TRANSPARENCY: Should PUBLIC universities be required to reveal basis for rejection?

<p>The difficulty in providing such information is that the decisions that don’t seem to fit the typical profile usually are due to individual circumstances. Why did the kid with the 3.8, 1400 (M&CR) get rejected from Big State U, while the 3.5, 1200 got in? Perhaps the second kid is an athletic recruit or applied to an art program where a portfolio is more important than the grades/SAT. Perhaps the first kid never submitted his or her recommendations. Maybe the second kid was not a native english speaker and his or her grades in math/science were all As, but LA and History brought down the GPA. </p>

<p>The schools report the general outline of who gets in and who does not. There is no way to explain all of the anomalies.</p>