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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in law school, I was a research assistant to a prof who basically ran the admissions process (he was a force of nature and had written a successful casebook -- they pretty much let him do whatever he wanted to).  His ideal approach -- not what he did, but what he would have liked to do --  was as follows:

1) Based on scores and GPA, eliminate the bottom 10% of the applicant pool as a kindness to them.

2) Based on scores and GPA, accept the top 10% because you have to.

3) Take the rest of the applications and climb to the top of the tall tower on campus.  Then throw the applications down the stairs.  In even-numbered years, accept all those that land face up; in odd-numbered years, accept all those that land face down.

Having now gone through the college applications process with three kids and through grad school applications with two of them, I'd say this sounds about right.  [/quote]

The results from this admission cycle does feel as if someone drop all of those apps in the middle from a clock tower.[/quote]

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