Matt Brueseke

@MattTG
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@cubs fan, igneous, volcanoes minerals, tectonics, wilderness, pawpaws, fish tacos, 🏊‍♂️🏝⛰🏕, Geology Professor. Views and opinions expressed are mine.
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I want to talk a little about the study showing that the wealthiest kids are much more likely to get into the Ivy-plus colleges than other students with similar grades and test scores.

Short: legacy admissions, sports (like rowing or fencing, not like basketball or football), and non-academic things (recommendations, extracurriculars) provided by expensive private high schools all contribute.

This is not a surprise.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/07/24/1189443223/affirmative-action-for-rich-kids-its-more-than-just-legacy-admissions

Some more pics, including the only fjord in the lower 48 USA #maine #geology #acadia
Things I’ve seen the last few days #maine #geology #granite #whale #Acadia #mush #xenolith
Great stories in these crystals, before they became steps #geology #mineral #crystal
@Jon6705 yeah it’s the complete opposite for sure! Though we need the rain
Nice day for science outreach @ the #kansas Science Festival! #geology #sustainability #ManhattanKs #littleapple
@Ceedave this is strikingly unaltered/not hydrated, compared to lots of other younger obsidian I’ve seen.
@Stressrelated nice to see this all, in an advert like this!
Need to get back to posting #geology here more… so here is an obsidian clast from a 16.1 million-year-old #rhyolite from Nevada (USA). Nice and fresh, found as a cobble in a creek.