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Is XO more impressed by a charismatic articulate Rhodes Scholar or

a socially awkward loser who won a gold medal at IMO?
chrome exciting theatre
  05/20/18
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Titillating sepia filthpig
  05/20/18
LAS holdings
Titillating sepia filthpig
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Titillating sepia filthpig
  05/20/18
latter
Dead legal warrant fat ankles
  05/20/18
Flame?
chrome exciting theatre
  05/20/18
this forum has always respected RAW INTELLECTUAL HORSEPOWER ...
Dead legal warrant fat ankles
  05/20/18
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Razzmatazz impertinent corner
  05/21/18
No not flame at all - this is an example of a Rhodes Scholar...
Cerebral site rigor
  05/21/18
no way someone like this even gets shortlisted 20 years ago
Self-absorbed amethyst nibblets garrison
  05/21/18
Hi pensive!
know-it-all nighttime weed whacker
  05/20/18
what about the guy who bought eth at $6.00
Lavender adventurous stage
  05/20/18
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Maize church building marketing idea
  05/21/18
The latter - Most Rhodes Scholars aren't prestigious anymore...
yellow 180 stead stock car
  05/20/18
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Razzmatazz impertinent corner
  05/21/18
the rhodes has lost most of its prestige after SJWs took it ...
nudist concupiscible rehab
  05/20/18
the rhodes has lost most of its prestige after the rhodes br...
Multi-colored useless brakes
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chrome exciting theatre
  05/20/18
former. rhodes scholar will do something with his life, even...
sooty internet-worthy newt
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chrome exciting theatre
  05/20/18
Depends what we mean by "impressed" - because the ...
Cerebral site rigor
  05/21/18
latter by far
Bateful mint hominid idiot
  05/20/18
why?
Talented stage giraffe
  05/21/18
Rhodes scholar has become really really devalued - just look...
yellow 180 stead stock car
  05/21/18
Is IMO gold actually tougher to achieve?
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  05/21/18
Only a very small number of people have the ability to ever ...
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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:28 PM
Author: chrome exciting theatre

a socially awkward loser who won a gold medal at IMO?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092001)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:46 PM
Author: Titillating sepia filthpig

stonewater capital

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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:47 PM
Author: Titillating sepia filthpig

LAS holdings

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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:47 PM
Author: Titillating sepia filthpig

renthop.com

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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:29 PM
Author: Dead legal warrant fat ankles

latter

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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:30 PM
Author: chrome exciting theatre

Flame?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092017)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: Dead legal warrant fat ankles

this forum has always respected RAW INTELLECTUAL HORSEPOWER above everything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092024)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: Razzmatazz impertinent corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094541)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 1:02 AM
Author: Cerebral site rigor

No not flame at all - this is an example of a Rhodes Scholar winner from this year:

Thamara V. Jean, Brooklyn, is a senior at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College of

the City University of New York, where she is Hunter’s first Rhodes Scholar. She majors in

Political Science and Media Analysis and Criticism. She completed her senior thesis in her

junior year on the Black Lives Matter movement which was subsequently published in The

Journal of Politics and Society. She followed this with research in the Harvard African-American

Studies Department on black nationalism in the 1960s. Thamara is especially interested in the

dialectic between Afro-pessimism and Black optimism and how that shapes African-American

political thought. Her interest as a social activist is to change destructive societal narratives

and philosophical traditions that bring about barriers rather than common understanding.

Depends on what you mean by "respect" - but in terms of intellect the latter is far more respectful than majoring in PoliSci and Media analysis and criticism. Obviously IMO winners will be more socially awkward on average - but I know several people like this and they aren't as bad as XO thinks. There are far more career opportunities open to the IMO winner - and undoubtedly a good number of the IMO people could do what the Rhodes students do, but basically zero or only on very rare occasions could the rhodes students do what the IMO ppl do - and I'm not even talking about the IMO challenge I mean even keep up with the kind of coursework the IMO students take in college.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094578)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 1:08 AM
Author: Self-absorbed amethyst nibblets garrison

no way someone like this even gets shortlisted 20 years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094598)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: know-it-all nighttime weed whacker

Hi pensive!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36093562)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:29 PM
Author: Lavender adventurous stage

what about the guy who bought eth at $6.00

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092013)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 2:08 AM
Author: Maize church building marketing idea



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:30 PM
Author: yellow 180 stead stock car

The latter - Most Rhodes Scholars aren't prestigious anymore for the most part, and are really kind of a shitlib joke now if you look at their bios. I think I was more prestigious than some of these people.

Typical examples:

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/community/list-of-rhodes-scholars/scholars/rhodes-scholars-class-of-2018/nikita-arora/

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/community/list-of-rhodes-scholars/scholars/rhodes-scholars-class-of-2018/camille-borders/

The pure STEM ones are still prestigious though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092018)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:42 AM
Author: Razzmatazz impertinent corner

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094536)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:30 PM
Author: nudist concupiscible rehab

the rhodes has lost most of its prestige after SJWs took it over a while ago. look at rhodes profiles from the past decade and be amazed at how many of the "scholars" were rewarded for unremarkable shitlib "activism"/nonsense, for being gay, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092021)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:31 PM
Author: Multi-colored useless brakes

the rhodes has lost most of its prestige after the rhodes bros

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092031)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:43 PM
Author: chrome exciting theatre



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Date: May 20th, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: sooty internet-worthy newt

former. rhodes scholar will do something with his life, even if it's some shitlib project. imo guy will lose his virginity at 37 and do abstract math problems as an obscure math professor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092126)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 8:35 PM
Author: chrome exciting theatre



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Date: May 21st, 2018 1:07 AM
Author: Cerebral site rigor

Depends what we mean by "impressed" - because the IMO people will hold top jobs in academia, places like NASA / los alamos / NSA, hedge funds / tech etc.

Meanwhile if you look at this year's Rhodes students it's like 75% bullshit like race criticism or media studies.

Sure there will be some charismatic bros who go on to hold great leadership positions - that may be more enviable, but not more impressive IMO. The kind of computing power the IMO kids have is far more impressive to me, but their lives may not be more enviable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094594)



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Date: May 20th, 2018 8:38 PM
Author: Bateful mint hominid idiot

latter by far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36092811)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:26 AM
Author: Talented stage giraffe

why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094482)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:31 AM
Author: yellow 180 stead stock car

Rhodes scholar has become really really devalued - just look at these people - they're not the Bill Clinton Chads of yore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094508)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:44 AM
Author: Talented stage giraffe

Is IMO gold actually tougher to achieve?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094546)



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Date: May 21st, 2018 12:46 AM
Author: yellow 180 stead stock car

Only a very small number of people have the ability to ever achieve an IMO gold no matter what.

Any smart, savvy college student (especially a URM) has a reasonable chance at striving their way to a Rhodes if they put their mind to it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3982287&forum_id=2#36094554)