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"Admissions officers often see through this type of resume stuffing, and reluctantly use these candidates to fill in space after they selected their top candida

by pcurve 10y ago

"Admissions officers often see through this type of resume stuffing, and reluctantly use these candidates to fill in space after they selected their top candidates." Admissions officers look for born-geniuses that can effortlessly get perfect scores. Then they fill the rest with lesser geniuses that had to work at getting the perfect scores. Once you get IN Ivy top 10, it is not that hard to survive. "An admission officer would swoon over a kid with a passion for biology and husbandry" Thanks for sharing and I've heard this to be case from multiple sources as well, which means, it can also be gamed. Parents can structure their children's lives in order to weave this kind of narrative.

csa 10y ago
> Admissions officers look for born-geniuses that can effortlessly get perfect scores. Meh... I hear this a lot. This is a gross over-characterization of the reality. There are plenty of true geniuses with high grades and high SAT scores who do not get into elite schools. The applicants need something else. > Thanks for sharing and I've heard this to be case from multiple sources as well, which means, it can also be gamed. This is a half-truth. A mediocre applicant will have nothing to show from their experiences, and their recommendation from a person in that field will probably be something like "applicant is nice, shows up, and tries hard". A strong applicant will have something like a publication or a documented initiative that they led, and their recommendation will be something like "applicant did things that went above and beyond what many of our regular employees do -- I don't want this applicant to leave for school because we will be a worse place without them" (with believable detailed examples). Even that will be gamed, and sometimes it is, but there will usually be gaps in the narrative unless there is a decent-sized group of people who are colluding together. Whenever someone thinks that there is a new formula for getting into elite schools, they don't realize that the key ingredients are things like creativity, curiosity, and leadership. These are ridiculously hard to fake in a compelling manner.

by pcurve 10y ago

csa 10y ago

> Admissions officers look for born-geniuses that can effortlessly get perfect scores. Meh... I hear this a lot. This is a gross over-characterization of the reality. There are plenty of true geniuses with high grades and high SAT scores who do not get into elite schools. The applicants need something else. > Thanks for sharing and I've heard this to be case from multiple sources as well, which means, it can also be gamed. This is a half-truth. A mediocre applicant will have nothing to show from their experiences, and their recommendation from a person in that field will probably be something like "applicant is nice, shows up, and tries hard". A strong applicant will have something like a publication or a documented initiative that they led, and their recommendation will be something like "applicant did things that went above and beyond what many of our regular employees do -- I don't want this applicant to leave for school because we will be a worse place without them" (with believable detailed examples). Even that will be gamed, and sometimes it is, but there will usually be gaps in the narrative unless there is a decent-sized group of people who are colluding together. Whenever someone thinks that there is a new formula for getting into elite schools, they don't realize that the key ingredients are things like creativity, curiosity, and leadership. These are ridiculously hard to fake in a compelling manner.