<p>here’s an answer to the question of what the admissions officers look for – from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
Leslie Braat’s entry on the obieblog site:
[Oberlin</a> Blogs | Blog Entry: “Choosing our future Obies”](<a href=“http://blogs.oberlin.edu/applying/selection_process/choosing_our_fu.shtml#comments]Oberlin”>http://blogs.oberlin.edu/applying/selection_process/choosing_our_fu.shtml#comments)</p>