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Applying E.A. boosts an applicant??s chances by 18.9 percent—the same amount that a 100-point jump on the SATs would—according to the book’s statistical analysis of more than 500,000 actual admissions decisions. The effects of applying E.D. are even more drastic, giving an applicant a 34.8 percent boost, which corresponds to a 190-point SAT advantage...
Those who defend our inalienable right to free speech must never hinder the ability of another to speak his mind. So too must the leaders of minority communities be ever vigilant against the menace of discrimination. While race should be considered as a sometimes-integral part of an applicant??s personal background, policies that discriminate against a person, whether that person is white, black, brown or purple, are immoral and antiquated. It is time that we move past race and start assessing people based on their merit, not on their skin color...
...Common Application starts out innocently enough, asking the applicant??s name, address and possible career plans before going on to test scores. Then, in an inconspicuous spot halfway down the application, sandwiched between test scores and academic honors, we find family questions. After a month of SAT analogies and SAT II sentence completions, surely the applicant notices that something seems a little out of place...
...application. The family section asks questions about parents’ occupation, college, graduate school and degree. It even steps gingerly into the domain of siblings and asks the names of the colleges they attended and the degrees they attained. Why does the admissions office care which schools the applicant??s parents and siblings attended? Who is applying for admission to Harvard College: the family, or the applicant...
...From an applicant??s point of view, the top three schools are still Harvard, Stanford, Wharton,” he said. “And that is not likely to change year to year, as these rankings seem to do. Those places are, and remain, the hardest to get into and have the most clout with peers...