"He was the brightest applicant in a sea of jewels.
"This young woman could be one of the brightest applicants in the pool but there are several references to shyness," read one.
In the United States, where most universities are private and tuition fees are high, scholarships based on merit are often awarded to the brightest applicants to encourage them to attend a particular school.
I completely agree with the words of a career counselor at CU-Boulder wroterote some years ago that businesses of all kinds — large, small, for profit, non-profit, government, and academic — are in on-going need of young, bright applicants who fill these conditions.
The school is already highly ranked and will surely attract even more of the nation's brightest applicants.
It argues this is essential to prevent "overstayers", who use studying as an excuse to remain and work in the country, but some institutions have complained that the change makes it harder to attract bright applicants, who opt to go elsewhere.
Derek Bok once said,"We must also ask ourselves whether it is enough to offer a Harvard education to the brightest applicants without asking how their talents will be used.
"There are fantastic bright motivated applicants to study medicine.
For a few job categories, like computer systems analysts, there are relatively few "good fits" among American applicants, Bright found.
The fast-growing professional services firm is always on the lookout for bright young job applicants and its stall is a regular fixture at many universities on the "milk round" recruitment circuit.
Far from being an afterthought for the Harvard / Stanford / Wharton hopefuls, we've witnessed the school's distinct appeal to the brightest and the best in the MBA applicant pool.
