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re: You be the admissions director
Posted on 9/22/14 at 5:40 pm to Zach
Posted on 9/22/14 at 5:40 pm to Zach
Here is what I'll say. I know three people who got 36 ACT scores... and they got admitted into every school they applied.
If a college won't take someone with a 36 ACT (or max SAT score), then our educational system is in worse shape than I thought.
But my overall point remains. A school is NOT going to take an inferior candiate (no matter how they rank the kids) over a superior one. What will happen, is, poor, smart kids will get in, and not pay anything to attend, while rich, smart kids will have to pay through the nose.
I don't know if your affirmative action comment was directed toward me or the other poster... but my skin is pretty darn white.
If a college won't take someone with a 36 ACT (or max SAT score), then our educational system is in worse shape than I thought.
But my overall point remains. A school is NOT going to take an inferior candiate (no matter how they rank the kids) over a superior one. What will happen, is, poor, smart kids will get in, and not pay anything to attend, while rich, smart kids will have to pay through the nose.
I don't know if your affirmative action comment was directed toward me or the other poster... but my skin is pretty darn white.
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Posted on 9/22/14 at 5:45 pm to LSUFanHouston
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A school is NOT going to take an inferior candiate (no matter how they rank the kids) over a superior one.
You're inferior if you believe that. What else are needs-based or race based admissions slots for? Such criteria would not exist if they were only interested in getting the best students.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 6:11 pm to LSUFanHouston
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A school is NOT going to take an inferior candiate (no matter how they rank the kids) over a superior one.
Happens all the time at law schools admissions. The thing is it isn't the super superior student with the 180 LSAT that doesn't get an offer, it's the kid that is at the various low ends of the schools typical admission spectrum. Ie the lowest non diversity admission is 168 but the diversity selection is a 160. The jump can be pretty stark at that juncture.
Btw not sure if posted but you could make a "meritocracy" argument for a lower scoring individual. There is certainly "merit" to doing "more with less" but of course what is an acceptable lower accomplishment is highly subjective.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 6:51 pm to LSUFanHouston
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don't know if your affirmative action comment was directed toward me or the other poster... but my skin is pretty darn white.
No it was directed at me. That gets thrown around every so often when I embarrass people in debates and they have nothing else to go to.
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