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- From: landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu (S. Landsburg)
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- Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.205652.2493@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 20:56:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.144030.3507@ms.uky.edu> cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
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- >There are universities in the US which will take students without a
- >high-school diploma - but probably only the good ones. I would
- >imagine that it would be easier to get into Harvard than into **SU
- >without a diploma.
- >
-
- I have one sad piece of confirmatory evidence. When I taught first-year
- graduate algebra at Colorado State two years ago, I had a Chinese student
- who was one of two clear-cut "A" students out of 14 in the class. In
- the middle of the semester, a dean with nothing better to do discovered
- that her bachelor's degree from China was not technically complete, for
- reasons having to do with the events in Tienanmen Square. His initial
- response was to insist that she be sent back to China immediately. After
- much cajoling, he allowed her to finish the semester first, but insisted
- that she return after that. I can not imagine anything like this
- happening at Harvard.
- .
-