Many Cambridge college admissions tutors say that the grade predictions for state- and private-school applicants seem equally erratic.
A Riverside Drive lady told two or three friends that she was leaving town for a few months and had decided to sublet her apartment found herself besieged by a dozen applicants, all equally deserving.
The New Yorker, February 24 , 1945P. 17 A Riverside Drive lady told two or three friends that she was leaving town for a few months and had decided to sublet her apartment found herself besieged by a dozen applicants, all equally deserving.
Specifically, NLH and LH applicants are equally well educated, but are younger, less experienced, more likely to be new graduates, more male, and are less likely to be married than LH applicants.
Only if all applicants are equally qualified or there is no feasible and cost-effective way to distinguish among the applicants according to their merit would a lottery satisfy the ideal of equality of opportunity.
In many cases students can lose their voice and personality in the process, which can make it hard for them to stand out against other applicants with equally impressive grades, courses, and STEM experiences.
While some may attribute their success to a high G.P.A., competitive SAT scores, or parents who make a substantial monetary donation, admissions counselors maintain that all applicants are evaluated equally with a comprehensive formula and that each application is often read multiple times.
Many applicants interested in equally worthy, yet less "sexy" fields of interest are forced to choose between adding a third part-time job and sleeping in order to accommodate the hours required by most unpaid internships.
In violation of formal equality of opportunity, nonwhite applicants are favored over equally qualified whites.
