Perhaps we can guarantee excellent applicants by ensuring that the profession is prestigious.
Seated at a table by one of the tall, arched windows, James Keeler, the admissions tutor at Selwyn College, has perhaps the most dreaded job – reviewing candidates for medicine, a course so competitive that excellent applicants are routinely turned down.
Each year, we get far more excellent applicants than we have the capacity for, which is both a testament to the amazing work being conducted around the world and a challenging problem from a review and selection perspective.
"If there are only 10 excellent applicants, there will only be 10 awards," she says.
He explained that Princeton was losing excellent male applicants, not to mention brilliant young women.
Additionally, individual law school websites are excellent resources for applicants.
You need to be exceptional in an excellent group of applicants.
I took my committee duties seriously and used my position to help foster more diversity within my department by recommending several excellent Chinese student applicants.
When we advertise for a biology position, depending on how we word the job description (specific or general), we receive between 150 to 350 applicants, and 90percentnt of these applicants have excellent credentials.
As borough president, Mr. Stringer has ushered in an array of excellent initiatives, like screening applicants to make community boards more diverse, competent and accountable.
Faye Deal, the associate dean for admissions and financial aid at Stanford Law School, said she had read Princeton's literature on the policy and continued "to view Princeton candidates in the same fashion — strong applicants with excellent preparation".
