What Are They Looking For...

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Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:26:42 +0000

Of course there are really bad reasons or really good reasons that matter, I said that much in my last post.

Also, I dont see any compelling evidence in that thread. I think alot of people have that personal value but it is not actually in admission, as I said in my intiual post.

The quote about a compelling story is what I would expect because unique indiviuals can add to a unversity, once again I already have already stated that.

We are talking about the normal freshman applicants (except this time who are appying transfer) with differing degrees of reasons. Some because of presitige, which I think you would say is low quality, others with academic needs that cannot be met currently, a high quality reason. I am arguing that reasons dont really matter because the majority of what these people write will not play a role, and is definely not as importent as the other factors for admission.

If colleges distinquish between reasons they must benefit for doing so, better test grades get smarter students, race and location gets diversity, odd life stories adds to diversity, recs, essays and a few reasons can show positive values and drive. But what do the majority of reasons add, nothing.