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re: You be the admissions director
Posted on 9/21/14 at 4:20 pm to Walking the Earth
Posted on 9/21/14 at 4:20 pm to Walking the Earth
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If the conversation is centering on need based aid, I'm not sure what the problem is with students needing aid getting it, especially with the monster endowments some of these schools have.
This thread has been a total cluster. Zach hasn't made any sense, and refuses to provide links to the articles that prompted his OP. Instead, he's created this false premise that Ivys like Harvard are using poverty as some new, preferred admission criteria given special weight with no evidence supporting that. Now its his nap time and he is running away. 
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Posted on 9/21/14 at 4:31 pm to onmymedicalgrind
Well, NYT articles aside, if anyone is interested in how things really roll, head over to Amazon.com or your nearest Kindle and hit up "The Price of Admission" by Daniel Golden, from the Wall Street Journal and you will see that favorable admissions policies swing both ways.
A much tougher to find work, and one that gives a broader picture into the process than POA, which centers on how the rich and legacies can really work the system in their favor, is Questions and Admissions: Reflections on 100,000 Admissions Decisions at Stanford, by former admissions dean Jean Fetter.
That book is pretty dated since at the time of writing, Stanford worked strictly within the regular admissions cycle while they now have Early Action but it does give a holistic view of how a class gets created at an elite university, with a diverse class of intellectuals, jocks, rich kids, poor kids, legacies, AA admits and what have you. A little "holier than thou" in some cases (Stanford never buckled to pressure on admits? Really? LOL!) but a good view from the inside.
A much tougher to find work, and one that gives a broader picture into the process than POA, which centers on how the rich and legacies can really work the system in their favor, is Questions and Admissions: Reflections on 100,000 Admissions Decisions at Stanford, by former admissions dean Jean Fetter.
That book is pretty dated since at the time of writing, Stanford worked strictly within the regular admissions cycle while they now have Early Action but it does give a holistic view of how a class gets created at an elite university, with a diverse class of intellectuals, jocks, rich kids, poor kids, legacies, AA admits and what have you. A little "holier than thou" in some cases (Stanford never buckled to pressure on admits? Really? LOL!) but a good view from the inside.
This post was edited on 9/21/14 at 4:32 pm
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