tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post2731847385748377204..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: The Christy GadgetSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38141301369912295852012-10-06T06:32:13.560-04:002012-10-06T06:32:13.560-04:00I think the elided part is of some importance in g...I think the elided part is of some importance in general (though not to your comment about Caltech admissions). If you read the full text at the link you'll see that in school he received excellent grades in science and math, but didn't do well in English and history. However, the general exams were all true/false or multiple choice. He mentions that and only then states "I could David E Longhttp://twitter.com/bg2bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-73962415205007041742012-10-06T00:42:39.072-04:002012-10-06T00:42:39.072-04:00Thanks. Link for anyone else interested: http://i...Thanks. Link for anyone else interested: http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2009/05/vernon-smith-at-caltech.htmlRichard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-17935123409423036392012-10-05T23:24:11.085-04:002012-10-05T23:24:11.085-04:00Prof. Hsu posted an interview with the economist V...Prof. Hsu posted an interview with the economist Vernon Smith, a CalTech grad, who mentioned that he had had a very low high-school GPA but still managed to gain admission after he aced a bunch of courses at a local college and then took the entrance exams (and presumably did very well). He would be roughly a decade younger than Christy, I believe.<br /><br /><br />A very different era. In some Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-86265877547113845592012-10-05T17:51:40.665-04:002012-10-05T17:51:40.665-04:00@MtMoru do you know of a case where someone with t...@MtMoru do you know of a case where someone with that kind of test scores (note that if he got a uniquely distinguishable "highest score in the province" the test had a high ceiling, unlike the current SAT) failed to get an interview with Caltech? I went to an undistinguished rural non-college town public high school (which nonetheless managed to send a half dozen people to HYM from myRichard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90075423882648609952012-10-05T17:10:12.375-04:002012-10-05T17:10:12.375-04:00"Then, in the examinations at the end of grad..."Then, in the examinations at the end of grade twelve, they gave us <br />general exams — and this was given to the whole province of British <br />Columbia ... I could get top marks in anything, in that kind of exam. <br />So I got the highest marks on these exams of anyone in the province."<br /><br />And in Shitmerica such a person wouldn't even get an interview at CalTech if heMtMorunoreply@blogger.com