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1. Aloisi+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-04 21:21:39
8.3% of Americans 18-34yo have a disability according to the Census department.

Stanford's rate is 4.3x higher than that.

Add in that half of all students who claim a disability have no record of a diagnosis or disability classification prior to beginning college, all the reports of rampant cheating in school, the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal where some parents helped their kid fake disabilities to get ahead, and even people here who seem to think it's ok to defraud the system to get ahead?

I think perhaps elite schools need a better way to gauge an applicant's ethics to deny them entry since the last thing the world needs is more unethical people in positions of power.

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2. jeffbe+56[view] [source] 2025-12-04 21:54:40
>>Aloisi+(OP)
> elite schools need a better way to gauge an applicant's ethics

You are perhaps mistaking which side of the line Stanford would select for. It is a school that produces and prefers sociopaths. Its engineering curriculum, almost uniquely among universities, has no requirement for an ethics course. You can fulfill Stanford's "Technology in Society" requirement by taking a course where you network with VCs for a semester. It is a factory for making jerks.

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