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- Banhus, on 04/26/2009, -19/+745asian...anyone surprised?
- danconia, on 04/26/2009, -22/+528Boy is she going to make a great cook and homemaker some day!
- amr678, on 04/26/2009, -26/+365"She doesn't think she studied alot.."
I hate when people say that, she probably studied every night for hours on end and now that it's paid off she's trying to make it sound like it was nothing. Regardless it's quite a feat and I hope it isn't a scam. - BBE1965, on 04/26/2009, -5/+305By the time she is 30. Willa Chen is a woman.
- gu0d, on 04/26/2009, -5/+260why am i still awake
- f4nt0m4s, on 04/26/2009, -12/+254Her parents locked her in a room and beat those grades out of her!
"You get good grade now!"
I know it sounds racist but meh, I have a lot of Asian friends and the parents really do bring the pressure. Seems like there is a lot of social pressure to exceed as a student in the Asian community. - gu0d, on 04/26/2009, -8/+185im naked
- xykorix, on 04/26/2009, -5/+161at least she got on Digg. what a reward.
- Asianwaste, on 04/26/2009, -2/+156Once I entered death, I quickly realized nearly everything I did in life was completely worthless.
Once I got reincarnated into a cow, I quickly realized that I forgot everything that was completely worthless and had a sudden urge to eat grass and stare dully into to the furthest horizon. So I did and it all seemed worthwhile.
The End. - FireStrife, on 04/26/2009, -2/+155Being Asian, I don't find offense to the joke, because mainly it is true to an extent.
- Asianwaste, on 04/26/2009, -20/+168The only thing the ACT and SAT ever tests is how well you can take the ACT and SAT. There is absolutely no practical value to it at all. If she applied all that effort in remembering that phone book of a study guide to a science, craft, or skill, she would be a master outclassing professionals over twice her age.
As for the bottom line, it's here:
"The College Board, made up of 5,000 schools, administers the SAT and PSAT but says it doesn't track statistics on whether anyone has scored perfectly on both of its tests. "
All she got was her name in the newspapers. Didn't help her get into Yale any more than the usual efforts from the head of the class. - tnarugby, on 04/26/2009, -19/+162Im a Senior at this school and let me be the first to say that she is a bitch. If I have to hear her brag one more time, I will go crazy.
Sure shes smart, but zero social skills. Not to mention shes ugly. - f4nt0m4s, on 04/26/2009, -13/+134My other favorite are the kids who say, "Oh man that test was so hard, I think I failed," but they somehow get like a 96% on every test. And then they go argue with the teacher over the other 4%. Who argues about getting a better A, honestly!
- ryanhayn, on 04/26/2009, -1/+118haha.. novenator didn't read the article.
- BooLag, on 04/26/2009, -0/+113Once I entered grad school, I quickly realized nearly everything I did while in college was completely worthless.
Once I got a job, I quickly realized nearly everything I did while in grad school was completely worthless.
Etc. - inactive, on 04/26/2009, -3/+94Female? Pics or it didn't happen.
Male?...
...
...Pics or it didn't happen
(hey, at least you can't call me sexist) - Asianwaste, on 04/26/2009, -1/+89and how much money your dad has.
- Rivetgeek, on 04/26/2009, -4/+89food is to sandwich, as kitchen is to _______
- Asianwaste, on 04/26/2009, -3/+87I'LL break the ice:
Nope! - LimeParrot, on 04/26/2009, -2/+86^ The feminist movement approves of this message.
- TBBucs, on 04/26/2009, -0/+80A lot of intelligent people don't study. People like that show up to class every day, take notes, and do homework. That's all the rehearsal of the material they need to get it down.
- IFEice, on 04/26/2009, -2/+80Well in University, that 4 percent difference would mean a class rank of 1 or a rank of 5.
- whatit, on 04/26/2009, -0/+78I'll break the rice
Fixed. - Ragzouken, on 04/26/2009, -7/+84People who want to understand their mistakes in hope of overcoming them?
- gilbes, on 04/26/2009, -2/+78The ACT reading comprehension section has always baffled me. Read a page ot text, then answer 5 basic questions about that page in 20 minutes (that is a bit of an exaggeration, but not much).
It seems so basic, so easy. But then one can read the comments on digg and understand that even when self motivated, the average person is not able to understand what they have just read.
It is really ***** scary when you realize so many people put so much faith in text they have "read". - BooLag, on 04/26/2009, -10/+83"You get good grade now!"
Racist or not that was hilarious... - DefaultGen, on 04/26/2009, -0/+72Once I entered college, I quickly realized nearly everything I did while in high school was completely worthless. At least for me, no the extracurriculars did not count.
