Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta
“There’s this great legend about you had to take SAT twos to get into college back then. I don’t know if you still do, but I think you had to have a minimum of three.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Meta
Transcript context
…He always knew he had a great fallback plan, so it let him be risk on. So Mark graduates, he goes off to Harvard, it’s the natural choice on many fronts. Mark, of course, aces his SATs. I think he gets a 1600 on the SATs. There’s this great legend about you had to take SAT twos to get into college back then. I don’t know if you still do, but I think you had to have a minimum of three. Mark doesn’t study or prepare for them at all. He walks in the day of the test, says I’m going to take all three that I’m going to take on the same day. He gets eight hundreds on all of them. College admissions was not going to be a big deal. And his older sister, Randi, was already there at Harvard. So clearly go to Harvard if he wants.…
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