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We agree with the author that a quantitative analysis of the predictive nature of the metrics used in graduate student admissions is a worthy pursuit and value the sincere intentions behind the UCSF Tetrad study. However, these types of analyses would benefit from the same rigorous approaches that we employ in our other research endeavors. As UCSF Tetrad graduates with diverse careers in academia, medicine, industry, and publishing, we hope that the definition of success in graduate school can be as thoughtfully and scientifically examined as the measurements used to select the next young people to follow in our footsteps.
我们赞同作者的观点，即对研究生招生中所使用指标的预测性质进行定量分析是一项值得追求的工作，并且重视加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）四分体研究背后的真诚意图。然而，这类分析将受益于我们在其他研究工作中所采用的同样严谨的方法。作为在学术界、医学、工业界和出版界有着不同职业发展的UCSF四分体研究毕业生，我们希望能够像审视用于挑选下一代追随我们脚步的年轻人的衡量标准一样，经过深思熟虑并科学地考察研究生阶段成功的定义。
