Except that a well rounded student body is much better than a carbon copy one. If you take the top X% of applicants just on grades, you may get booksmart people, but people who are unmotivated, or are only doing this for money, or some other undesirable trait. By looking at a wide array of traits in admissions, you can bring in the students that weren't as great on GPAs and tests, but may actually be more productive to the academic environment. It is far more desirable to have people in the school that weren't as highly qualified, but have more motivation or better personal goals than people who were qualified but do nothing but regurgitate what was in the textbook and do not think. |