathematical factors. At first, this surprised me. How often do we as students some…

I worked in Admissions at a large state school from 2005-2007. Our method for determining admissibility reminded me of the heat map chart in this article - ie GPA on one axis, SAT/…

I'm still messing with it, so that link probably won't work anymore. :) But this one will (until I get the bug and mess with it even more, haha): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/…

tldr; Podcast of well-spoken robots reading recent news, here's how to listen in iTunes: http://i.imgur.com/67VFszI.png Here's the podcast link you see in that pic: https://dl.drop…

This is probably a dumb question, but how do I get this to work in OS X? Bash says it cannot execute binary file despite chmod +x /path/to/mailer - thanks.

Just two serious reactions!? Come on people! We want to see a flame war apocalypse and we'll never get there at this rate! Surely there must be some deep seeded angst-ridden phrase…

The advantage and disadvantage of this approach: you have to already know Unix commands. Inevitably all programmers learn Unix commands - but probably a rough approach for beginner…