I'm curious if the author of the article really knows the reason for non-admission was not having a degree. People may have been worried that admitting a 17yo into a program normally consisting of adults typically at least 5 years older would present lots of problems.

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The US government will spend about twice as much on Argentine pesos this year as funding basic scientific research through the NSF.

There needs to be a separate Stack Overflow just for my stupid questions.

Well, here's a first for me: a former masters student of mine at Harvard wants to get her PhD, but b/c of funding cuts and resulting cuts in PhD slots in the U.S., she's applying to...Tsinghua University for her PhD. Wow