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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds reasonable. What don't you like about it?[/quote]

OP here. [b]It just seems weird and arbitrary.[/b]  If you read Moneyball by Michael Lewis it is kind of obvious that with this much applicant data it should be possible to design a system that predicts success better than telling admissions people to go out and pick a couple of thousand kids (out of 10,000 with similar stats?) who seem interesting to them.

Is there any follow up? What breaks the monotony for someone reading 2,000 applications from kids probably starts being very bizarre after a while.  Do they track whether their hunches about the kids turned out to be correct? Do they ever do experiments --- admit 200 kids who write how much they love chemistry and 200 who write about about phantom farting, or whatever, perhaps just a control group chosen randomly from a SAT/GPA band, and then see which group turned out better?  Is it all basically seat of the pants?  [/quote]

That's why people say top-tier college admission is a crapshoot! [/quote]

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