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Hmmm: Top STEM College Caltech drops calculus, chemistry and physics requirements "if your school didn't offer them"
Hotair ^ | 08/31/2023 | Beege Welborn

Posted on 08/31/2023 9:12:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: dr_lew2

I’d start saving the textbooks, because we will need them to rebuild society once we have moved these biastards along.


21 posted on 08/31/2023 9:51:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, if a lot of Chicoms enroll, and do not learn methods they could use to attack us, perhaps this will be a good thing. The USA citizens who want to keep America safe could enroll at Hillsdale College if they haven’t already had the necessary courses.

Heck, if any Chicoms actually enroll and spend 4 years at Hillsdale, they might return to China and spy for the USA.


22 posted on 08/31/2023 9:57:28 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: SeekAndFind

Many schools are no longer teaching the hard sciences and math. The geniuses already know it, and computers and calculators do the grunt work anyway, not people.


23 posted on 08/31/2023 10:00:45 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: rexthecat

Well, now it’s AI !

( If I was smart, I would know how to make a giant “AI” . )


24 posted on 08/31/2023 10:22:34 PM PDT by dr_lew2
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To: dr_lew2

This is nothing new for them.

When I was there 50 plus years ago they didn’t accept the HS guys with briefcases. They wanted intelligent guys who colored outside the lines.

Sounds like you would have fit in.

Feynman was a trip. I knew nothing of his status at the time but enjoyed his lecture more than i can describe.


25 posted on 08/31/2023 10:30:04 PM PDT by IAMIUBU
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To: SeekAndFind

A 5 on the AP Exam is actually even better than a solid SAT score for those subjects.


26 posted on 08/31/2023 10:37:07 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Right Brother; Jonty30

Top STEM no more.

-fJRoberts-


27 posted on 08/31/2023 10:57:08 PM PDT by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seriously?!
The tyrant WEF totalitarian rulers are not obvious enough to you yet ??


28 posted on 08/31/2023 11:05:18 PM PDT by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: dr_lew2
Went on to a career in programming at Bell Labs ...

BTW, this accounts for my FR login ID. I had a coworker who, in recognition of my academic status, addressed me as "Doctor Lew" , which was no doubt intended as a gentle jibe, but I rather liked it!

29 posted on 08/31/2023 11:10:13 PM PDT by dr_lew2
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To: SeekAndFind

All of those courses could be taken in Junior College.


30 posted on 08/31/2023 11:30:44 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind
a student still has to take course and pass a subject certification exam, or Caltech will also accept a score of 5 on AP exams and a score of 6 or 7 on International Baccalaureate exams

Sounds like good news. Many homeschooled students take alternate routes, such as AP tests. I know many who did well in college STEM majors and went on to earn graduate degrees.

31 posted on 08/31/2023 11:51:30 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SeekAndFind

if an aptitude towards STEM isn’t required for STEM then what’s the point?

political leanings are all they’re looking to admit and promote.

this is how they gain and maintain power.


32 posted on 09/01/2023 12:15:09 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Jonty30

Well....got a 3 billion or so endowment...35% asian student population, 23% white, 22% Hispanic, 3% black...so it can’t be money only....most likely social engineering...
Found out my alma mater gave out 50 percent or so “A”’s to the students last year. I guess bell curves are elitist, racist, and homophobic.

I think diplomas there are now printed on toilet paper. The diplomas as such would be more useful.


33 posted on 09/01/2023 12:25:24 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: ifinnegan

Are you trying to destroy the false narrative that is being bandied about? /s


34 posted on 09/01/2023 12:26:27 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Getready

That’s how they get their endowment increased, giving away diplomas.


35 posted on 09/01/2023 12:42:28 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Read more carefully. I did not read what you just said.


36 posted on 09/01/2023 12:55:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jonty30

I agree.


37 posted on 09/01/2023 12:57:07 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jonty30

The Biden era students will be known as incompetents.


38 posted on 09/01/2023 3:19:34 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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The problem is that this shit won’t stop at allowing Khan Academy to replace a few courses on a transcript. The “logic” behind this decision is cancerous. The most qualified applicants will still be those with math/science Olympiad medals, science fair winners, people who have conducted research at their local university, etc. What then? Will the standards be changed because not everyone has parents that care enough to give their children those opportunities? You can bet your ass they will if these people continue to have influence.

BTW, a truly motivated student who didn’t have access to those classes at their high school would take them from the local community college. In fact, many applicants to CalTech, MIT, etc. take courses beyond single variable calc through such schools. The options are already there. There’s just a certain community that doesn’t push its children and we all know what that community is.


39 posted on 09/01/2023 3:58:10 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: ifinnegan

RE: Read more carefully. I did not read what you just said.

Maybe you can explain it in a little more detail…


40 posted on 09/01/2023 4:26:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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