It's a private institution. So long as it doesn't accept public money or break any discrimination laws, it should be allowed to keep its admission process private. Does anyone honestly think George bush was admitted because of his grades? Let's find something meaningful to be outraged about. We are never going to win this one and it's not worth fighting.

Financial aid (FAFSA) is a federal program (meaning public tax dollars are used to keep it running) that channels a lot of money to all schools, including the Ivy League.

I'd argue in a court of law that assistance to their student body should be cut immediately if they don't open up their record and policy books. We can proceed from there.

Congratulations on getting up to bat and giving it your all. Consider the loss tuition.

It's definitely not solved from a technical perspective but it's really hard to compete in a business perspective. The market wants good fast search. If you come up with great fast search, it's still hard. The only opportunity I see from the business perspective is to challenge the visual paradigm. Having said that, there are tons of opportunities from the academic perspective such as inferring context, letting users control context, etc.

I think they are solving the wrong problem. It's not the chair it's the space between them.

The space between chairs is not going to increase. It will remain at the narrowest flyers are willing to endure for cheaper flights. If the seat designer can claim some extra space, they will be used to cram more rows. That may lead to cheaper flights, but not more legroom in economy class.

Always be looking for leads.

Thanks for sharing. This is a great little project.

Thanks! :)

What a neat story. I read the whole article, thanks for sharing.

I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.

>I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.

I would add a further element of uncertainty, that applies not specifically to business schools only but to a number of schools/universities.

The professors/dean/etc. may control what is taught at the university, but rarely they can control what the students actiually learn.

If the student perceives the degree as a mere requirement for entry into a career, he/she will not study to learn, he/she will study to pass the exams, which is not at all the same thing and learn and participate as little as possible.

If this is the case, there is no real incentive to teach "better" or teach "more", and what is taught little by little starts diverging from what the industry expects from a graduate, reinforcing the feeling (IMHO correct nowadays) that the degree is just a sort of badge to allow the entry to the club.

The job market however insists on asking these qualificatons even for jobs where they make no sense whatsoever, fueling this perverse mechanism.

This is flimsy.

Rails. It's minutes to build a functioning CRUD.