Foo, why you trying to go to graduate school?! You hate school!

 

I hate this school, not all schools. h:

I am not playing the race card, just wondering if I need to play it given certain past incidents.

 

Standardized tests are there to make sure that no one who actually thinks makes it into the classroom or the departmental office.

 

i always thought axe was irish

 

I always thought you were white 'cause you called a guitar an axe h: :rockon:

Anyway, round these parts we have affirmative action, so :dunno:

I would go to them with the credentials, side by side, and ask them to explain the discrepency. You have a right to know on what basis they they make their admission decisions. I would NOT bring up race (although just by making a statement, it could be inherently implied). But by suggesting they're racially discriminating, youre just illiciting hostility. I wouldn't even bring it up...

 

Sorry... but I have yet to meet an intelligent person that couldn't do better than that on a standardized test. Suck it up and earn the minimum required score, then bitch if you don't get accepted. If that is the case, you may want to consider race as valid issue here.

 

If there are 30 multiple choice questions on the test, is it better to:

a) solve as many as you can without double checking your work and pick C for the rest.

b) solve each problem carefully as fast as you can and double check your work.

c) just pick C and pray

Anyone working in large corporation will know that it takes a lot of time to finish a project because triple checking result and documenting all work are 2 very critical steps in a project. I know a few guys, who are fast with programing and scriptings, but their work is so shotty that it serves noone else any purpose. That means people have to repeat the same work over and over again because someone doesn't make their programs easy to read, understand, and debug so that they can be used as TOOLS and PLATFORMS for the rest of the company. Lockheed Martin has a very good standard for documenting their work. I deal with a few of their projects and I am impress of the level of detail they provide. They also charge a lot of each piece of code.

 

What about affirmative action? A clearly racist program adopted by every school that will choose the less qualified minority over the white student who worked their ass off to get into the school but gets denied because the school has a quota to admit certain amounts of blacks, asians, etc...

And I thought axemansean was some kind of Indian from Ireland. If that isn't a super-minority I don't know what is.

 

any respectable company looks at at least three criteria points for hiring applicants in a professional job:

1: employee's personal apperance (if he or she looks professional, if he or she can act in a professional manner). this criteria is usually easily met.

2: educational background: degrees, where they got the degree(s), grades, standardized test scores, etc

3: work experience: previous employer's opinions on applicant as an employee, what kind of work he or she did, internship work, a portfolio of work that was done by the applicant, etc.

so yea, a respecable employer may be impressed by grades and test scores, but they will always check out the work done by the applicant. i'd say that the thrid criteria listed right there is the most important out of the three.