[374] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Big Rant: Political correctness, Aff. Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aisha D Stroman)
Mon Apr 30 23:58:22 2001
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To: Justin M Nelson <jmnelson@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:57:59 -0400
From: Aisha D Stroman <adstrom@MIT.EDU>
May I suggest that someone speak to the Dean of Admissions on this matter?
Otherwise, everything is hearsay and suspicions.
Aisha
>> in response to anne's words about reading applications:
>>
>> key word here is reading applications, not choosing. correct me if i am wro
*ng, but that mean you were reading essays and assigning a value to those essa
*ys/apllications. this means that how anne graded these essays/applications w
*ent on record as probably an index number i would guess or a written evaluati
*on. perhaps i just misunderstood the wording but this is what it seems to me
*. this means that this has absolutely nothing to do with the process of sele
*ction that (i cant remember his name) suggested about the piles and how appli
*cants were chosen from them. all this means is that the numbers are equally
*assigned for the people who choose to choose from. it is in this process tha
*t affirmative action takes place. once again perhaps i just completely misun
*derstood and you were in fact on the committee that made the final decision o
*f who was getting in but it seemed like you were making a reference to giving
* an index to the essay. noone ever stated that an advantage was giv!
>> en here.
>>
>> as far as your list of 100 people and that everyone you thought wasnt quali
*fied didnt get in. i would have to ask about how many on the lis that you th
*ought were qualified didnt get in. (going by your stats of your personal opi
*nion and how many people get in here) out of the 100, you would think 85 were
* qualified to make it but out of those 100, only 16 would get in. basic stat
*istics and some good ole commen sense would see its quite easy for you to mak
*e the claim that noone got in that you didnt think was qualified. the questi
*on remains whether some people who didnt get in were more qualified than thos
*e that did. that was not answered at all (im not attacking you on this. it'
*s rather obvious such a judgement is almost impossible from someone who saw s
*uch a limited part of the application)
>>
>> justin
>>
>> "i will attack and question your argument with no pretense of authority"
>> aristotle
Aisha Stroman
MIT
Computer Science and Engineering
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