Admission officers are trolling

calgirl15
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:22:46 +0000

Good stats don’t mean anything to top schools - practically everyone applying has them. Even if a person has a 4.0 UW GPA and a 2400 SAT, he/she won’t be the first applicant to have presented such credentials. So a lot of the decision comes down to the subjective factors, especially the essays and recommendations. Is this person interesting? Does he/she work well with others? Does he/she genuinely enjoy learning? What are the subjects that he/she is excited or fascinated about? All these questions can’t be answered purely by looking at objective criteria, so the admissions officers have to turn to the subjective parts of the app to differentiate between those whom they will accept and those whom they will not (even though both groups have plenty of applicants with excellent objective stats).