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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do Harvard professors (not administrators) say, off the record, about this policy of admitting students as conversation pieces rather than because they will contribute to the scholarly community?

I'm the poster who really isn't qualified to comment on Mr. Hogg in particular, so I won't. It's just that this seems like the way to select dinner party guests, not new members of a university.

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You are also the poster who can't read the earlier posts.

Elite colleges always accept applicants of exceptional accomplishment and promise even if their statistics are below the statistical averages of the non-extraordinary students.

That's why they accept athletes, kid tv and movie stars, models, olympic medalists, competition winners, published authors, and kids who have become well known as spokespeople for certain issues.

If they think someone is exceptional now, they have a much higher-than-average chance of being exceptional later in life.  It's also why they accept the children of the well connected (Bush, Kennedy, etc).

Not a "conversation piece" (as stupid suggestion as there is in this thread) or something for PR.

High stats are the most common thing for these colleges to find, and they know -- BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR THREE HUNDRED YEARS OR MORE -- that high stats are not the best predictor of future exceptional achievement.

The sooner everyone understands this, the better they will know why their 36 didn't get into Yale.[/quote]

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