Did anyone apply for Fall '07?

bigpicdad
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:10:43 +0000

First time dad here, with a senior son applying to a handful or so of the region?s better LACs being commonly discussed, including Knox? which he hasn?t visited yet but where s was accepted with modest merit $. It occurs to me after a few visits, lots of off & on campus interviews, and 4 acceptances so far, that each decision by a school is not easily analyzed in terms of statistics. My son is getting different treatment everywhere, and it seems to me that it correlates more with the tenor of the interviews (which differed from one another) and inclinations by the respective schools to react differently to various narratives present in different parts of the Common App. It seems like it might be chemistry between admissions reps and students and their narratives as much as anything. It?s my impression that more than lip service is being paid when all of these schools give the admonitions about challenging courses. I also believe that admissions offices have fixed ideas about the differences in the college preparation in different types of high school. One thing that I have concluded is that admissions are unpredictable and certainly not a cookie cutter process. It?s hard to analyze only on statistics?I think it gets subjective. (And that?s not a complaint.)

I?m glad to hear such good things about the quality of Knox. We chickened out of a trip out there last weekend because of weather.