College admissions officers from the Ivies to state schools discuss their inexact methodology that determines whether a student is admitted or rejected.
All in all, we’re less selective than some of the elite schools or the Ivy League. But there are still some factors out of an applicant’s hands. One night, I got food poisoning at a restaurant in Buffalo. The next day, I rejected all the Buffalo applications. I couldn’t stomach reading them.- Current admissions officer, state university in the Northeast
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On September 12, John Maeda will be newly inaugurated as the 16th president of RISD, one of the most elite art and design colleges in the country, as well as a sister school of my alma mater Brown University. President Maeda's curriculum vitae is extraordinarily impressive, unsurprisingly for someone being asked to helm such a prestigious institution or as he called it "RISD is MIT for the right brain." For not only designers ("...he is the first designer to be appointed president of RISD, to say nothing of any college) but for Asian Americans, as Maeda is Japanese American, this is a nice moment. If this was Dave Chappelle's "Racial Draft" skit, which parodies the NBA teams' draft of college players, any "race" would be lucky to have this guy on their team!
