Re:Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in...
by bilbo0s on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:28PM
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That's not how Iowa works. You get the 245 points, you get in. Full stop. It's law.
It's a system that can't be "gamed". (And, coincidentally, doesn't need to be gamed.) The idea was that it would take all the race, and the extra-curriculars, and the subjective stuff out of the system. And it did. But it also gave everyone admittance. Which is fine. Maybe everyone should get into college? I don't know?
My point is, when you have a set target, it's pretty much guaranteed that after a few years nearly everyone will be hitting that target. It's the nature of the beast.
Score = (score from exam at the school you want to go to * 2 + GPA + high school Math grade) / 4
That’s for engineering school. Every school has a different formula and holds its own exams. But the formula is public.
Sort all candidates, draw a line. When some of the selected people chose different schools, draw another line after a month.
We didn’t have an equivalent of SAT. But it can easily be plugged in a formula like this. There’s no studying to the test, since every school has a different test.