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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for those that think life experience should not matter.

How should elite colleges select among students that meet thei admissions criteria.

For example, 100,000 students apply to Harvard and Harvard can admit 3,000 students total.  How should it select the 1 in 10 that will receive a yes?  What is the right criteria?

Can it care about gender ratio?  Can it want  broad geographic representation?  Can it care about different life experiences?  How should it consider the different opportunities to excel that it’s applicants experienced?  Is this just a numbers game?  [/quote]

The first filter should be academic.  Select all the 4.0, 1600s first.  They apply your filters - Black, poor, whatever but be clear about what they are.  Not some opaque mumbo, jumbo BS.  People get pissed off when academically inferior (yes, inferior) candidates get selected in the name of equity, which BTW, follows that candidate (and others that look like them) for the rest of their lives. That's theft and is BS. [/quote]

4.0/1600s would more than fill the class. And leave out many people who are creative, entrepreneurial, won top awards in favor of people who get a perfect score on a test that measures upt to HS geometry.  Recipe for a school of people who toe the line and work to the measure not who contribute to society in interesting ways.[/quote]

You wouldn't an entire school of 4.0/1600s. That is in no way preparing students for the real world.

You need a reasonable mix of people in terms academics and experience. The secret sauce to a great university is developing and assembling an interesting or compelling cohort. [/quote]

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