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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents really need to get out of their head the idea that there is (or should be) anything objective about the admissions process at any college.

Colleges, because they have the freedom to do so, evaluate the entire admissions profile and make decisions about how to put together a class that fits and achieves the goals of the university, whatever they might be. Businesses do the same thing when they hire people.

UVA admits and gives full scholarships to kids with low-3 GPAs and 11-1200 SAT scores because they need help on the football, baseball, or lacrosse team. They have the right to do that and it's in their best interest to do so. They have the capacity to admit more students than they might otherwise because of money that flows in either directly from their extremely successful athletic program or because of donations that are inspired by their extremely successful athletic program. [i]That's how many colleges work.[/i]

Stop obsessing over all of the metrics - they matter a lot less than you think they do - and start developing kids that universities believe will either give donations or inspire them.[/quote]

To follow up on this - parents and students who spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out the "magic formula" are wasting their time. There isn't one.

Schools are looking for what they are looking for and they don't publish that information for very understandable reasons. And what they are looking for changes constantly in response to how each admitted class looks and how each admitted class performs.

I don't blame parents for wanting to understand exactly what the rules of the game are so that they can follow them to the letter - but expecting that schools are going to tell you exactly what to do, or even have an explicit set of rules that they follow relentlessly, is just silly nonsense.[/quote]

That's a presumptuous thing to say.[/quote]

PP. How is all of that presumptuous?[/quote]

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