<p>Imagine this:</p>
<p>Three days after being accepted by your top choice college, Harvard’s Dean of Admissions, William Fitzsimmons, calls and asks if you would be interested in completely redesigning Harvard’s admissions policy for undergraduate students. The one caveat is that you will never be allowed to apply to Harvard as an undergraduate, but you agree to help anyway since you have already been accepted to your top choice college. Dr. Fitzsimmons says that your new admissions policy should aim to accept academically strong students, but you may also consider other factors in the admissions process. However, you should be very specific in defining a “holistic” admissions process so that the admissions officers know precisely what they are looking for in a candidate. If your plan results in a more successful student body (defined as an increase in inflation-adjusted alumni donations), you’ll earn one million dollars.</p>
<p>What’s your admissions policy?</p>
<p>Easy. I would keep it exactly the same, except add a larger preference to legacy applicants. Instead of a 30% accept rate, I’d bump it up to 40-50%, depending on how many legacies apply in the first place.</p>
<p>I’ll take my million dollars in cash please.</p>
<p>Only accept people named George. </p>
<p>I’ll take my million in dollars in Club Penguin coins please.</p>
<p>Only accept people who can and will wire $1,000,000 to TBB’s bank account.</p>
<p>Auction off the acceptance letters. </p>
<p>Make acceptance only available to those who are already wealthy and plan on choosing a statistically lucrative major. Set the bar the same regardless of race or background. </p>
<p>-get rid of legacies
-if you’re studying a lucrative major, I’ll automatically consider you
-same standards for every applicant (minimum SAT scores, the works)
-proof that you are actually capable of contributing something to the Harvard community and beyond</p>
<p>I’ll take my 1 million in diamonds</p>
<ol>
<li>Increase the # of spots for impacted majors</li>
<li>Decrease the # of spots for majors like womens studies, ethnic studies, philosophy, etc.</li>
<li>Make partying an acceptable EC</li>
<li>Get rid of the essays </li>
</ol>
<p>Make Harvard an HBCU tbh. </p>
<p>Keep SAT Subject Test Requirements, Get rid of 4 year language reccomendation, make essays longer, maybe add a couple more essays, raise the academic index required for athletes from 176 to around 190-200. Also I would require a supplemental document from a thing/subject you are very passionate about. This would make it so that only kids who are really committed to going (Not just because it’s Harvard) will apply, raising the acceptance rate so more kids who want a great education at Harvard can come. BC added an essay and I think it lost like 5,000 applications one year. Getting rid of the language recommendation just allows for kids who aren’t interested in foreign languages to explore other fields they are interested in.</p>
<p>Also I would get rid of legacy preference or at least lessen it if there is any. Though, I think it may be true that legacy applicants do tend to have a bit higher stats.</p>
<p>If some of these ideas were real i would not like to attend Harvard lol… </p>