Posted on 03/28/2022 8:03:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Wow—you only hire PhDs? Only 2% of the United States population has a PhD. Very rare.”
I am not looking to hire the 98%. In engineering, there are far more engineers than than 2% with engineering doctorates. It is fairly common to find a significant pool of qualified candidates with the right credentials. If it was easy then everyone would be doing it.
P.S. A case in point: When I took over a team with 35 engineers, four had engineering doctorates, and all had one or more engineering graduate degrees with and engineering undergraduate degrees. It was an enterprise systems architecture team and under performers were not hired or retained. To get through the interview the person had to be able to speak about accomplishments that required high level engineering. Designing multi-billion dollar systems isn’t done by nerds who do not have writing, social, and communication skills.
“ capstone projects with 5 people on a team and only 1 did any work but all passed.”
Group work is becoming more prevalent in many law schools. This may be why some people who appear to be very lacking in intelligence have law degrees.
Unfortunately, I have heard that it is beginning in medical school. This will lead to a serious decrease in the ability of our doctors. We know because of Covid that so many doctors are beholden to big Pharma and big medical conglomerates but hopefully they will still have knowledge and be able to think.
Russia and China reward hard work and intelligence.
The US rewards “special groups” and punishes hard work and intelligence.
There is no question who will own the future.
It’s great. A kid I used to babysit is getting a PhD in something extremely mathematical (not sure what) at Cal Tech. He’s always been brilliant and took Calculus in 9th grade or something like that.
I’m glad you are able to find the 2%. :)
If your primary goal is to get into a top California state college then move to a mediocre school district and be the top student.
“Russia and China reward hard work and intelligence.”
ROTFLMAO!
The Russians do not discriminate against ethnic Russians in education and employment.
The Chinese do not discriminate against ethnic Chinese in education and employment.
The US does discriminate against white Americans in education and employment.
There is nothing amusing about it—and it is an undeniable fact.
“There is nothing amusing about it—”
What is amusing is that you think these corrupt cultures reward the hard workers!
You don’t know much about communism!
Agreed. Or the student could take the path my 2nd son did: run the 11th fastest 2 mile in the state, and get recruited to a top CA state college for cross country and distance track:)
One problem with trying the “mediocre school district” plan is that they don’t offer the AP classes that both Cal State and UC really want to see on the transcripts (and those bump GPAs too).
So the colleges do look at AP tests? Isn’t that racist. Sports scholarships are far and few between. Especially Div. 1 and you are competing for very few spots nationwide. Not a realistic approach.
No, I know—I was somewhat kidding. Everyone thinks they can be recruited to play sports in the NCAA but it’s as rare as hen’s teeth. On the other hand, there are a lot of “lesser” sports if one works hard can be a path to admission (especially for girls).
AP scores are submitted but they are not used to evaluate admission to UC or Cal State. They can be used AFTER admission for placement purposes (and college credit sometimes).
But grades in AP classes (not the AP test) are considered for admission.
Also I see that MIT brought back the SAT after getting rid of it the past two years. Good for them. Maybe UC and Cal State will come to their senses as well, and for similar reasons:
But what does A+ in all AP subjects get you?
An A in an AP class gets you a 5.0 for that class instead of the normal 4.0.
That’s why the average GPA for entering freshman at UC Berkeley or UCLA is like 4.5 or something. As many As in as many AP classes as possible is the goal.
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