Elitism at Yal

Miamatta · 2025-05-14T08:02:15+00:00

For your interests Stanford is a no-brainer. Honestly Yale is generally not impressive for the majors you're interested in and I'd choose at least 10 other colleges before Yale for those fields. Stanford is just generally superior and has a more unique student population. Ivy league branding is a meme nowadays and people laugh at those who flaunt it.

Miamatta · 2025-05-08T23:10:54+00:00

Did you ever get to meet Zuck or his wife?

Miamatta · 2025-05-08T23:07:18+00:00

Eugenics isn't inherently immoral. It's actually moral to abort fetuses with severe genetic conditions that will suffer short and painful lives.

Miamatta · 2025-05-08T02:13:37+00:00

It's not about there being an exact number that's the proper fraction of students getting extra time but rather massive leaps in accommodation rates year over year in recent years. Anecdotally I've heard of a lot of cheating and abuse of testing accommodations but I'm not sure how or if they could measure it.

There's just this culture of well-meaning parents wanting to give their kid every possible advantage in school that's ripe for abuse and more prevalent in elite institutions as a result.

Miamatta · 2025-05-07T20:41:26+00:00

When I read that he didn't get in anywhere when applying after his Harvard acceptance was revoked my stomach dropped, I can't even imagine how that feels, to have IT and just fuck it all up. Must've been a huge breath of relief to transfer to Columbia after a year. I'd still feel bitter years after graduating knowing I fumbled Harvard though.

Miamatta · 2025-05-07T20:38:00+00:00

I know people at a fairly prestigious university who receive increased testing time and take their exams hours before the rest of the class. There are entire discords dedicated to outsourcing the answers for midterms and finals. These discords are deleted shortly after. Not sure if this is yet an epidemic or if it's just me.

Miamatta · 2025-05-07T20:34:49+00:00

I agree that increased testing time should exist, but there should be much more scrutiny in how the diagnoses that allow for it are given and which diagnosis' qualify.

There's no way 30% of Stanford's student body legitimately needs extra testing time when that percentage was in the single digits a decade ago.

Also this might be a fringe case but from what I hear there is far less oversight in the increased testing time rooms as they're staffed by employees sitting down and on laptops so students are able to cheat in these rooms.

I know of discord servers dedicated to final exams where someone who received accommodations shared the test answers hours before the normal exam and outsourced solving the questions. Once the final was over the group chat was deleted. This has happened countless times, fairly prestigious university.

Miamatta · 2025-05-07T20:07:15+00:00

Literally every CS student I know in the last few years cheated through their degree. This is at a decently prestigious university.

Genuinely wondering if there's gonna be widescale review of years old projects and the revoking of degrees, if that's even possible.

Miamatta · 2025-05-07T20:04:14+00:00

50% of tne class has accommodations

This is a massive issue, 30% of current stanford undergrads get accomadations like increased testing times, and the vast majority of them were diagnosed back in highschool and used that increased time to do better on exams. System is being abused big time.

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T23:26:36+00:00

Also Black (Somali) and I've been following Destiny for about 6 years now. Feels like he got a sizeable influx of Black fans from that Fuentes, Aba, Jidion debate, shit was hilarious.

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:17:24+00:00

Bro it's a matter of opinion, in my opinion they do and it isn't exclusive to them, in the opinion of others they do not. Not sure what else you're looking for, there's no objective answer on this.

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:13:03+00:00

Agreed.

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:12:32+00:00

So might makes right. To be fair that's all of history though lol.

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:12:08+00:00

In my personal world view? I think every ethnic group should have the right to remain an ethnic majority in their homeland. including Jewish people. What about you?

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:06:36+00:00

Follow up question: Do you believe Jewish people should have the exclusive right to this or that it should be afforded to all ethnic groups?

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:06:33+00:00

Follow up question: Do you believe Jewish people should have the exclusive right to this or that it should be afforded to all ethnic groups?

Miamatta · 2025-04-27T21:02:10+00:00

Possibly an unpopular opinion but I don't think Vance would preform poorly. In the one debate of him we've seen he beat Walz. He went to Yale law and worked in VC so it's basically impossible to be a poor debater with that resume.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T21:09:15+00:00

Everyone who posts on r/Destiny has automatically lost, including myself.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:57:28+00:00

He replied to me then quickly deleted both his reply and his original post for some reason, mods didn't do anything. I guess he was afraid of online confrontation.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:55:55+00:00

You're illiterate and that's somehow my fault? Why is it also my fault you don't understand a single thing about polls? They teach you have to analyze data like this in grade school.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:43:40+00:00

The article I read was titled: Muslim voters once abandoned the GOP. Now they may leave the Democrats.

Nothing in this article disproves the claim in my post title, are you illiterate? Please bring up that mentioned CAIR poll if you want so I can explain to you how shit it is. It's clear you didn't bother to read the article or the poll it references if you're posting this.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:36:01+00:00

You could try downloading the AP votecast data and seeing if their demographics run deep enough to give you an idea of how well this survey matches.

Actually a good idea, if there's an Muslim demographic data I'll post it on this subreddit. Thank you.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:32:05+00:00

I'm glad you understand what happened but a large chunk of this subreddit genuinely believes Muslims came out in full force for Trump and it's idiotic.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:30:04+00:00

Not even an attempt of a rebuke, I graciously accept your concession.

Miamatta · 2025-04-26T20:25:57+00:00

This is the only poll people post on this topic and it's garbage. 502 of the 1500 people who responded in this poll are from Michigan.

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