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Confession: I took the SATs in Germany in 11th grade. I didnβt prepare at all, took it cold. I scored a 1380, 690 verbal 690 math. I was so mortified by getting what I regarded as a very low score I have since then always just said it was much lower, just to show I donβt care.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) April 21, 2022
Just to give you an idea on the kind of person he is Jason is the problem with academia
Honestly just go through his twitter he is flipping out on Wesley Yang who is some rightwing guy with a substack. He has multiple threads bitching about this guy I have never heard of.
https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1517905612662837249
https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1517954902726692864
This is my favorite response about him. The zoomers might not know but SNL used to be funny : 
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What a fricking cute twink lol
He obviously did care, that's a shit score even for a second tier Ivy, yet alone Yale
Obviously he Connectionsmaxxxed and now he will narcissismaxxx while clearly being insecure about the fact he's never had to work for anything in his life
People like him feel entitled to do something great because they're born into an environment where you're around other people who do genuinely great things, but has no ability to self reflect and do the needful to make himself one of them
Tl;dr failson
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The only people who care about SATs are people who never left academia.
Any Ivy leaguer who got an actual job finds themselves immediately surrounded by people who went to state schools and are just as good as they are. It beats the mentality out of them.
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Me as the b-word who didn't even finish college doing better than all my fancy college grad coworkers
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You're either in software or work with people who catastrophically failed to make use of their ivy time.
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porque no los dos?
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Inclusive or.
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What's so special about software and ivy?
I'm not a burger and don't work in IT
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Software is famously an industry you can make it in with no credentials because it's possible to prove yourself and someone with substantial talent and no credentials is so much better than someone with substantial credentials and no talent that traditional ivy league gatekeeping doesn't work. Ivy league credentials are good for fields where networking is paramount like business and to a degree law. But you have to actually network for that effect. So if you're in business or law working with someone from an ivy background and you don't have one yourself they pretty much squandered the only thing you get out of ivy schools.
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Alright, thanks for the explanation
Based singature btw
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I think the SAT thing is probably a symptom of a wider insecurity he has about his lack of stature even within the Ivy tower. Being a professor and still talking about a test you took in high school Is pathetic. Like no one cares lol
SATs are correlated with IQ, IIRC the r^2 has gone down over time but this dude looks old af. He got a shit score, is probably above average intelligence but not at the level expected for people in those schools.
Like you said, there are state school kids just as intelligent. Ivy League is about class, connections, and holistics, more so than intelligence.
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Short kings rise up
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You can try
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6 or below, you must go.
Rope or dilate are your only options
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Under six feet? HRT
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i briefly worked with academic types and I don't think I heard a single one ever refer to their SAT score, and they were some smart people. It is the equivalent of talking about how awesome you were at high school football when you're feeling insecure next to an NFL player
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Yeah that was kind of the point I was tryna make but you explained it better. SAT is just for undergrad admissions. But continuing to cope about it might be reflective of a wider insecurity - and looking at this dudes Twitter he clearly doesn't belong at Yale
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So in other words he's perfect for Yale
Also I got a 1380, it's a good score dude shut up
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The bottom 25th percentile for Cornell (lol) is 1420.
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