[66748] in Cypherpunks
Re: Public Schools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adamsc)
Sun Sep 29 01:38:56 1996
From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
To: "cypherpunks@toad.com" <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
"ronsimpson@unidial.com" <ronsimpson@unidial.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 96 22:11:51 -0700
Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:22:05 -0400, ronsimpson wrote:
>I hate to burst any bubbles but, the school with the highest number of
>National Merit Finalists and highest number of 1600 SATs is a Public
>High School (Jefferson High in Fairfax, VA)
This probably just means that they have a good SAT cram course. Ditto for
the NMS. I've run into people who've done well on the SATs and have been
rather underwhelmed. In my opinion it's like MIPS: Meaningless Indicator
# Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp
# <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY"
"That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them."
--- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)
