We are honored to announce our $20M Series A led by @insightpartners . Given the backdrop of ongoing worldwide events creating heartache and turmoil, our collective efforts to support mental wellness have never been more critical.
It does show that (1) Pell Grant (lower income) 68% grad rate, (2) first gen 66%, (3) underrepresented groups 63% are lower than the overall overage of 82% graduation rate over 4 years.
The greatest friction seems to be in intro STEM courses b/c their high schools lacked advanced coursework like those offered at Lowell.
It does show, students from low income, who were able to take AP Calculus BC, AP Physics, and college level science classes transition smoothly.
The overall average may be lower but the top students with near perfect GPAs and 30+ admits again doesn’t sound that unreasonable. Edison (fresno) and Channel Islands (oxnard) also share similar aberration ~40% accept but again from a 80 to 90 person applicants pool. Other unfunded schools don’t have counselors, but these 3 seem to have programs with intensive 1-1 coaching to present highly polished applications despite the school overall lacking comparative resources.
Creating outrage if there’s only a handful who apply from Mission seems disingenuous as to the driver for placements. Hasan Minaj had a set where he described legacy for Harvard and Stanford as holding the most seats. Berkeley and MIT don’t, but the number of applicants relative to seats for all elite schools has 4-5X in the last two decades given the now obvious economic benefit of attending these institutions.
It looks like this info is public: 500 out of 688 Lowell students applied to Berkeley vs. 80 out of 277. Lowell still has 2x as many admits as Mission: 69-75 vs. 34-39. It looks like the near perfect GPAs at Mission apply which seems reasonable. Mission isn’t able due to funding to offer as many AP courses as Lowell, 30 vs less than 10.
These are very small numbers relative to seats available which is 9000. If there was a primary bias driver, it is likely the hidden factor of whoever can manufacture “merit” early in life.
It is surprising/not surprising that economic inequality continues to drive a majority of these disproportionate economic outcomes.
Hats off to doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu in Beijing, China, who did this fascinating and smart interview with Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday, originally posted to Bilibili.
A great listen/watch.
@TANANY_VC I remember seeing a similar model a few years ago. Great idea on paper, but once you start turning family members into part of the clinical workforce, healthcare regulation catches up quick
@NYCMayor Been trying to pay for Corp fees for the last 3 weeks, but the website and phone for Department of Taxation and Finance are surprisingly difficult to take my money. Deep phone trees and website asking for a lot of information to make a quick payment. Still stuck unable to pay…
Excited to share the next iteration: https://t.co/DWvMXk4fkv
Where we move away from retro metrics dashboards to more actionable interactive guidance and calendar enabling workflows.
Really got into this last night and before I knew it, it was 6am 😳
Reimagining all the health tracking apps into something more proactive and in tune with mental health especially with Google's latest $99 Air announcement
https://t.co/0pqTvpxmfB
@dieworkwear Maybe old-timey, but we use talcum powder, let it rest overnight and then brush it off and wash like normal. Sometimes you need to do it twice, something his family had shared over generations.