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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (53769)	8/4/2002 5:03:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

how would you like the process run? Universities are tiered. They attract and accept students based on where they are in the tier structure. I would think you would want to keep the bands fairly narrow so that the students would be more or less equally smart. Diversity of experiences is good but I don't think diversity of smarts is. I don't know how wide that band might be in terms of entrance exam test scores, but instinctively I wouldn't think gaps of hundreds of points would be a good idea. If there's a big candidate pool, you could probably get them all within a hundred points. Lets say you were aiming for the 1300-1400 kids. You'd start picking from 1400 down until you had filled maybe 90% of the openings. Maybe that would take you down to 1352. Then you'd look at other materials like letters of recommendation, grades, and essays and eliminate any kids that are unattractive for some reason, like a rap sheet or a lousy attitude. Then you'd fish around in the pool of applicants that didn't make the first cut and pick some that seemed interesting or worthy for whatever reason, including overcoming hardships. Or virtuoso musicians or State Department kids or having won American Idol or the state science fair or having started a corporation at age 10 or done volunteer work or looking drop-dead gorgeous or whatever. That's what I think I might do.