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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15897)	9/9/2001 1:13:19 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Yes, colleges looked at a variety of talents in their students -- they didn't want a class with six trombone players and no violinists, or all humanities majors and nobody interested in French. They still do that, but it's not what they mean by diversity. I know that they gave points for economic diversity; otherwise I wouldn't have been there. At our college, they didn't give points for economic diversity; what they did was accept students who needed financial aid if they wanted the students for other reasons. Actually, for a while a lot of colleges had a policy of not looking at ability to pay at all; they accepted the students they wanted, then figured out how much financial aid they had to offer to get them. Plus they usually had a whole bunch of merit scholarships for various types of people. When I was the Treasurer for a small graduate college I was responsible for a large number of small scholarship funds given to the college over the years. During the application season the admissions office would send over every week the names and qualifications of students they had admitted who needed aid, and I would send out what I'm sure the students thought of as a very prying, weird questionnaire -- were either of your grandfathers Masons was one question, because we had a scholarship for the grandchild of a Mason. Stuff like that. I would then try to match them up with our named scholarships. Those we couldn't match would be helped out of general scholarship funds. There were a few scholarships that were hard to match up -- several, for example, were for graduates of designated local schools -- and sometimes the money would pile up for several years before we found an available applicant. But in our case, we didn't go looking specifically for a student to match the qualifications (though we did publish a little booklet with the requirements and invite students when they applied to indicate whether they were qualified for aid, but few actually did); rather, we tried to match up the requirements with students accepted on their own merits. From discussions with colleagues in other colleges, that's how most of them seemed to go about it. Of course, those were the days when alumni were generous, and students were expected to work and we had plenty of jobs for them, so we usually had enough scholarship and financial aid to go around.