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puts on ex-Ivy League admission officer robe Boy, it's a good thing they've got someone with admissions experience on their team... http://quantios.com/index.

puts on ex-Ivy League admission officer robe Boy, it's a good thing they've got someone with admissions experience on their team... http://quantios.com/index.php?page=company http://quantios.com/index.php?page=company Wait, wha? They don't? How is this different from any other snake oil being sold to parents of middle class white kids (rightly) worried that junior's at a disadvantage? "We use numbers!" That's great, but at the end of the day, the admission offices don't. The decisions made at the elite schools are either obvious or highly random/subjective.

DTrejo 17y ago
>highly random/subjective. Part of the reason they seem so random is because we don't know their methods. For example, most people don't know that many schools use email click-through statistics to gauge interest. Demonstrated interest affects your chances to get into a school (Cornell does this).
patio11 17y ago
at the end of the day, the admission offices don't Oh, they are very, very highly numeric places -- they just concentrate on the kind of numbers that have to be burned after calculation. ("We only admitted how many black students this year? STOP. Pick up the green folders pile and find me students you think would do well if they stretched a little bit.") I used to like Japanese universities for doing admissions via high-stakes entrance exams. Having worked on those systems, I think I now love them. Publishing the score distribution for the exam last year, broken down by department, with the exact passing score needed for admission in the bloody application packet is just the cherry on top of the pie of awesome. If Harvard leaked as much data as a Japanese university there would be a public firestorm. (Because Harvard engages in severe, systematic racial discrimination, but prefers to lie about the existence and extent of it.)

DTrejo 17y ago

>highly random/subjective. Part of the reason they seem so random is because we don't know their methods. For example, most people don't know that many schools use email click-through statistics to gauge interest. Demonstrated interest affects your chances to get into a school (Cornell does this).

patio11 17y ago

at the end of the day, the admission offices don't Oh, they are very, very highly numeric places -- they just concentrate on the kind of numbers that have to be burned after calculation. ("We only admitted how many black students this year? STOP. Pick up the green folders pile and find me students you think would do well if they stretched a little bit.") I used to like Japanese universities for doing admissions via high-stakes entrance exams. Having worked on those systems, I think I now love them. Publishing the score distribution for the exam last year, broken down by department, with the exact passing score needed for admission in the bloody application packet is just the cherry on top of the pie of awesome. If Harvard leaked as much data as a Japanese university there would be a public firestorm. (Because Harvard engages in severe, systematic racial discrimination, but prefers to lie about the existence and extent of it.)