Replies to post #283224 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Dale C]

Yes it should be merit based and color blind.

[fuagf]

ForReal - You’re not going to get accepted into a top university on merit alone

December 14, 2017 1.21pm AEDT

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Elite private universities have made clear time and again that their admissions decisions are made through a holistic decision-making process that involves a series of discussions among the admissions team. This means, for example, Harvard rejects 1 in 4 students with perfect SAT scores. The University of Pennsylvania and Duke University reject three out of five high school valedictorians. Despite universities like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Stanford having closely aligned admissions criteria and similar rates of admission, just because an applicant gets into one school does not mean the applicant will get into another. That’s why it makes headlines when a student is reported to have gained admission to all the Ivies. This is a rare, unexpected event.

What a holistic approach entails

With links - https://theconversation.com/youre-not-going-to-get-accepted-into-a-top-university-on-merit-alone-87985

ForReal, points taken. And the reverse discrimination against Asians as mentioned in this post?

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=141978969

Are you as set on saying no to that too? Is your position admission on test scores only, totally excluding, all else
mentioned in the article above. Test scores only. Then we could to see maybe some white complaints down the tube.

I'm thinking Trump's moves are actually, in part at least, taken as a step on the way to
denying some schools the use of the holistic policies they have developed over time.

Just feeling my way.