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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the OP, thanks for all of your thoughts! But they raise another question - I thought I understood the lottery part of the process, but maybe I don’t. I thought the lottery part comes at the end, so the school decides whether or not to interview you based on GPA and recommendations (no lottery element). Then if you’re invited to interview, you do that and by the end of that process you are scores and ranked by Walls. But then at this point there is a lottery that decides on your admission? Why, if they have ranked the kids? Why don’t they just admit based on that ranking? Or have I misunderstood? [/quote]

My understanding is they don't want to do it by ranking, because they want to have a school that's well-balanced demographically and geographically, politically not objectional, but also a reasonable male/female split, and various kids with various interests so it doesn't get out of whack in terms of subject matter. This is just the reality of it, and if they said otherwise I wouldn't believe them.

I think trying to assign numerical ratings to interviews and recommendations is a very squishy thing, and looking at GPA across so many very different schools is also not very empirically precise. So this is how it is and I don't see how it can be otherwise. [/quote]

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