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To: Ilaine who wrote (52738)6/29/2000 4:54:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
I would recommend highly selective schools (e.g. Stanford and MIT) for 99th percentile SAT students who are committed to scientific achievement of the very highest order and who can't be satisfied with anything but the best. For a very smart kid who has never faced a serious challenge to go a second 50 university holds the promise of mediocrity. He will be smarter than most of the kids in class and most of the faculty as well. He can learn, but he will not be driven to achieve. He will tend to drift. Grear scientists and engineers must get their great ideas while they are very young. They need to bump heads against the best students and professors in the world. Wait until you bounce up against one of those 1 in a million Chinese or Indian kids. This is far more important in graduate schools. There you pick the single professor with whom you want to study. At highly selective undergraduate colleges you can get in contact with stars if you work in their labs (wash glassware, if necessary).
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