This is because these are characteristics that among students at the same institution are likely to vary more than test scores do, and because, if the admissions officers have done their job well, they have identified the "compensating virtues" among applicants with below-average scores, as Princeton apparently did in the case of Sonia Sotomayor.
The chair position has also been advertised with a salary of £100,000, £10,000 less than Fairhead earned and far below what most qualified applicants could find in other roles.
Examples 1a and 1b below illustrate how the applicants in both divisions summarize their past research experiences.
After 2003, however, the number of K08 awards declined at a faster rate than the number of applications, and applicant success rates fell below 40% from 2004 through 2007.
Officials from the East Brooklyn Congregations help applicants secure mortgages with below-market interest rates.
Age matching variables refer to whether the applicant's age is below, within, or above the requested age range.
Experience matching variables refer to whether the applicant's experience is below, 0 2 years above, or more than 3 years above the requested experience level.
UPS Store franchises of United Parcel Service require only a $7,500 initial cash investment, but the company screens out applicants with a net worth below $150,000 and lacking less than $50,000 in cash or liquid assets.
The total of 580,000 – a figure which included all UK, EU and international applicants – remains slightly below the peak of 583,000 applicants seen in 2011, when students rushed to beat the fee rise.
As Daniel Golden, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, explains in his new book "The Price of Admission," Ivy League college presidents, admissions deans, and trustees spend a great deal of time and effort soliciting these lucky students, many of whom are admitted with S.A.T. scores three or four hundred points below those of some rejected applicants.
