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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Want to see the jokesters who control your kids' futures? Note the AGE of some of these admissions counselors: 25? PLEASE!

From the Daily Beast article referenced below:

Former admissions officer at elite, small liberal arts college in the Northeast, age 25

[b]“One year I had a student with a near-perfect SAT score and straight A’s. I’d originally put him in the submitted pile, but then we had to reduce the list. I reread his essays and frankly, they were just a little more boring than the other kids. So I cut him. Boring was the only justification that I needed and he was out.[/b]

Former admissions officer, elite, small liberal arts college in Massachusetts:

We were always looking for candidates from underrepresented groups. So if you are just a typical white girl from New Jersey and your application didn’t pass muster, it was relegated to the reject pile without a second thought. With a minority kid with the same stats, you just can’t do that. They always warrant a second or even third look.”

And my personal favorite from the same 25 year old above:

"One night, I got food poisoning at a restaurant in Buffalo. The next day, I rejected all the Buffalo applications."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/09/dirty-secrets-of-college-admissions.html

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Boring is a good reason to eliminate that candidate. THe admissions counselor had a whole pile of qualified kids.  Picking more interesting kids who have more interesting ideas or have more interesting experiences or more interesting interests over "perfect" score robots is entirely reasonable.    Perfect score robots are a dime-a-dozen.

Treating a minority kid with perfect numbers with a little more consideraton is also reaosnable.  They are more rare. [/quote]

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