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When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

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The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Changed College Criticism Dreams Freud Interpretation Most Opinion Read Text Which

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By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.

~Elif Batuman

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When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said I wanted to pursue my dream of acting. At the end of my high school career, they quit their jobs, and we moved out to California on a leap of faith.

~Elijah Kelley

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The fact is that the College Board's products - the SAT, other standardized tests, the accompanying strategy guides - are sold at far higher than the cost to make them.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Board College Cost Fact Far Guides Higher Make Other Products Sat Sold Standardized Strategy Tests Than Them

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What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Admission Back College Committee Could Does Egalitarian Goes Got Idea Money No Idea Old Points Pool Sat School Score Shifting Student Sudden Toward Try Up Year

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Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.

~Eliot Schrefer

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The College Board is officially a non-profit. But all that means is that it doesn't have shareholders and that their financial accountings must be available to the public; it certainly doesn't mean that they're not also into making money.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Also Available Board Certainly College Financial Making Making Money Mean Means Money Must Officially Public Shareholders

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The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should - it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

~Eliot Schrefer

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The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.

~Eliot Schrefer

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