guru
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Post by guru on Oct 2, 2023 12:40:16 GMT -5
My son is applying this cycle. He has the credentials to get in. I hope he does. He should not get in “because” I went to GU. He should be denied “because” I went to GU. The rub is where to draw the line as to identity of applicants. Once again, your profundity knows no bounds.
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Elvado
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Post by Elvado on Oct 2, 2023 13:05:56 GMT -5
My son is applying this cycle. He has the credentials to get in. I hope he does. He should not get in “because” I went to GU. He should be denied “because” I went to GU. The rub is where to draw the line as to identity of applicants. Once again, your profundity knows no bounds. Kind of like your smug self-satisfaction…
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 2, 2023 18:27:23 GMT -5
Your understanding is not correct. What’s your understanding? I do know the legacies are reconsidered towards the end of the process. I don’t believe that under qualified legacies are admitted, maybe with some rare exceptions. I have been interviewing candidates for over 15 years. Perhaps, I’m being lied to by the admissions office representatives. None of the legacies I’ve interviewed have been admitted, zero. We should restate for the record that Jack was an admissions officer at Georgetown. He left a little while before I arrived there, first as a student employee and then as an "information officer" (i.e., lowest level staff, alternating between managing the phone room in the basement of White-Gravenor and manning the front desk. Answered several thousand emails from the guadmiss account in a year and a half's time). As you might imagine, not going to get into the exact mechanics of how the process functions. That's not because there's something nefarious to hide, but because a little opacity helps prevent gaming of the system as well as uninformed Monday morning quarterbacking. Suffice it to say: while it is fair to say - as we would often phrase it - that there is a secondary review of alumni applicants, that is not the *sole* manner in which family ties to the University are taken into account. It is also true that there are so many more qualified applicants than there are spots for admission that you could probably fill the entire class with nothing but qualified legacies.
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Bigs"R"Us
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Oct 2, 2023 19:50:34 GMT -5
No one seems to make a fuss over having Thompson, Ewing, Mourning, Mutombo, Williams kids on the basketball team, earning a free legacy ride. Sons of multimillionaires, no less. 😉
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 11, 2024 21:26:28 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Mar 11, 2024 22:13:59 GMT -5
An important development, given the stature of some of the Virginia state schools The accept rates for state schools outside Charlottesville and Williamsburg: VPI&SU (Virginia Tech) 57% James Madison 78% VMI: 80% UVA-Wise 83% Mary Washington 85% Christopher Newport 85% Longwood 87% Norfolk State 89% George Mason 90% VCU 91% Radford 93% Old Dominion 95% Virginia State 96%
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 12, 2024 7:41:16 GMT -5
An important development, given the stature of some of the Virginia state schools The accept rates for state schools outside Charlottesville and Williamsburg: VPI&SU (Virginia Tech) 57% James Madison 78% VMI: 80% UVA-Wise 83% Mary Washington 85% Christopher Newport 85% Longwood 87% Norfolk State 89% George Mason 90% VCU 91% Radford 93% Old Dominion 95% Virginia State 96% "Stature" is a concept not determined solely by the single variable of selectivity.
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DanMcQ
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 13, 2024 7:46:37 GMT -5
Duke chimes in:
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