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Re: Does M.I.T./Yale Success = FIRST Dean's List Finalist/Winner?
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Originally Posted by mathking
None of our Dean's list finalists have gone to MIT or Yale but they have gone to Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State and Virginia Tech. (I think one of them applied to M.I.T. and was deferred, the other two did not apply. I believe our finalist this year is considering M.I.T., but we'll have to see about that.)
The program has not been around long enough for there to be any conclusive data about the benefit for college admissions.
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Greg... THANKS for the data!
I AGREE with you that program has not been around long enough to gauge results... so WHY does FIRST make representations like the ones contained in the document and video I pointed to in the original post?
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