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- From: coop4y44@bnr.ca (Lorraine Galvin)
- Subject: Re: Hello
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.151655.14610@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:16:55 GMT
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- In article <53.2875.uupcb@synapse.org>, doug.hewko@synapse.org (Doug Hewko) writes:
- |> From: doug.hewko@synapse.org
- |
- |> RK.Well, I'm from Simon Fraser (SFU) and we were ranked #2 behind Waterloo. I
- |>
- |> And I take it you are a prime example of the quality of students at
- |> SFU? I hope not because even though my message spelled "Carleton" for
- |> you, you managed to still spell it incorrectly. <g>
- |>
- |> Doug
-
- Actually, my "incorrect spelling" is due to an inability to type rather than
- any spelling disability. This deficiency is due primarily to being in
- Computing Science, which appears to have a disproportionate number of the
- world's "2-finger typers" like myself. SFU excels at many things: Archeology,
- Business, Computing, Engineering, but typing is apparently not amongst them.
- (The improper usage of punctuation is purely my own, and in no way reflects the
- calibre of SFU in general :)
-
- We don't hear much about Carleton out west, except for two things:
- 1) They do journalism, apparently very well.
- 2) The entrance requirements are amongst the lowest in Canada
- We don't hear much about the results of this open-door policy and therefore have
- to draw our own, perhaps unfounded, conclusions. As a related note, SFU has
- one of the highest entrance requirements in the country, but has one of the
- highest drop-out rates as well. I'm not sure what this says about the school
- actually, but I'd be inclined to think it's not a good thing: I suppose there's
- pros and cons in any scheme (as I've already been made aware of :)
-
- -- Robb --
-