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Well, since the entrance exam would likely be geared toward people graduating high school, wouldn't the entrance questions have to be at that level of education
by irinotecan 16y ago
Well, since the entrance exam would likely be geared toward people graduating high school, wouldn't the entrance questions have to be at that level of educational experience?
- endtime 16y agoFor a normal university, yes. Not for one of the foremost technical institutions in the entire world.
- hugs 16y agoIn 1869, was MIT a normal university, or one of the foremost technical institutions in the entire world?
- Travis 16y agoConsidering construction finished just 3 years before this exam was published, and the charter was formalized just 10 years before, I would say that MIT (known as Boston Tech from 1866-1916) was not among the foremost technical institutions. At the time. From the wiki page, it seems like it was actually one of the first technical unis around: "a new form of higher education to address the challenges posed by rapid advances in science and technology in the mid-19th century that classic institutions were ill-prepared to deal with." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology#Vision_and_mission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Massachusetts_In...)