Retweeted Arjun Panickssery:

This is pretty incredible. Smart education reform drastically improved Mississippi's schools.

College Admissions Doesn't Need to Be So Competitive There are only so many high-scoring students in the country

Top-20 university slots: 44K
High-scoring students: 19K

BUT these universities only admit 12K high-scoring students. Rest are for athletes, children of donors, etc.

College admissions don't need to be so competitive. Good piece by Arjun Panickssery.

arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/college-ad...

cf http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

> That's the "absent-minded professor," who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another.