College admissions officers read application essays because they want to know the applicants personally.
I had been selected to help shape Booth's class of 2015 by reading applications and interviewing applicants.
The day-to-day functions of the scientific directors are to act as contact points for potential applicants, read around 700 applications to check for eligibility and to assign them to members of the review committee, provide support to applicants and reviewers throughout the process, and maintain close contact with the awardees.
Jerome Lucido, vice provost for enrollment and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says his first thought when hearing a presentation on Dr. Sternberg's test was: "That's exactly the information we're trying to extrapolate when we read an applicant's portfolio".
In one essay I recently read, an applicant wrote four out of five paragraphs about her grandmother and never mentioned how the teenager had immigrated to the U.S. at age 13 and was involved in a major volunteer effort to benefit other immigrants from her home country.
I once read that legacy applicants should apply E.D. if they want to be taken seriously by the parent's alma mater's admissions office.
He has also put money into ZestCash, which makes payday loans that are cheaper than the industry's average, judging risk via criteria like cellphone bills and how its applicants read the ZestCash Web site.
B2, a president of a high-technology company, had applicants read invoices or commercial documents.
Our results indicate that applicants read the website and/or flyers about the program, and used the information to write their statements.
Counselors report that some students are being admitted while others are being denied -- but many are being told their application can't be read because the applicant never submitted their ACT or SAT scores.
