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

To: Lane3 who wrote (15920)	9/10/2001 10:09:42 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Interviews are too judgemental...no matter what people think. The first 93% of an impression of someone is non verbal.....and the rest of the time is spent justifing that first impression. I've actually helped go over scholarship apps with the requirements described, and you would be surprised how candid and refreshing they are.... This method has produced wonderful candidates, and who cares what race, creed, color or financial background has to do with anything...Obviously, all of that certainly doesn't have to count. It simply doesn't matter.

To: Lane3 who wrote (15920)	9/10/2001 11:44:41 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 59480

Anybody who can memorize an essay and spew it out in good form probably deserves to be in college anyhow. Any admissions process is potentially flawed. Any system can be worked by those with money. I think that proposal came closer to finding a student's true capabilities than most would, though it should be only one part of the process -- it rewards verbal thinkers, but punishes non-verbal thinkers. So probably there should be a variety of on-the-spot processes to test for various desirable attributes. But the fact that some students can "work" a system doesn't make it necessarily invalid. You can't avoid that totally (even the McDonald's game was rigged). The best you can do is reduce the opportunities for manipulation. Which are rife in the present system. Or don't you think so?