Colleges promoting "holistic" admissions policies. Holistic is newspeak for subjective.

[RandomPoster]

What Do Colleges Mean by Holistic Admissions?

Most of the country's most selective colleges have holistic admissions, but what does this mean? You'll need more than just good grades and test scores.

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"If a college has holistic admissions, the school's admissions officers consider the whole applicant, not just empirical data like one's GPA or SAT scores. Colleges with a holistic admissions policy are not simply looking for students with good grades. They want to admit interesting students who will contribute to the campus community in meaningful ways."

Notice the focus on subjective qualities such as "interesting" and "meaningful". There is simply no way to measure these qualities. Making the process more subjective conveniently makes it easier for the progressives to simply do whatever they want and rationalize their decision afterwards. Notice how they mask their true intention with word games and misdirection. They focus on the word "whole" as in holistic and say they want to consider all the qualities of a student, which implies that anyone who disagrees is narrow-minded and then use this to distract from their actual goal, which is re-directing focus onto whatever they want to focus on, as opposed to inconvenient objective facts.

"Under a holistic admissions policy, a student with a 3.8 GPA might be turned down while an award-winning trumpet player with a 3.0 GPA might get accepted. The student who wrote a stellar essay might get preference over the student who had higher ACT scores but a bland essay. In general, holistic admissions take into account a student's interests, passions, special talents and personality."

In addition to the previously mentioned subjective, as opposed to objective, nature of such a policy, there also seems to be an effort on the part of the over-socialized to try to turn everything in life into a popularity contest.

 

[Mac-7]

What Do Colleges Mean by Holistic Admissions?

Most of the country's most selective colleges have holistic admissions, but what does this mean? You'll need more than just good grades and test scores.

www.thoughtco.com

"If a college has holistic admissions, the school's admissions officers consider the whole applicant, not just empirical data like one's GPA or SAT scores. Colleges with a holistic admissions policy are not simply looking for students with good grades. They want to admit interesting students who will contribute to the campus community in meaningful ways."

Notice the focus on subjective qualities such as "interesting" and "meaningful". There is simply no way to measure these qualities. Making the process more subjective conveniently makes it easier for the progressives to simply do whatever they want and rationalize their decision afterwards. Notice how they mask their true intention with word games and misdirection. They focus on the word "whole" as in holistic and say they want to consider all the qualities of a student, which implies that anyone who disagrees is narrow-minded and then use this to distract from their actual goal, which is re-directing focus onto whatever they want to focus on, as opposed to inconvenient objective facts.

"Under a holistic admissions policy, a student with a 3.8 GPA might be turned down while an award-winning trumpet player with a 3.0 GPA might get accepted. The student who wrote a stellar essay might get preference over the student who had higher ACT scores but a bland essay. In general, holistic admissions take into account a student's interests, passions, special talents and personality."

In addition to the previously mentioned subjective, as opposed to objective, nature of such a policy, there also seems to be an effort on the part of the over-socialized to try to turn everything in life into a popularity contest.

Everyone is welcome at US colleges except white males

 

[harmonica]

..blacks get in with worse grades---and they still complain = jackasses

 

[RandomPoster]

To me, the main problem is the whole concept of "holistic" data itself wherever it is applied. It simply looks like a way to make analysis more subjective.

 

[MarathonMike]

What Do Colleges Mean by Holistic Admissions?

Most of the country's most selective colleges have holistic admissions, but what does this mean? You'll need more than just good grades and test scores.

www.thoughtco.com

"If a college has holistic admissions, the school's admissions officers consider the whole applicant, not just empirical data like one's GPA or SAT scores. Colleges with a holistic admissions policy are not simply looking for students with good grades. They want to admit interesting students who will contribute to the campus community in meaningful ways."

Notice the focus on subjective qualities such as "interesting" and "meaningful". There is simply no way to measure these qualities. Making the process more subjective conveniently makes it easier for the progressives to simply do whatever they want and rationalize their decision afterwards. Notice how they mask their true intention with word games and misdirection. They focus on the word "whole" as in holistic and say they want to consider all the qualities of a student, which implies that anyone who disagrees is narrow-minded and then use this to distract from their actual goal, which is re-directing focus onto whatever they want to focus on, as opposed to inconvenient objective facts.

"Under a holistic admissions policy, a student with a 3.8 GPA might be turned down while an award-winning trumpet player with a 3.0 GPA might get accepted. The student who wrote a stellar essay might get preference over the student who had higher ACT scores but a bland essay. In general, holistic admissions take into account a student's interests, passions, special talents and personality."

In addition to the previously mentioned subjective, as opposed to objective, nature of such a policy, there also seems to be an effort on the part of the over-socialized to try to turn everything in life into a popularity contest.

This is already happening even if the University policy does not officially say so. My wife is faculty at a University and for the last couple years at least they have been looking at all factors including the zip codes (yes I'm not kidding) of where the students come from.