To go through a program like the one at MIT, you need to have the complete ability to handle it. That implies intellect, responsibilty and stability.
Why, you ask?
Because the people they turn out tend to be the kind who do big things, and anyone who washes out of a slot has wasted the time of the school AND whoever was next on the wait list.
You are not entitled to an education at MIT. You are not owed it, nor is it divine right.
And as to your emotional examples of great writers, statesmen, artists and musicians...
Not a single one of THEM went to MIT and they did just fine.
So, yes. If there was soemone who did not fit my profile for success at a school I was responsible for, then you can be assured that I would refuse them. Anything else does an injustice to all parties- including the student. Why set someone up for failure?
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timeasmymeasure
Hmmm.
Date: 2004-08-20 03:07 pm (UTC)Why, you ask?
Because the people they turn out tend to be the kind who do big things, and anyone who washes out of a slot has wasted the time of the school AND whoever was next on the wait list.
You are not entitled to an education at MIT. You are not owed it, nor is it divine right.
And as to your emotional examples of great writers, statesmen, artists and musicians...
Not a single one of THEM went to MIT and they did just fine.
So, yes. If there was soemone who did not fit my profile for success at a school I was responsible for, then you can be assured that I would refuse them. Anything else does an injustice to all parties- including the student. Why set someone up for failure?