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Re: What makes you weird?

Gabriel Weinberg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:03:48 -0000

INTJ. Close though :). I was INTP in high school and then changed somewhere in there.

Re: What makes you weird?

Seralathan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:20:12 -0000

I remember seeing some where that you are an INFJ. In most of the things I am too close to weirdness ( not a dad yet)

Re: What makes you weird?

Noah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:02:35 -0000

Haha, sounds good. What a nice Monday diversion...

Re: What makes you weird?

Gabriel Weinberg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:07:22 -0000

Oh wow, I just *assumed* that the enrollment # meant for the incoming classes. I should have known better :). So yeah, it should be 1/4 of that, which I just made it.

It's unclear to me what the overlap should be. I agree probably half of the top-10 undergrads go onto grad, but I'm not sure what % they account for grad school enrollments. At MIT, most of the grad students I met came from other places. Nevertheless, I'll reduce it a bit more. Now it is at 3%.

Re: What makes you weird?

Noah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:50:44 -0000

Hm, interesting point, as probably historically top-10 schools accounted for a higher percentage of students than they do now. I think that more than 1/6 of grad students at top-10 schools were undergrads at top-10 schools -- I'd guess more than half, intuitively. There is a larger concern, though. That 138k is the number of students enrolled in any year at a top-10 school. Most students spend 4+ years (particularly if they are undergrads who go on to grad school at a top-10 school), so you are at least 4x high, I think.

Re: What makes you weird?

Gabriel Weinberg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:32:03 -0000

I did not :)

Re: What makes you weird?

Gabriel Weinberg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:09 -0000

Here's how I arrived at the 15%. Sum up the enrollments #s at http://colleges.usnews.rank... and you get 138K, i.e your number. But then you have to say anyone who has ever gone to those schools, so I multiplied it by 50 for 50 years. I did 50 instead of say 60 because over the overlap of people who to undergrad and grad both at top schools, like me. That gives you 7M. 27% of US population > 25 who wen to college is 195M*.27 =~ 53M. 7/53 =~ 13%. And then I rounded up to 15% for good measure.

Re: What makes you weird?

Jonathan Tran — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:05:08 -0000

How do you discover what makes you weird? Or rather, how could I?

Re: What makes you weird?

Noah — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:36:03 -0000

I think that far fewer than 15% of school goers go to a top-10 school. For one, that would imply that there are only 60ish other schools of the same size in the country -- there are probably that many state schools (counting different campuses of course) alone.

Moreover, the Census says there are about 18 million people enrolled in a college or university, whereas there are only 137,685 people in the top 10 schools (by my count). That is about 0.76%, I think.

Interesting post, though. I would have guessed more than 27% of people had a bachelor's.

Re: What makes you weird?

Prakash S — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:27:39 -0000

Seriously? You didn't get a after school? Is it because you didn't send your resume to any company? :-)