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Harvard Veritas: interview with a recent graduate (anonymous) — #18

Aug 25, 2022

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Is There Something I'm Missing That Young People Know About?

01:49

Harvard: The Life Lesson You Learned

02:25

Are You a Harvard Student?

02:12

Introduction

3min

How Did You Get Admitted to Harvard?

2min

How Did You Get Into Harvard?

2min

College Application Scatter Plot - Harvard University

2min

College Admissions: Harvard vs Dartmouth

2min

I Hate Works, but It's Not the Total Zero.

3min

The Selection Process Is Not Very Strong on Cognitive Ability or Acodomic Ability?

2min

How Do Harvard Rate Unhooked Students?

3min

How to Qualify for the First Rate Scholar Catecory

2min

10.

How Did the S a T Get Dumbed Down?

3min

11.

How Would You Define the Social Milio That You Were In?

2min

12.

The Path of Least Resistance at Harvard

2min

13.

Are You Leaving Harvard?

2min

14.

What Are the Differences Between Harvard and Harvard?

3min

15.

The Difference Between a Graduate and a Grasp State

2min

16.

How to Get Close Contact With Professors

2min

17.

Is It Unusual for Professors to Talk to Undergrads?

2min

18.

The Advising System at Harvard

2min

19.

I Think It's a Little Disappointing That You Couldn't Find That Breadth at Harvard.

3min

20.

The Last Conservative in the History Department

3min

21.

Did Neil Ferguson Teach at Harvard, or Had He Already Left?

3min

22.

How to Get a Job at a Harvard School of Business

4min

23.

The Benefit of the Doubt

3min

24.

Are There Any Things Going on on Campus While You're on Campus?

2min

25.

I Think the Distribution of Cognitibility at Harvard Is a Little More Establishmenarian Than Stanford

2min

26.

Harvard: The Life Lesson You Learned

2min

27.

Are You Aware That the Sky Is Blue?

2min

28.

Harvard's Open Campus Initiative

2min

29.

Yale Is Definitely Worse Than Harvard

2min

30.

The Bell Curve, by Charles Murray

2min

31.

Where Do You Go for Unfiltered Information?

2min

32.

Is There Something I'm Missing That Young People Know About?

2min

33.

Are You a Harvard Student?

2min

34.

Is Your Hypote Empirical Hypothesis Correct?

3min

35.

The Wokism Axis at Harvard

2min

36.

I Think the Luxury Belief Concept Rob Henderson Has Has Sort of Come Up?

2min

37.

Why Didn't You Say O Two, One, Three Eight?

3min

38.

Is There a Deficit of Gay Men in the Humanities?

2min

39.

The R Score System in Quebec

3min

40.

Is It a Good Idea to Have a Quality Adjustment for a High School?

2min

41.

Theobra Package

3min

42.

University of California - Affirmative Action

3min

The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld his identity so that he can speak candidly.

Steve and his guest discuss:

0:00 Anonymous student’s academic background and admission to Harvard

21:37 Intellectual curiosity at Harvard

29:36 Academic rigor at Harvard and the difference between classes in STEM and the humanities

46:47 Access to tenured professors at Harvard

50:08 The benefits of the Harvard connection and wider pool of opportunities

58:46 Competing with off-scale students

1:00:48 Ideological climate on campus, wokeism, and controversial public speakers

1:23:11 Dating at Harvard

1:26:52 Z-scores and other metrics to add to the admissions process

Harvard Admissions and Meritocracy:

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2009/11/defining-merit.html

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-is-best-for-harvard.html

Harvard Affirmative Action Lawsuit:

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/01/supreme-court-to-take-up-harvard-unc.html

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2019/09/former-yale-law-dean-on-harvard-anti.html

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/06/harvard-office-of-institutional_21.html

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.

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