When evaluating applications, we ask ourselves whether students have taken advantage of what their setting offers.
The Treasury Department says it needs to hire a four-person staff -- including an executive director, legal counsel and an industry expert -- to help the board evaluate applications.
Those involved in evaluating applications have learned, they said, to turn themselves off a little bit, like doctors in an emergency room.
But after 26 years of evaluating applications at four competitive colleges, I know that the SAT is but one factor in selection, and not requiring it emphasizes that.
In 2010, after taking several years to evaluate applications, the B.L.M. started approving solar projects on a case-by-case basis.
In the past, bank officers evaluated applications themselves or in committee, but with many applications now being taken over the telephone by a telemarketer, FICO scores have become more important.
Next month, the drug agency is scheduled to convene a panel of scientific experts to evaluate applications from two drug manufacturers, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb, to make low-dose versions of their anti-cholesterol pills available without a prescription.
It has taken four years for the department to set up a system to evaluate applications and determine how much the borrowers will be charged for the guarantees to compensate the government for taking the risk.
Even more striking was a 2005 experiment in which participants evaluated applications for a job as chief of police, scanning résumés that indicated varying levels of formal education and on-the-job experience.
"We're content-neutral when evaluating applications for events in parks, whether they be of a religious, political or cultural nature," Vickie Karp, a spokeswoman for the department, said.
