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March 6, 2005 1:00 PM

Wired Magazine Needs A Fact Checker

In this month’s Wired: Start: I Got Accepted at Google! article, the authors state that “for the classes of 2001 to 2004, getting into a corporate campus was harder than graduating summa cum laude from MIT.  No wonder Google has been having so much trouble hiring lately – there IS NO SUCH THING as summa cum laude at MIT so – if they are looking for MIT summa cum laudes, they are fishing in a pond of the empty set.

Posted in: Pet Peeves

COMMENTS (1)

Good to see some schools buck the trend of feel-good grade inflation...

Fazal Majid , March 6, 2005 7:37 PM

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