<p>No! Judging applicants based on their differences is what college/admissions is all about. They’re not saying “ohh, he wants to major in this…well nuts to him this major sucks I don’t like it, he shouldn’t be allowed to major in it.” Identifying people along an (albeit arbitrary) spectrum is judging aptitude for a certain form or style of learning where everybody has a fundamentally equal chance to everyone else. That’s not the same as actively punishing admissions decisions over the choice of major itself or over the person’s name or something.</p>
<p>Eh, I’m half-asleep but that should have made sense.</p>
Or maybe “MIT: Our students build nuclear reactors in garages” sounds less impressive than “MIT: We turn down kids that build nuclear reactors in garages.”</p>
<p>You hear the funny story there? My buddy heard it when he visited.</p>
<p>Emma Watson was in a lecture hall class, I forget what, and the professor was trying to get the students to answer a question. No one could and eventually Emma raised her hand and aswered correctly. Just then a kid in the back of the class stood up and shouted “Ten points for Griffindor!”</p>
Pretty sure that’s been said 1000 times on CC and debunked 1000 times. I’ve seen posters link to an interview of hers wherein she’s asked if it really happened and said no.</p>
If, hypothetically, I added “bitter cs majors” and “■■■■■” to all the recent anti-liberal arts threads, I might have come clean about it, if I was sure it wasn’t against the rules.</p>
<p>But that’s just hypothetical. Probably what whoever really started it is thinking, too.</p>
<p>Typical lib arts majors - derailing the thread because they realized they cant win. have fun being sad and unemployed, guys. maybe one day you’ll work in retail selling the merchandise made by my engineering firm.</p>
<p>^Reading Brave New World would require a mind capable of critical thinking, OP has starved the critical thinking parts of his brain to the point of inanition. It’s just kind of sad it took his logic lobes along with them.</p>
<p>But… I totally love how this kid who is a college Junior and just now 18 thinks he can stand up to people who’ve been in college for 3, 4, even 5 years. Even a 1st semester Freshman could tell his arguments are fallacious. Hon, back when I was 18 I liked to debate on Propeller.com (formerly netscape forums) about political issues. I liked to stand up to the older people there too, but the difference was the people I was standing up to were actually idiots. That wasn’t just my opinion of them. Their facts were actually wrong, from an educated standpoint. Of course they weren’t really the college-educated type either so… that probably makes a difference.</p>
<p>jduster, just hit that “bitter cs majors” tag at the bottom of the thread, and you’ll see a bunch of these recent threads. Though there’s one (about not liking college), that doesn’t really pertain.</p>