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#1 If you are looking at two people from the same high school, and one of them has better grades, test scores, recommendations, and awards then the other; then I think you should take that person regardless of whose personality the admissions staff likes better or who told a quirky, funny story in their essay. While this may seem obvious, most top schools don't even pretend to practice this policy.
#2 Subjective evaluations of who is better are fine in the hands of the right person. I just don't have that much faith in Marilee Jones and her staff. They seem pretty flaky to me. I would rather have a scientist/mathematician making these decisions rather than people from the business school (Jones is a Sloan MBA.) If one of the professors at MIT was making these subjective decisions, I wouldn't have as much a problem with it. They know what goes into excelling at science and math at the highest level.
#3 Jones claims she is lessening the stress of high school applicants by making the objective standards less stringent. I think making the criteria more vague makes the process more stressful. I know I didn't stress out at all over my MIT application.
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