What Are They Looking For...

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Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:43:04 +0000

All the stuff that I have read, including that yale article and your data, suggusts that if colleges look outside of your grades and academics they will look to see if you can bring anything unique to the university. I think this is true for some cc students and nontraditional students. Students will natually have very unique reasons from these situations but that is not why they are admitted.

For the average college transfer I think that anything and everything is more then your reason, unless of course the reason does something like exposing negitive character traits. Also if you can show positive character traits like the passion to meet a certin professor it matters some. But to say that they grade reasons to a scale with lower chances if they dont buy or identify with your reasons is silly.