Is your kid "manufactured"?

QuantMech
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 21:11:28 +0000

If the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford (for 10 years) was frustrated about the number of “manufactured” students they were admitting, she should have talked with the Admissions office. There are a few people on CC who rhapsodize about the special insights into applicants’ psyches that admissions staffers have. Presumably, something either went wrong with the special insights, or else what the admissions staffers were looking for is not what the Dean of Freshmen wanted. 10 years is a long time for this situation to continue. Also, the Dean is just talking about it now, after leaving that role in 2012?

I agree that the entire family in question may well be American, and that calls for them to adapt to the dominant culture are misplaced. So this may have been a fine admit, and not a “manufactured” student at all, despite the reaction of the Dean of Freshmen.