An Uncomfortable Personal Memory and the Human Side of College Admissions
After spending 10,000 hours or more doing whatever it is you do, as Malcom Gladwell taught us, you get pretty good at it. When it comes to career educators and gatekeepers of higher education, long experience forges quick studies in distinguishing true students from grade grubbers, potential scholastic superstars from other types of high achievers. Sometime the line is blurry, however—about as often as academic and worldly success intersect. Not often, but it happens, and when it does, assessment of achievement and worthiness of admissions become blurry, too. Numbers, letter grades, and other quantifiable measuring sticks are supposed to objectify […]
