[404] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Big Rant: Political correctness, Aff. Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Tue May 1 08:32:27 2001
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 08:31:45 -0400
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From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
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At 05:53 PM 4/30/01 , Anne Hunter wrote
>What leads any of you to believe that MIT accepts *any* underqualified
>students?
Nothing at all, and after twenty-two hours at the SC today,
I'm regretting every day you DON'T accept underqualified
students.
>I believe it's been said just in the last few days on this
>list that ~10K students apply, 85% of whom are well-qualified for MIT,
>and that MIT accepts ~16%.
That's a big miss favored hit ratio.
>I'll concede that it's possible that some
>sort of screwup might happen once in a great while, perhaps where
>someone misrepresents him or herself, or there's an input or computer
>error so that a higher gpa or SAT scores are attributed to an
>applicant.
Are you suggesting something?
>I've read freshman applications for the Admissions office quite a few
>times in the past, and we were *never* instructed to raise our
>assessment of the student if the candidate was a woman or
>under-represented minority. There were many times when I wrote
>"there's nothing of distinction or excellence here" without regard to
>the applicant's gender or ethnicity. The first year I did it I kept a
>list of my ~100 applicants and how qualified I thought they were. I
>checked once the lists were out and none of the ones I thought were
>less than top students had been admitted, even if they were female
>or underrepresented minorities.
Zhe explained this quite well a few posts back.
It's good to see some support fall in behind her
on that point.
Rev Prez
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