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...Harvard, where 20 percent of the students are from outside the United States, a student??s nationality does not play a role in admissions decisions...
...education is disturbingly detached. After all, is a signature the only item an admissions office needs to cast a value judgment on a candidate? For the same reasons, the new practice of outsourcing higher-education grading to companies based in Malaysia and India is troubling; the imperfections in a student??s paper cannot be fixed like a technological glitch. These trends serve as additional evidence that the increasing commoditization and impersonality of education cannot be ignored...
Once Wheeler gained acceptance to Bowdoin College and graduated from Caesar Rodney in 2005, the school “kind of lost track of him,” Fitzgerald said. But in late April of this year, the former student??s name snuck back onto the radar: the high school received an inquiry from an admissions officer at Yale, who asked Caesar Rodney to verify data on Wheeler’s transfer application...
...They were very engaged in the process. They were able to consider everything,” said Ellison about the Council’s involvement in the recently-dismissed student??s case...
...with clearly false assumptions. But the success of models lies in their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data-heavy, model-driven graduate student?? is unjustified. Perhaps in his next piece, Mr. Barbieri can suggest an alternative to restrictive modeling in understanding and predicting phenomena...