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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what if you are a bad orator?[/quote]

For Brown at least, the only requirement is for the prospective student to say their name and high school. After that you can do what you want. The student doesn't necessarily have to be the star as long as the video is still about the student, if that makes sense.

The speculation that this is a way of identifying non-minorities posing as minorities is interesting. Brown's came about during COVID, to replace interviews. It is more equitable in that sense (since not all people had access to an interviewer). But, it still creates some equity issues in terms of access to resources. That's why highly edited/high production techniques could not be well received.

[b]What I often think about is security - while most kids today are pretty comfortable having their video/face out there, Brown (and others) must need to have some pretty significant security in place to ensure someone cannot access all these videos, each of which puts a name of a minor to a specific face to specific high school. [/b]I think the legal challenge may lie there, not in the affirmative action sense.

My kid did one. I think it's good, but I also hope it's not a large data point on which they base any decisions - i think some kids may give it outsize importance since it's different (supplemental essays have all started to sound the same at this point). And that may be part of this - it's possible, but trickier, to repurpose these videos for different schools. [/quote]

I don’t get this at all.  How is it any less secure than, say, a HS yearbook? Or any other school system of records that is kept or school ID purposes?[/quote]

Agreed--the concern is ridiculous. These schools have endless private data on applicants: names, social security numbers, essays that reveal all sorts of personal stuff, grades, etc. 
They keep it all secure. They're not going to suddenly keep these videos in a non-secure spot.  [/quote]

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