<p>Tetus…not sure what planet you live on, but if you think hiring today is done on a strictly empirical basis, you are woefully out of touch with reality. Ask any head hunter who searches for any senior executive and I can GUARANTEE you that he or she will, to paraphrase you, use fuzzy logic, nuance, institutional and cultural necessities for [estimating whether the applicant will] get along and go along to arrive at societally [or business based or school based] optimal outcomes. By your way of thinking, which is a nice characterization, schools wouldn’t need interviews. They’d admit on empirical evidence only. </p>
<p>Ask ANY AO at any decent boarding school and they will tell you they could fill their classes with the empirically and statistically well endowed, but don’t…because then the School would be a miserable place full misFITS.</p>