current and former 8th grader parents

GemmaV
Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:21:35 +0000

That’s pretty much what I was trying to get at, but as you can imagine, many applicants do not just fit into one “category.” They may overlap into several categories. “International,” “children of alumni,” “basket weavers,” “tuba players,” “improv actors,” “rowers,” “repeat ninth graders.” Any applicant can be one, two, all, or none of these things.

And there might not necessarily be a limit in spots for each category, but you wouldn’t want all 100 (or 50, or whatever) of your admits to all play the tuba, or else, that would be a really boring incoming class.

The fact that the selection process is so complicated is what keeps those of us in the admissions profession employed, something for which I am extremely grateful (particularly given the current global economic crisis). Thank goodness a machine can’t do my job.