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georgeburdell on May 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The language brain matters more for programming th...

The GRE math bar for excellence was quite low and so a perfect score was only the 92nd percentile or so. It’s not surprising that other metrics correlated better with success

jp57 on May 2, 2025 | [–]

Sure, but also, if you can't read and write well, you're going to struggle in a PhD, because that's really a lot of what you have to do.

beambot on May 2, 2025 | [–]

Putnam exam score might be more predictive?

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