<p>The only Bucknell-oriented source for this article is the email that was sent to students. Every single quote in the article comes directly from the email, except for the one where “Bucknell declined to discuss the venture”. In other words, Bucknell-sourced information in this article is completely taken only from the email. The rest of the information comes from the man who developed the website, who has an obvious vested interest in promoting his service.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s legit. But we still have no information from Bucknell as to how this will be used in evaluating students and/or whether students are strongly advised to take part in it, or whether students who don’t take part will not be penalized in any way. There was also no deadline given and given that admission answers are only weeks away - shouldn’t there be some sort of a deadline? And it still contradicts blatantly their statement that is still on their website that interviews are not part of their admissions process.</p>
<p>Bottom line - Bucknell needs to provide more information than just the mass email that was sent out. It isn’t quite fair to the students for them to have received such a request to participate in such a new/novel/unknown format, with so little depth of information, this late in the process.</p>