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04-23-18 05:19 PM - Post#255678
In response to mrjames

One point that seems to be invalid to me is the analogy between one-and-dones and the likes of Gates or Zuckerberg. The latter did not plan to quit early but stumbled upon opportunities that seemed too good to pass up, and in the case of Zuckerberg discovered it as an integral part of being a student at Harvard. That's very different from accepting a student whose plan is to leave during or after completing a single year of college, with an option to come back and complete years later.

If you told the admissions office that you were planning to drop out after a year to start a company, I don't think you'd sniff an acceptance--it simply isn't a good allocation of a scarce resource (a slot in the class).

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