> I realize this point isn't really of general interest, but earlier you
> mentioned that the folks in the Honors Program at U-Michigan, which has an
> SAT cutoff, seemed smarter than the general student population. I went to
> Michigan, and was in the Honors Program the whole time, and this wasn't
> really my experience. I did find that classes limited to Honors students
> were *taught* at a higher level, and that those folks tended to be better
> educated (many had been to better high schools, or had been on AP tracks)
> and studied very hard. I was VERY glad to have access to those classes.
But
> many -- I'd venture to say most -- of the "smartest" people I met at
> Michigan [by smart here I mean creative, capable of saying something
> surprising or otherwise interesting, engaged with ideas outside the
> classroom, in short people you want to stay up late getting high with]
> weren't in this program. In fact, the program, vs. the many different kind
> of intelligence in the larger student population, was kind of a test tube
> display of how SAT/ACT scores do measure some things, but not others.
>
> Liza
Last post for the day: is it just my imagination, or are there a disproportionate number of past and present Umichers on this list? Charles, Justin, Liza, Carrol (I think), yours truly...
-- Luke