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Subject: Re: Preparing for GRE's (especially Computer Science)
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Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 00:24:26 EST
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In article <3272@utai.UUCP> gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst) writes:
>
>... How else can you decide between someone who got B grades at
>Stanford and someone who got A+ grades at South Dakota State?
>
	The man has a point.  There are, I suppose, people who
automatically suppose that anyone who graduates from Stanford must
be a better candidate than anyone who graduates from South Dakota
State, regardless of what kind of grades they got.  What is the
poor student from SDSU to do?  Why, take the GRE's of course.
Then the admission committee will see that those A's are real,
and that their automatic prejudice against SDSU et al are unfounded,

	As you might suspect, I am a graduate from SDSU (class of 65).
I will note in passing that I aced the GRE's in math, as in answered
all of the questions correctly (I also scored in the 99th percentile
in the general aptitude tests.)  So I suppose, at least in my case,
it might be the case that an A at SDSU might be almost as good as a
B at Stanford.  In fact, you might even wonder if an A at Stanford is
almost as good as a B at SDSU?  Naah.  No way. Snicker.

-- 

Richard Harter, SMDS Inc. [Disclaimers not permitted by company policy.]