When describing their path towards the current application, applicants wrote about the strength of their desire to become a doctor.
The interviewer will listen and visually evaluate the applicant's strengths and weaknesses.
"While the other applicants had many strengths, there wasn't one who hit the ball out of the park.
These factors included the quality of an applicant's high school (S), the strength of an applicant's high school curriculum (C), an applicant's unusual circumstances (U), an applicant's geographical residence (G) and an applicant's alumni relationships (A).
Needless to say, not all of them will accept you, so apply to several medical schools; some admissions processes may be too bureaucratic and inflexible to weigh your particular strengths against the strengths of applicants with more conventional recent histories.
Each application received points based on high school grade point average, standardized test scores, academic quality of an applicant's high school, strength or weakness of high school curriculum, in-state residency, alumni relationship, personal essay, and personal achievement or leadership.
"The president was moved by the strength of the applicants' postconviction efforts at atonement, as well as their superior citizenship and individual achievements in the years since their convictions," said Reid Cherlin, a White House spokesman.
Additional grading was based on the program directors' subjective assessments of the strength of the applicants' dean's letters, letters of recommendation, etc., relative to other applications.
A merit aid determination might be based, at least in part, on the strength of an applicant's G.P.A. or SAT score relative to the scores of fellow applicants − an unknown until deadlines pass and applications are in.
Of course, certain existing measures in the admissions process aim to assess the subjective strength of an applicant's character: interviews, essays, recommendations and arrest history among them.
