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A machine-learning model would be fed historical admissions data, including candidates’ family background and academic achievement, and noncognitive skills such as grit and resilience, along with outcomes of past admission decisions.

His research illuminated the differences between cognitive memory — which involves specific information, such as a phone number, and discrete events like a birthday party — and noncognitive memory, which forms the foundation of habits and skills like making a daily commute or playing a musical instrument.

“Poetry isn’t truth-laden. I think most people see it as playing with language, and people accept it for that and love it for that, because it allows us to connect in noncognitive ways.”

Even if a student does not major in computer science, universities provide an environment to cultivate the skills needed to excel in IT jobs, which demand other interpersonal and noncognitive skills.

Second, we must closely examine noncognitive factors such as motivations, emotions and stresses in order to understand this memory system.