<p>They did do a study like this, though it was the ENTIRE class because the new dean did it that way. Several years later, he was fired because everything went wrong. A cutoff is no way to build a class.</p>
<p>I can’t get past the bit about the admissions officers assigning scores for the various components of students’ applications yet never adding the numbers up to arrive at a composite score. What is the point of doing that? Besides, wouldn’t at least the more quantitatively-minded adcoms make a mental estimate of the total number when comparing students, regardless? Seems like an odd policy.</p>