<p>According to this article. This is not a new idea, though. </p>
<p>The</a> Ivy Curtain</p>
<p>"Reviewed by Jeffrey Kittay</p>
<p>Sunday, October 30, 2005; Page BW03</p>
<p>THE CHOSEN</p>
<p>The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton</p>
<p>By Jerome Karabel</p>
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Interviewers for Yale had to fill out a checklist of each candidate's physical characteristics, a practice that was eliminated only in the 1960s.
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<p>That's interesting. I didn't know that. I wonder if colleges still secretly do that. Interviewer making notes: "Under no circumstances can you accept this kid. He will ruin our random photos to put in our brochures/catalogues!"</p>