<p>A very interesting table for everyone to enjoy:
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/01/08/education/edlife/data.1.graphic.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/01/08/education/edlife/data.1.graphic.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the article! Too bad scores are not included also as factors!</p>
<p>Thanks, mate. Makes me wonder about the schools I applied to where I didn't request an interview cause I knew I couldn't go to the US and I kind of doubted there's alumni nearby in Romania/Bucharest. But, I forgot all about telephone interviews and inquiring if the school offers them as Brown does.</p>
<p><em>cursing</em></p>
<p>yeah, why isn't grades and scores included?</p>
<p>Oh, all the factors are "intangibles". GPA and scores are very tangible measures of performance.</p>
<p>The stupid SAT scores kills my chances</p>
<p>and what about transfer students? some places don't offer transfer students interview, so i guess that would make everything else weight more right?</p>
<p>hahaha...looking at NYU on that list - thats definitely not true. Their most important factor is SAT scores (for Stern at least)...they probably don't even read essays...with 30k applications I highly doubt they do. BTW - there is some corruptness going on at that school...lets just say an inside source tried bribing me a spot at Stern if I payed him since he has connections with 1 of the admissions counselors.</p>
<p>the alumni relation seems to be really important, which really sux, since my parents didn't go to school in north america :(</p>
<p>alumni relations shouldn't count that much, since you are only competing with students from the same pool of needy internationals.</p>
<p>no!!
JHU: recommendations, very important.</p>
<p>i hope this chart is slightly inaccurate.. because my teachers truly truly dislike me..</p>
<p>I'm seeing a pattern.. essays are 1 in nearly all LACs listed and tier1 and 2 schools.</p>