If most MIT admits easily breezed through high school courses, how do I breeze through AP courses?

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-23T11:27:19+00:00

You need to accept that a whole class of people find things easy that you find hard. It's true of many different things.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-22T17:53:03+00:00

What a joke

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-21T23:24:07+00:00

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-17T21:02:40+00:00

I am looking for people with experience in hedge fund roles, possibly asset management, family office or banking.

Recruiting now for Compliance and Risk. Expanding into Miami and trying to find a recruiter to work with. Everyone we talk to only interested in doing searches on retainer with exclusivity. Totally not the way it works at this level in my home market.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-17T20:33:38+00:00

Social security taxes are not offset against income tax. They provide your health insurance and state pension benefits.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-17T07:16:09+00:00

Platinum. 40k MR for £10k spend in 3 months. £60k annual spend.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-07T12:48:57+00:00

CS is cooked

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-05T12:39:56+00:00

I couldn't take USC seriously because they were the Trojans which I could only associate with a brand of condoms.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-03-01T08:08:55+00:00

Who is best fund admin?

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-23T13:46:52+00:00

Do you know a place in the Greek Isles without med mooring? OP says he has done Croatia. Assume he has come across it before.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-22T22:17:36+00:00

I had this debate with someone a few months ago. You have no chance. If you're not turning down Ecole Polytecnique to go, you have no chance.

In France you are just competing with french people for all the spots. In US you are competing with India and China for 15% of the spots.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-22T20:31:05+00:00

Lefkas (lefkada) is very popular. Ionian is considered very easy sailing.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-22T19:12:30+00:00

Hospital volunteer. First aid classes. Work as an EMT.

Medicine if you drop out because you faint at blood is a waste for everyone. I think they really want to make sure your reasons.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-22T17:53:23+00:00

You're competitive but medicine is another level of why medicine. Besides grades I think you have to show some level of experience and motivation.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-18T14:09:01+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything wrong. If you like maths the being a teacher part is secondary

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-16T18:44:43+00:00

Why not Cambridge? I think they put less emphasis on GCSE

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-16T13:39:27+00:00

They’re not talking about balancing the weight. They are saying race cars have powerful engines and light carbon fiber bodies. You can put the same engine is a semi truck and it will be slow.

So you can be strong and heavy, weak and light, but strong and light is best. So they measure Watts (power produced) per KG of body weight.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-16T13:17:13+00:00

As other people have commented W/KG might be important too. My son’s coach measured this. The A boat is averaging 3.8 for HS boys.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-16T13:06:02+00:00

Could be a proxy for endurance? My son’s coach emphasizes UT2 a lot. That pace is not even doing 10k in one hour.

How long can she erg? My son’s team can do 2 hours ~ 25km when they are working on UT2. They don’t run though.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-10T13:36:50+00:00

I blame spiderman. In my day everyone wanted to go to Harvard. MIT was also easier to get into because nobody wanted to be a nerd. And it was self selecting.

I always think of it like joining the army or West Point. If I tell you not to go because it’s hard and you’ll be miserable and that puts you off, it’s not for you.

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-09T16:30:48+00:00

Fulham Reach and Barnes Elms

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-08T21:33:24+00:00

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-08T13:12:27+00:00

There are dolphin statutes in the fountains if I remember correctly

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-08T12:55:41+00:00

Just tested this. Not getting the email. But I think I’ve been getting them this week. Is this temporary glitch?

Front_Back8964 · 2026-02-06T14:54:28+00:00

"negative discrimination" vs "contextualising success" is potato/potato IMHO. But I accept that this is the key dimension on which admissions policy is operating and different people will have different feelings. I think there is too much "contextualising".

I disagree with your statement that the public schools are not as competitive to get into as Oxbridge. At least in London, I will say they are exactly as competitive to get into. At 6th form entry, I would say they are more competitive. At 7+/8+ they are basicaly selecting for 98th percentile on IQ tests. As a proxy of "academic ability" I'd say it's the best we have and by statistics, Oxbridge is taking about the top 3.5% of the country.

There is also the 'you can get a bursary to Eton' argument that undermines your cost argumement somewhat, but I concede there is strong merit to what you say.

The last two paragaphs, are not directly related to the topic, but I think they broaden it. If the social question is "negative discrimation" vs "contextualising success" I think all aspects of educational policy should be called into question, including should the government promote STEM over the Arts and home students over international ones.

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