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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry to be the negative Nelly, but then you've got the flip side which is the X at the top and far right of the screen (high GPA and high SAT scores.)   Why is that kid not getting in when all these kids with lower and further left are--criminal record?[/quote]

Maybe there is something in their application package that makes the school feel like it would not be a good fit?  My mom used to teach at a school for math and science and she could always tell when the applicants really didn’t want to be there (despite having top stats); it was usually the parents who wanted them there.  Also, sometimes schools just want a variety of students — ones who will participate in ways different from a high-stats kid.[/quote]

The scattergrams don’t tell you much about the applicant or the program he/she is applying to.  Maybe the check mark on the lower left side was a boy applying to the education school and maybe the x on the upper right was a boy applying to CS. Those two programs have very different admit rates. And in one males are underrepresented while in the other they are overrepresented. Outcomes will be very different in those two scenarios. [/quote]

This hits the nail on the head. We can’t just look at the overall numbers, grades, and test scores. He’s a male applying to Liberal Arts. Numbers of males are down to begin with. In addition, males are applying in large numbers to engineering, business, and related fields. The university wants to get some kind of gender balance in Liberal Arts.[/quote]

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