Order of importance for admission?

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Here are from Yale’s comman data set (2007 - 2008):</p>

<p>Relative importance of each of the following academic and nonacademic factors in your first-time, first-year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.</p>

<p>Academic:
Field: Very important | Important | Considered | Not Considered
Rigor of HS: x | - | - | -
Class rank: x | - | - | -
GPA: x | - | - | -
SAT or CAT: x | - | - | -
Essay: x | - | - | -
Recommendation: x | - | - | -</p>

<p>Nonacademic:
Interview: - | - | x | -
ECs: x | - | - | -
Talent/ability: x | - | - | -
Character/personal: x | - | - | -
First generation: - | - | x | -
Alumni/ae relation: - | - | x | -
Geographical residence: - | - | x | -
State residency: - | - | x | -
Religious affiliation/commitment: -| -| - | x
Racial/ethnic status: - | - | x | -
Volunteer work: - | - | x | -
Work expereince: - | - | x | -
Level of applicant’s interest: - | - | x | -</p>

<p>You can see all academic related fields are very important. There are 3 very important factor for nonacademic: ECs, talent/ability, and personal character. Only one factor is not considered: religon.</p>

<p>Surprisely, none of the fileds belong to the 2nd category: important.</p>

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<p>“Only one factor is not considered: religon.”</p>

<p>lol, if only we were applying a century ago…</p>

<p>anyway, do you have a link? overall, the data is problematic because it doesn’t discriminate the importance between grades, recommendations, essays, ecs and sat, which are obviously the “very important” ones.</p>

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<p>Here is the link:</p>

<p>[Common</a> Data Set](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/oir/ComDatset.html]Common”>http://www.yale.edu/oir/ComDatset.html)</p>

<p>Please look at section C.</p>

<p>It is also interesting to check harvard’s common data set. Harvard puts almost all factors into CONSIDERED category, which provides no useful info.</p>

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<p>Great, now that Y states that it puts race & ethnicity on par with interviews, 1st gen, legacy, geog, state, volunteering, work and interest (which everyone know doesn’t count for anything), we can put all of the bickering about URMs to rest. </p>

<p>Not.</p>