Objective or subjective admissions

TV4caster
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:35:26 +0000

Are you serious? Do you know of any good state school which does not have a place for plenty of “super high achieving kids who also have super high GPA’s?” Those kinds of kids are present at every state school (even UVA)! Just because the odd kid with perfect stats who would seem to be a perfect candidate for a school doesn’t get in, does NOT mean that there are not numerous other “perfect candidates” who DID



I never said there wasn’t a place for them, or even that there weren’t a significant number of them. I am talking about, as you said, about the “odd kid who didn’t get in”.

And like I said before, this isn’t about someone I know, or anything personal. I just found in reading the threads after decisions were announced that there were an awful lot of what seemed like arbitrary decisions; even acknowledging that a “holistic” review is subjective.