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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the criticisms is that the Harvard admissions office is ranking/rating the candidate's personality without meeting him/her.  But it seems likely to me that the admissions office is relying heavily on letters of recommendation.  That seems perfectly legitimate to me.[/quote]
the folks interviewing the students gave them positive "personality" assessments, but the admissions staff would give those same students negative scores without ever having met them.  How would you rate a personality based on letters of recommendation?[/quote]

Do you really think an alumni interviewer has a better sense of a candidate's personality than a teacher who taught him/her for a year (or perhaps more)?  I'm not saying that teacher recommendations might not be biased, but certainly a teacher is likely to comment on a student's personality (is she friendly, mature, responsible, caring, etc.), so I don't think it's fair to say that Harvard admissions officers are basing their personality assessments on nothing.  Unless the study takes teacher recommendations into account, then I am unpersuaded by the fact that admissions officers disagree with an alum's recommendation based on a one-off interview.[/quote]

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