Talking Mission Hill - Kevin Vs. the SAT (or Nocturnal Admissions)
Added 2020-05-29 04:01:00 +0000 UTCMission Hill hits its midway point with a Kevin-focused episode about the trials of getting into a good college—namely, Yale. When the Jolly Boys find out good grades alone won't get them into the Ivy League, they set out to break the code of the SATs in order to get a perfect score. Meanwhile, Posey's poorly worded classified ad makes the outside world see her as less of a masseuse and more of a sex worker. Will Kevin and the boys make their collegiate dreams come true? And will Andy and Posey survive their encounter with a genuine pimp? Keep your love of Captain Janeway to yourself and get ready for another great episode!
Comments
As a Canadian whose main frame of reference for the SATs is seeing them in American media, I never knew they were optional! It seemed like a forced thing that everyone has to do and a very stupid & crude way of assessing whether or not you'll be good enough to attend certain post-secondary institutions while you're still in the thick of things in high school. In Canada we don't really have any equivalent, getting into a university or college (which as far as I understand in American parlance is sort of like college and community college?) is based on a certain number of your highest grades at the time of your application and dependent on you keeping things at a certain grade average by the end of senior year. Universities do require you to take "university" and "mixed" level courses rather than "college" level ones to be considered which means that people with plans of college or going directly into work avoid the U-tier classes from day 1 and it sorta creates a hierarchy where a lot more of the trouble makers are in the C-tier courses. Likewise, as someone who just finished their MA degree in the past couple of months, there isn't really a test you take to be able to enter grad school, it's similarly based on your undergraduate grades, résumé, and quality of writing. The American system seems hella weird to me as an outsider. -- Uh, anyway, school talk aside, I really enjoyed this episode of the podcast (and show) and have been thoroughly enjoying going through Mission Hill for the first time.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2020-06-10 02:07:02 +0000 UTCWe admittedly totally missed the Pi thing even though this episode is an obvious parody. It's one of those movies that seemed like a big deal in the late '90s but is now mostly forgotten.
Bob Mackey
2020-06-04 20:30:52 +0000 UTCWasn't this based on the movie Pi? There they're looking for a pattern in the Stock Market, but the idea is the same. I'm a few years older than Bob and Henry, but i got the exact same thing, you got to school and get good grades, then you go to university and get good marks and then you just get a job. Yea, fat good that did me. Why I've been working crappy retail jobs my entire life. Though in Canada we don't have the SATs, so your marks in school are even more important
twistedmentat
2020-06-04 06:59:47 +0000 UTC
