"We evaluate candidates holistically"...truth?

menloparkmom
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:01:48 +0000

most “top” colleges give much more weight to the transcript/ GPA and SAT scores than to other factors. Take a look at this survey done a few years ago by the NYTimes.

"On what basis do admissions committees anoint the chosen? The question has preoccupied generations of applicants. “There is no magic formula,” says Gila Reinstein, a Yale spokeswoman. “It’s just not an exact thing.” Nonetheless, the College Board’s annual survey of colleges and universities does ask them to rank admissions criteria. No surprise: high school academic record is consistently rated “very important,” as are standardized test scores (Harvard contends they’re only “important”). But what about all that other stuff? Institutions below admit the country’s best students: 25 percent of their freshman classes, fall 2004, scored 700 or more on the math or verbal SAT and placed in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating classes. But academics alone won’t get you in. Here’s what else matters. "

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