Word: extracurricular
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...could do one thing as UC president what would it be? Establish an extracurricular review to create collaboration across social boundaries...
...admissions are not solely dependent on quantifiable factors like SAT scores. Few people would disagree with this. However, the editorial states that colleges are “searching for students who will be leaders in all spheres of the world” and have “Leadership qualities, extracurricular involvement, [and] achievement outside of the classroom”. Juxtaposing these statements with a discussion on the discrepancy Asian-Americans face in college admissions implies (intentionally or not) that Asian-American students lack leadership qualities and non-academic pursuits. Such a misconception is an example of an unfortunate stereotype that...
...coveted, I think it would be reasonable if they let the public know more about their admissions practices. More specifically, I think that schools receiving a significant amount of federal money, say $50 million, should be required to publicly release the GPAs, grades, SAT scores, AP scores, lists of extracurricular activities, income, geographic region, and race of all students who applied and the admissions decision rendered on each one. Students would of course be identified anonymously. This would allow the public a better idea of just how schools make their decisionbys, and would allow the statistically inclined...
...response to public pressure about discrimination and quotas in 1988, Harvard’s Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 asserted that “while Asian Americans are slightly stronger than whites on academic criteria, they are slightly less strong on extracurricular criteria.” These comments are eerily reminiscent of the stereotyping of Jews in attempts to limit their enrollment in the early 20th century...
Colleges, then, are right to forgive some students’ lower scores. Leadership qualities, extracurricular involvement, achievement outside of the classroom, and raw demographics are factors that are key in evaluating every applicant. When the numbers are tabulated, a few snapshots of the data will look extreme, but this is no reason to flee from a worthy process...