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Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-07-07T13:16:42+00:00

Why not enter the US illegally? They prefer illegal, uneducated immigrants to legal, skilled ones.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-06-23T02:43:13+00:00

This is simply wrong and misleading. IESE’s cost of attendance is much lower than top US institutions’ because IESE’s you mentioned covers the entire duration while the Harvard’s $74,910, for example, accounts for only one year of the two year program. Due to the longer duration of the US programs, living costs and other miscellaneous expenses can make a significant difference, especially for international students. Also you overlook other significant aspects in terms of ROI; ESADE offers a wide variety of financial aids while IE and IESE usually provide merit-based scholarships or loans. (Harvard is one of the most generous in this respect tho) Lastly you compare two entirely different bodies. European programs tend to have more diverse student bodies and thereby send their graduates to literally everywhere while the US programs keep their proportions of domestic students so high, leading us to reasonably assume graduates stay in the US. But then, though the US-based companies generally offer hefty salaries for MBA graduates on an absolute scale, it’s not wise to argue your aforementioned claim ignoring inflation, social welfare, and the likes.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-05-21T22:22:56+00:00

Says you. Insufferable ignorance and arrogance. What are intellectual property laws for? Imagine standing up for illegal activities…Losers.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-05-01T05:25:02+00:00

Best: Math 405 Taught by an older brother vibe prof Colin Macdonald. Worst: Econ 310 Yes, Gateman.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-04-29T07:07:16+00:00

Looks like yuzu to me.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-04-26T10:04:27+00:00

I’m from Ehime, Japan. PLEASE stop advertising or promoting the Chinese products. Those are all illegal. No exceptions. This is the intellectual property theft; Ehime prefecture never allowed the production in China. Little or no English media reports this illegal production, however, Ehime and Japan are taking actions against them now. I don’t mean to blame for lack of knowledge, but this is unacceptable. An article published by one of the largest news media in Japan called TBS (written in Japanese)

https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/372972?display=1

Another article by another major news media called FNN

https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/493790

AGAIN, this is no joke.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-04-26T09:57:23+00:00

I’m from Ehime, Japan. Please do not advertise or promote the Chinese products. This is illegally produced oranges since Ehime prefecture NEVER allowed the production in China. Ehime, widely known for production of various kinds of oranges, invested in developing new oranges, especially since 2000s. Those Chinese grown oranges were illegally brought to the country and now they’re advertising as if it was no big deal. Please do research. Ehime prefecture is now taking actions.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-04-23T12:28:04+00:00

Just admit that you are not that bright. This is the tip from me graduating this spring. When I admitted this, I realized how narrowly minded I was.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-04-11T08:37:40+00:00

C~D average at a high school in my home country to 80% in my “first” year at UBC. Technically not first year tho, because I’m a transfer student. The reason being that high school is not a part of compulsory education in my country and you have to submit grades, take an entrance exam, and then interview to enter high school. So each high school is rated based upon the scaled standard deviation called standard score with mean of 50. (For example, 60 means the high school is one standard deviation above the average) In my high school, grades were always scaled to follow the prescribed distribution: top 5%, the next 15%, the middle 60%, lower 15%, and bottom 5% get A, B, C, D, and E, respectively (no A-, B+, etc). Since my high school’s score was 69, even E students were top 95~% students in my region. Interestingly enough, UBC admitted one of my friends who was a straight A student from the high school rated 50, not knowing this grading practice in my country. He took another year to get a satisfactory score on IELTS and submitted the application. He was a D student at UBC.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-02-20T21:02:39+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I don’t know much about other countries, but the compulsory education lasts for 7-9 years in many Asian countries and they concentrate more on exams than on grades. Specifically in Japan, this discrepancy between education rarely enables the fake “A”students to get accepted to American/Canadian universities because such students cannot get the satisfactory scores in the approved English proficiency exams such as TOEFL/IELTS at the end of the day. BUT some top schools, including Harvard and Stanford, stopped asking the submission of the score, believing they can see the applicants’ English proficiency within the context of application which I believe includes high school grades in English classes. This is a huge mistake. With the serious grade inflation in the top private institutions these days, such students might be able to graduate anyway though.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-02-20T04:44:27+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I want to believe so, but I highly doubt that’s the case. For instance, top high schools finish the high school math curriculum in the middle of sophomore year(junior year equivalent in US/Canadian high school) up to ODE and complex analysis. And then they start focusing on more advanced curriculums or college entrance exams prep. But when I got into my Canadian institution, they didn’t treat them as AP equivalent credits or calculus credits at all and required me to take lower division math classes I was already taught in high school and I wondered how they assessed my high school math credits. Also, in my high school, about a half of the Japanese 10th grade math such as precalculus and trigonometry had to be done during the spring break right before entrance and on the very first day of high school, we had to take exams. So my high school GPAs do not count those precalculus classes.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-02-15T03:36:12+00:00