- IFEice, on 04/26/2009, -2/+73Nah, being Asian, I don't find it racist at all, mostly because well, I believe that white parents, especially American white parents, need to participate more in their children's education.
- proteus12, on 04/26/2009, -2/+72This is for the kids still in high school.
As someone who's been out of college for a few years and a successful tech entrepreneur, I'm here you tell you that SAT scores and high school/college GPAs mean jack ***** in the real world. That is, unless you just want to aim low, graduate, and work for some ***** mega-corporation as a slave drone.
Success is all about your social networking skills, ambition, and determination.
(This is coming from some random asian dude had a 4.0 in college. Anyone can learn to take tests. It's useless outside of school.) - BA88, on 04/26/2009, -4/+71I bet she makes a tasty sammich
- novenator, on 04/26/2009, -73/+140This kid may not the be coolest in school, but by the time he is 30, he'll be well beyond his peers.
- badenglishihave, on 04/26/2009, -7/+70My friend got a 1550/1600 on the old SAT. His GPA in college as a mechanical engineer was 2.13/4.00.
Saying the SAT is a measure of future success = prediction fail. - xykorix, on 04/26/2009, -3/+66and who you sleep with
- DRT23, on 04/26/2009, -16/+74meh, it's the extracurriculars that really count.
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -2/+58Just learn things she doesn't know, and talk about them near her. Trust me. It will piss her off.
- Rivetgeek, on 04/26/2009, -2/+58Apparently none of you have ever met Asian parents. Scholastic achievement in an Asian household is basically drilled into your head from the time you can talk. Getting a B+ gets you the "tsch" sound (some of you know what im talking about)
- ngb5012, on 04/26/2009, -3/+59creeper alert!
- jrburkh, on 04/26/2009, -9/+64A sample of one = generalization fail
- barbapapa78, on 04/26/2009, -1/+55Is this her:
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009 ... - NathanielJ, on 04/26/2009, -1/+52House? Lumber? Yeah, lumber.
*circles lumber* - EnderMB, on 04/26/2009, -12/+62It's clear from just reading this article that this isn't just of her own doing. A participant of the Math Olympiad, a fan of jazz? I'm almost positive that this girl was 'forced' into long revision sessions and prepped outside of a schooling environment. While her achievement is obviously great I hope it doesn't come at the expense of a happy childhood or necessary social interaction. Good grades and a place in a top university should not define a person, and when they do it often leads to an empty and depressing life.
- novenator, on 04/26/2009, -3/+53my bad. She.
- bwkriege, on 04/26/2009, -3/+53If you really did ace the PSAT and then drop out of high school then you are a dumb ass
- KublaiKhan, on 04/26/2009, -5/+54I don't necessarily disagree that standardized test results are overrated. However, it's not like she "applied all that effort" like you say. She says she didn't study very much for it. So, I don't figure that she devoted days and days to preparing for the test; rather, she just took it well.
One reason I say this is because, in my experience and observations, the people who do the very very best on standardized tests aren't the ones killing themselves trying to prepare for it. I know that when I took the test in high school, you had the kids who were enrolled in all kinds of prep courses, and who actually sat down with a study guide and pored over the thing, and they only scored mediocre. Not poor, but not exceptional. But then you had the kids who just "got it," who didn't have to look at a single practice question but still did very well. I happened to be one of them - I didn't study for it a single hour, but I scored 1500, the second highest in my class. The girl who scored highest didn't prepare, either.
(And I don't mean this to be some kind of show-offy "look how smart I am!" thing...I'm just trying to present a credible example.) - HurricaneDC, on 04/26/2009, -1/+48Glad I didn't have a dad like yours slaystench.
- xykorix, on 04/26/2009, -1/+48doing a SAT practice test?
- f4nt0m4s, on 04/26/2009, -5/+52Eh, I did better than a lot of my Engineer friends on the ACT but I'm a lazy piece of ***** who likes to skip class and study the night before so I don't do as well in school. I think standardized tests are a fairly flawed litmus test for intelligence, there are a lot of factors that go into being "smart:" work ethic, ability to socialize, reasoning skills, and yeah math, reading, english and science help too....
Anyway props to this girl for rocking her standardized tests, she'll probably get into Harvard or MIT and be guaranteed a kick ass job in the future.
Standardized tests = big deal for High School kids
After you graduate -> no one gives a ***** what you got on your ACT - Rocco03, on 04/26/2009, -1/+47But can she do this ?
* Moving left hand clockwise while moving left foot counterclockwise * - iamr00t, on 04/26/2009, -7/+50"There is absolutely no practical value to it at all."
I'd call getting into a good college "practical value." - VyRuZ, on 04/26/2009, -3/+45You lawyer yet?
Talk to me when you lawyer! -
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