| "JESUS!!! I am floored!! How the hell did I get in with such amazing competition? I just wanted to say that even waitlisted people have amazing resumes and that admission must really be one hell of a crapshoot!"
Not a crapshoot at all. Smith has made it very clear that they have heavily de-emphasized test scores as 1) they could have find no relationship between them and academic success once there, and 2) mitigated against the college's history commitment to economic diversity. So take out the test scores, and imagine the college trying to do exactly what they say they are trying to do, choose students who are "Heady, nervy, and intellectually exciting", and find there is no crapshoot at all. |