<p>oh yes and please let this thread remain true to the original topic.. about columbia decisions and various factors</p>
<p>They have to pick people who are interesting and interested in Columbia. Some of those kids who scored in the 1500's might not have had much else to do. They want diversity and talent and not just in the classroom. To be well-rounded is the real challenge.</p>
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Can anybody with high scores place a lawsuit against an ivy after being rejected? :P
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hmm ... for me this looks like it possibly might be a case of be careful of what you ask for. If the schools in the US went to a policy that drove admissions strictly by a quantitative method using grades and SATs this would drive lots of things ... 1) even more pressure on grades and test prep in high school ... and 2) it would greatly hurt one of the absolute strengths of our selection process, in my opinion. Schools have very different personalities and the current admission's processes help drive these personalities. Williams and Swarthmore have very similar stats of attendees but are very different places ... and I believe we are much better off that they are so different ... and the current admission processes help maintain those differences. Penn and Brown have similar stats and are very different places ... and that is a good thing! Driving admissions off stats and not off the subjective human driven process we have now will drive the personality out of our schools ... and I believe that would be a terrible thing. (signed 3togo who went to Cornell because I LOVED the campus and, more importantly, the feel of the students and the campus lfe)</p>
<p>CUNY Harlem, and UC Palo Alto, hahaha, that made me laugh, so what school is this baba attending?</p>
<p>upenn probably.. didnt realise how stressful admissions can be until i started the process.. thank God columbia cares more about the personal part</p>