"We are talking about making a subtle but significant change in the diversity of our applicant group".
The thoughtfulness of our applicant pool together with our expanding recruitment outreach has given us a great opportunity to build on the admitted Early Decision, Questbridge, and Likely cohorts.
If we knew how to spot the 25% of our applicant pool with the best combination of determination, interest and skills to become an outstanding scientist, all of the reasons articulated by Alberts et al. and Bourne might make it sensible to decrease the size of our incoming cohort.
We actually turned down 30percentt of our applicants last fall".
SAT scores are not entirely out of the picture, since 91percentt of our applicants still choose to submit them.
At the same time, Hult found that "an increasing portion of our applicants weren't interested in consulting or investment banking," Dr. Hodges said.
In a letter to schools and colleges, Dr Sam Lucy, the university's director of admissions, backed-up the introduction of the new tests, insisting they would provide "valuable additional evidence of our applicants' academic abilities".
Rachel Tufft, associate director of admissions at the Manchester business school, says: "About 25% of our applicants are women, and about 25% of the people on the programme are women, so they're just as successful as men at getting in - they're simply not choosing to do MBAs in such large numbers".
In a letter to schools and colleges, Dr Sam lucy, the university's director of admissions, said the tests would provide "valuable additional evidence of our applicants' academic abilities, knowledge base and potential to succeed in the Cambridge course for which they have applied".
As I've noted in an earlier post, when we say that the process is holistic, we mean it is designed to discover all the potential qualities of our applicants, qualities that we know cannot be assessed by evaluating just academic grades or standardized scores, although these are important components of an application.
Table 2 presents the call back rates of our applicants.
