<p>I’m sure lorem’s a smart guy, but that doesn’t take a genius to figure out :)</p>
<p>I could have never in my right mind done that. How much does your son charge for tutoring?</p>
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<p>Nothing in cash. But his friend is helping him further develop his self-designed community service project, and that will take many, many hours (but also look good on her college app).</p>
<p>Isn’t your son a senior Lorem? Where’s he going to end up going, Brown??</p>
<p>The moment I saw xy=14, it seemed evident that it was 7 and 2 and then I went from there.</p>
<p>NU is not alone in rapidly declining accept rates. Most of its peer schools are hovering in the 20% acceptance or lower range. If we assume that the number of ‘target students’ for NU and its peers hasn’t materially grown over the past 3-4 years (i.e., roughly the same number of students are falling in the >1450 SAT Range) and that the peer universities have roughly the same number of slots, then it shouldn’t be much harder to get into either NU or a peer.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is!! What’s happening is that students are applying to more and more schools. In the past the highly qualified students would complete 6 or 7 applications and get into 2 or 3 of the NU/Peer schools. Now, with common app, the norm is 10+ applications to get into the same 2/3 top schools. It’s basically a numbers game.</p>
<p>Or – most people are getting into the same level of school, but chances of getting into a #1 choice may be declining. Based on reading a number of schools’ threads pretty sure of at least the first part of this.</p>
<p>The important point – it’s a numbers game. I think it’s less a ‘perfect resume’ than being aware that the top students just have to apply to more schools I think most guidance counselors are aware of this. </p>
<p>Other points on this thread – Most SAT/ACT review courses, and I think most of the books go over the ‘tricks’, but the point is correct – the SAT/ACT are to a certain extent ‘games’ and there are a number of ways to boost a score if you look at it.</p>
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<p>He’s a 3-year graduate who just got promoted to senior a couple of weeks ago; he’s had the necessary credits since mid-year, but his school held him as a junior until he re-took the ACT – his other 36 apparently didn’t count because it was taken as a sophomore.</p>
<p>He did ultimately opt for Brown over NU, but has submitted a gap year request to work on his community service project, among other things.</p>
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<p>Uhh, Pizzagirl, doesn’t that give you the wrong answer?</p>
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<p>Pizzagirl, substituting in likely number combinations is also a tried-and-true shortcut. The problem with teaching such tactics is that they very narrowly apply to only the problem at hand and for those who just don’t “see” such solutions, one is usually better off presenting a more standard method of approach. I think the permitted use of a calculator is a crutch nowadays because it encourages students to jump right in with brute force rather than reflecting first. It’s quite possible to get all the math questions correct without bringing a calculator to the test.</p>
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<p>If x=2 and y=7 or vice versa, 1/x + 1/y = 1/2 + 1/7 = 7/14 + 2/14 = 9/14</p>
<p>I’m dumb- I added the fractions incorrectly that way. Clearly I’ve been away from arithmetic for as long as I have, but doing computer science more recently.</p>
<p>I was a math major and got a couple easy ones wrong on the GRE Q. Happens to the best of us :P</p>
<p>Gosh, you folks have been having so much fun with the last math problem, here’s a different one, from an IQ test I once saw:</p>
<p>What is the next number in the sequence?:
0, 2, 3, 6, 7, 1, 9, …</p>
<p>In response to the OP, incoming freshmen only got more proud of themselves on the Facebook NU2015 group after receiving that email.</p>
<p>4 and 5</p>
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<p>Very good, Cubecul! Maybe I provided too many digits?</p>
<p>What’s the pattern?</p>
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<p>That may be - I was a math major (actually MMSS) at NU, but I’m extremely intuitive in my math approach, so honestly, you give me a problem like that, and I just “see” the answer in the blink of an eye and would have to think about how I mathematically get there. </p>
<p>And, 4 and 5 for your other problem too :-)</p>
<p>I don’t see the pattern!</p>
<p>15 minute shortcut = don’t use a calculator.</p>
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<p>The question is a classic example of where out-of-the-box thinking is required. The pattern is that each digit, if spelled out in English, is shown in reverse alphabetical order.</p>