tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8063306071550941800..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: MIT admissions dean and adult vs teenage naiveteagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-76381016744436684262007-04-29T15:54:00.000-04:002007-04-29T15:54:00.000-04:00Personally, I think that even private colleges tha...Personally, I think that even private colleges that get federal funding need to make their selection process public.<BR/><BR/>If colleges actually wanted to reduce the stress of application, they would put more emphasis on standardized test scores and less on extracuricular activities and grades. After all, one stresses like hell for days over the SAT, but chronically over schoolwork.<BR/><BR/> EC's privilege children of fairly well-off parents who provide them spending money, while penalizing children of lower income or stingier parents who have to work for spending money.<BR/><BR/>At minimum, schools should consider time spent working at a real job on a par with volunteer and extra-extracurriculars. Bosses get upset when one pads one's hours. Volunteer organizations tend to expect it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-57486489234515407422007-04-28T21:46:00.000-04:002007-04-28T21:46:00.000-04:00How could her admissions strategy have reduce stre...How could her admissions strategy have reduce stress in the first place? You've got more applicants than spots, so some way of rationing them is necessary. And if you do it on a lottery basis, your school would suffer losses in prestige. Her strategy just privileges the people most passionate about extracurriculars, making every kid anxious about whether he volunteered enough hours, started enough groups, etc. <BR/><BR/>I figure the more immutable the criteria of admissions system, the less stressful it is for students, because then the failure is less their fault.<BR/><BR/>"Hey, don't blame me -- I'm a multiculturalist! Go after those backward rednecks instead!"<BR/>Actually, at Cornell, a drunken white guy called some black guys names and then stabbed one. Nathan Poffenbarger had written for a lefty paper and was active in college dem politics. Then the campus newspaper blamed the <I>conservative</I> paper, saying it created a hostile atmosphere (implicitly referring to an article about race and crime, titled, "The Color of Cornell's crime: Unmasking the Face of Ithacompton").Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com