Out of Harvard. With a 1590 SAT & NMS. You can have a 1.5 GPA at Harvard, & that's still above almost e'yone in the US
Uh-huh. Gates, Bezos: National Merit Scholars. Musk, Page, Brin got into top-tier PhD programs. Jobs was asked to skip 2 grades. Etc etc etc https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/778253266631000064 …
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You're confusing "only at the 99th percentile, rather than 99.999th percentile" with "bad grades".
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Ditto Zuckerberg. What fraction of the US population can claim this level of grades? It's of order 0.1%.pic.twitter.com/3WohuEBVbB
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I.e, after his grades had exceeded 99% of the US population, he let them slide.
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I'm trying to imagine going back to my High School, and telling ppl Gates had "bad grades".
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Ppl would fall about laughing, even if his Harvard GPA was 1.0.
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Amusingly, the same is s'what true in research. A student who figures out promising research direction often
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lets their grades slide. They have much more interesting things to be doing...
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I'm thinking with respect to the population as a whole. Tiny fraction of ppl go to elite colleges.
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I was one of < dozen ppl from my graduating class who went to _any_ University at all...
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