Matthew Huntbach (http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~mmh/) used to frequently make that point on various education newsgroups a few years ago. He'd found that success on a CS course correlated strongly with A-level maths score, and not with anything else (we find much the same with Engineering and A-level maths).
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Date: 2007-05-18 03:54 pm (UTC)