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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes and seasonal reader jobs pay $12-$18 and you are on the clock to read 4 - 6 applications per hour and score them. (ps. you can find the job descriptions - even at Ivies that show those expectations)

The entire process is broken

It should be like residency match in medicine - you rank your matches 1 to 20 and they rank applicants and those are matched.

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Somebody would still have to create the ranked lists on the university side, and the number of slots available at a given school would still be limited. You'd still have huge numbers of kids with similar stats applying to selective schools that would have to discern some sort of differences between them. Ultimately the ranked lists of applicants wouldn't necessarily be any fairer than the current offers/waitlists/rejections.

Also, there are a LOT more undergraduates and colleges than there are med students and residency programs (fewer than 50,000 residents vs. well over a million college applicants), so the algorithms would become immensely complicated very quickly. I don't think it would make it any easier for students and families to navigate or predict.[/quote]

Plus the end result is so dependent on tuition. My kid could get into LACs ranked in 30s, maybe 20s, but needs merit aid so will mostly be looking at schools in 40s-60s. ED or a residency match system wouldn’t work for our family.[/quote]

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