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Colleges have limited capacity, and individual departments have even less. Given this information, what criteria would you suggest be used when determining admi
by antasvara 3y ago
Colleges have limited capacity, and individual departments have even less. Given this information, what criteria would you suggest be used when determining admission into a department if not "likelihood of academic success?"
- dgacmu 3y agoThis is the core thing. Our acceptance rate is extremely low - under 10% for computer science. There are a lot of things we want to accomplish in admissions; _one_ of them is a statistical bias towards being able to succeed in the program. We obviously can't predict super accurately for a single student, but we try to create scoring criteria that result in success. Dropping the SAT caused a statistically significant reduction in success. We look at a lot of things, but, much as Harvard observed, a lot of those other things have even more bias. If you rocked the AIME, for example, we know a lot about your math skills, but there's a lot of bias ($$$) in which schools make it possible to participate in that, and there are a lot of students who will do well despite not having done AMC/AIME. Etc.