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To: skinowski who wrote (405139)1/18/2011 11:45:45 PM
From: Alan Smithee1 Recommendation  Respond to of 794111
 
According to Gladwell, the seeds to Gates' success lay in his time at Lakeside, where he was afforded thousands of hours of free programming time at a time when very few people had access to computers. Harvard really didn't play much of a role in what he went on to do in life and I suspect his parents recognized that.



To: skinowski who wrote (405139)1/19/2011 3:19:21 AM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 794111
 
drop out of Harvard

The conclusion that comes out of IQ studies and life performance is: once you get over an IQ of about 130, nobody knows.

That is why my preference for selecting College students would be to take candidates that had decent HS performance and a College test result at about that point, and then go lottery. It would be the fairer way to go.


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