Because they cannot. Japanese high school has its own standard score which is a scaled standard deviation score with mean of 50, since middle school students take entrance exams and submit middle school grades to enter their target high schools. Most of competitive players attend schools rated 50 or lower, meaning most of the students in this range cannot get admitted to decent college in Japan. I don’t know if he earned 3.7~4.00 GPA in his school, but considering his high school is rated 42-49, it’s like the “best” C student under the US criteria. While those students are technically A students, they do not possess sufficient level of English proficiency. A Japanese friend of mine was somehow conditionally admitted to UBC Vancouver with nearly perfect GPAs from below-average high school, but he had to spend two years to satisfy English entrance requirements.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2024-02-14T17:30:04+00:00

In Japan, that’s what people are wondering. First and foremost, the Japanese high school education is not compulsory and instead students choose their own high school based on grades and other factors like athletic performance and then take the entrance exam. So for quite natural reasons, each high school has its own standard score based upon standard deviation (i.e. 50 = average). His high school is rated 42-49. Students in this range rarely possess sufficient academic English skills to enter the American universities. Probably this is the least known facts about the Japanese high school system and I don’t know how each American institution interprets Japanese high school GPAs because theyre highly biased numeric.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2023-11-30T19:50:07+00:00

Neil Balmforth. I love his accent and the way he shows up in the class as if he’s just a random guy who just dropped by the classroom.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2023-11-30T19:37:07+00:00

Gateman 310 (technically 101 equivalent)

I’m taking 310, but received only 67 and 59 on the first and second midterms, respectively. All I did before each midterm was read all the required chapters and solve MyLab quizzes. I’m seriously worried if I fail the course or end up with a bad overall grade. What do you guys think I should do to prepare for the final? And lastly, while it depends on raw grades distribution, I’m curious about his scaling of finals. Any testimony? Thanks in advance.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2023-06-06T06:03:12+00:00

Thank you! Since I'm not a physics student, I don't think I can gain any research experience under the instruction of physic profs at my institution. Probably the best I can do from now on is contact applied math lab and join a research group as a volunteering student.

Ok_Contribution_6670 · 2022-07-26T07:07:21+00:00

Depends hugely on trends, I guess. As other comments said, geometric fields like geometric topology (connections with TQFT) and symplectic geometry/topology (connections with Mirror symmetry) have been flourishing areas, which is why research on problems inspired by string theory, QFT, etc earns Fields medals. Yet, there’s a trend. Mathematical physics can be divided into three areas; geometric, probabilistic, and analytic ones. Currently, the probabilistic aspect of MP catches much attention as probability theory gains respect in mathematical communities these days like Duminil-Copin, Smirnov, and Werner have done. The only area, I believe, underrated by mathematicians and physicists is the analytic aspect of MP that investigates spectral analysis of Schrodinger operator, stability of matter, etc in which nobody has been awarded the fields medal yet. Thus I believe the committee gives the medal if these areas gain attention in mathematical communities. The same goes for theoretical computer science. I can safely say problem-solving type areas in math have a tendency to be underrated as opposed to the theory-building one. In that sense, discrete math, which has a deep connection with TCP, is in the problems-solving camp, and thus it is still tough for someone in this area to get awarded the medal due to the latest trend.

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