If I graduate from a university in the Philippines can I work with that degree in the U.S.A.?
Yes indeed. My brother is a nursing graduate in the Philippines and he works as a nurse in TX. My other brother is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate in the Philippines and he works as a Mechanical Engineer in MI. I am a Civil Engineering Graduate in the Philippines and works in one of the best Design/Build Company in the Province of Ontario. All of us 3 have a valid professional license to practice in our state / province. Hear this, if you are a graduate of a University in the US and can't even pass a State Board, then a Graduate from a Philippine University is better off if he passes the state board. I know most of the Americans / Canadians can't even get a Bachelor's Degree because of the cost associated with it. Don't be a BUM just like most of them. Good luck to you.
Can I become a power lineman with a red/green color deficiency?
I once worked with high voltage as an EE. Some of my co-workers have been color blind. At more than one company. It was usually against company policy, but it didn't seem to greatly affect their performance. Complicated wiring systems can sometimes have very complicated wiring color schemes with multiple colors and even stripes. But these tend to be banks of computerized systems, and other low or relatively low voltage situations. Even for those not color blind, it's usually easier to trace the wire than guess what it is by color. High voltage, especially the kind of very high voltage you are describing, situations are typically designed to be visually simple. Things tend to be clearly marked with multiple visual cues and simple color schemes. Typically you will see uniform conditions with simple solid (no stripes) wiring colors like red, black, white and green. But only a fool trusts his life to color clues and markings. Even if you are not color blind, you have to examine things to make sure that everything is as it should be and safe before you begin or finish work. However, if you have trouble passing the color-blindness test this may be your hurdle. Some employers will test you, some won't. Some may not care if you pass or not. Some may pass on you if you fail. However, a lot of employers will just get you to sign forms saying you are physically qualified to work as part of the hiring process. This will include being able to lift a certain amount of weight and not being color blind among other things. If you choose to keep your color blindness a secret, and many do, just make sure it stays a secret. If you ever get shocked, your employers can use your color-blindness to blame the accident on you and either deny you health benefits or even fire you. I have seen such things happen. Red/green color blindness can be tough because electricians often use green for ground and red for a hot lead (at least in the US). Confusing these can create real problems and even dangers. EEs often use situation dependent color schemes depending on type of power (DC, AC, 3-phase) and how complicated the wiring needs to be. Some schematics will list wiring colors and some will not. But as long as you trace the wires and pay attention to what you are doing, you should be OK in most situations.
Do liberals want to ban employers discriminating based on college major and grades?
There’s no consensus among liberals on this issue.Personally, I don’t like banning it would do any good. The problem is employers often have so many applicants it’s just straight impossible to interview them all, so they set up barriers like requiring college degrees or having work experience or having good credit, etc. to turn the hundreds of applicants into a manageable group of people. Banning certain barriers might end discrimination against certain demographics, but employers would just replace them with other barriers and now other demographics are being discriminated.Really the only way to end discrimination in work applicants is to create more jobs so employers can hire more and not have to be as picky.
What do top business schools look for in selecting MBA students?
So I think there's a lot of art and science in an application. So at top bschools if I were to weight from friends and very little data outside of personal experience: 30% Work Experience25% Essays 15% Interviews 15% LOR10% GMAT5% Grades From there, maybe start to think about this framework Stand out vs. Fit in. Every candidate needs to stand out from his / her peers as well as fit in to the school. So you're in silicon valley, you need to stand out. What did you do that's better or "stranger" than your peers. Few examples A poet is someone that stands out, but what can a poet do to fit in. If they're a published poet cited by the NYTimes that has passed the CFA Level 3 with a 770 GMAT - that poet is in to any school. Any school they want. If you're an investment banker then you fit in, so what can you do to stand out. So if you also started your own tech startup that was funded for more than 7 digits that does micro loans for people in Indonesia, with a 710 GMAT then you're in. Any school that you want with a possible exception of Stanford. Think of it from another perspective, they get 10,000 applications, how do you become memorable. If someone can refer to your application as, oh, the software engineer that was on America's Best Dance Crew. That's a story right there. Just think of people in cubicles and they have to shout a description of you, is it hard to become memorable? So a buddy of mine he was a prison guard supervisor. 710 GMAT. He's in at Kellogg. Another guy, he's a software engineer at Adobe. But he's black with a 700 GMAT. He's in. Probably anywhere he wants. In fact, you'd probably be hard pressed to find a black guy with a 700+ GMAT that gets rejected at any school. So why you might ask is it easier for the black guy. Because he has a different story. It's a unique story and something that we couldn't possibly understand. This has nothing to do with affirmative action, but everything to do with the fact that by being black, he has a fundamentally different story. Bschools like having people with different stories. They like the friction when they divide you up into cohorts. So think of it like that. You obviously fit in to a top Bschool. But, if your stand out element isn't really something that makes you stand out, that's the reason you got rejected.So tougher stories to get in: 1. Asian American / Indian / Chinese - any background - just too many of them. 2. Software Engineers3. Consultants4. Bankers5. Accountants