alephnerd

> I'm pretty sure you would get into Berkeley with that profile I was rejected from EECS@Cal and CS@CMU at the time (though my alum interviewer for CMU kept in contact with me to this day, and…

> overpopulation has been a concern for many decades, yet politicians that ignore the problem, or actually advocate for more population, somehow keep getting elected Most societies have reached a p…

> Good colleges are easy. The top few colleges are very hard Define "good" and "top". Ivies, Ivy Tier privates (Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, NYU, Caltech, Georget…

The Northeast isn't the rest of America, the same way someone in Maine isn't necessarily going to think about CMC or Harvey Mudd similarly Brown or Dartmouth doesn't come up much or at …

7% acceptance rate. They're selective. The "NYU/USC is a party school" trope is from back in the 1990s (aka 2 generations ago).

It gives students one semester of breathing room that allows them to chill out and concentrate on education for the sake of education. And UMich Ann Arbor is already massive - 8,000 students enroll a …

They ain't. A non-trivial amount of people have not heard of Brown or Dartmouth, and confuse UPenn with Penn State. Hell, I didn't hear about Brown until high school and I ended up attending…

Because in America, Ivy versus non-Ivy isn't the distinction. What matters is your major and whether it is a well respected program. A CS@Texas student will have the ability to open the exact s…

Do you know what it takes to get admitted into Mich tier programs in 2026? Kids will take multiple APs (taking 10+ isn't unheard of, and in a lot of high schools is expected), do multiple extracu…

Hehe. That's hilarious. Sadly, the barrier to entry for a lot of script kiddie shit is minimal and apparently common sense ain't common.

They never do. This happens every year at BH/Defcon, and they always make an example out of the perp yet someone always does some dumb shenanigans.

Every year some dumbass tries this kind of shenanigan during BH/Defcon and they always make an example out of them. Just becuase you CAN do something doesn't mean you should. You aren't…

I know, and the reason Digital and TI and Compaq weren't able to make as deep ecosystems as Xerox PARC or Fairchild did was because of the non-compete aspect back when companies were much more li…

SV exists thanks to CA's lack of non-competes and the Stanford and UC Berkeley innovation ecosystem. Otherwise, Boston, NYC, DMV, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and others all could h…

> Then why is getting into M.S programs much easier? Because domestic undergrads applying to a research-oriented grad program are advised to apply directly to a PhD program. MS/MA programs are…

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Absolutely. I think some degree of competitive attitude should be developed, but admissions since the late 2000s have become hyper-competitive. Pressure makes diamonds, but it also crushes everything …

Naw. Adult life is so much easier with regards to competitive pressure compared to getting into a good college. The real world is Pass/Fail, much to the chagrin of plenty of HNers.

^^^ This. 100% This. This kind of applicant is now treated as table stakes for programs like UMich, and acceptance rates for impacted majors like CS in top programs have dropped to single digits. It …

Yes, but publicly stating so on an anonymous forum where no one asked or cared is just a passive aggressive form of stating an opinion.

Yet you took the effort to write a response with no prompting...

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