My roommate would be a good person. (Kind of like my answer to whether or not I like opera - if it’s good music, we’re on a good part, the story’s not too twisted and roundabout, the singers are good and I like the composer.) He would enjoy many sports and athletic act ivies as I do. He would enjoy many types of music as I do. He would enjoy eating pancakes as I do. He would be talkative because I don’t say too much. It doesn’t really matter - I could room with anyone.
Short Answer Question #4. Those of us in admissions are often asked which two or three things in a student's application we give the greatest weight to. If you were in our shoes, which two or three things in an application would you give the greatest weight to? Explain why.
There are no parts of the college application that deserve more weight than the Social Security number or the type of zip code given.
A person’s social security number is unique - and uniqueness counts. Any number of people can have the same birth date or grades or school or test scores. NO TWO PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
There are two types of people - those who use the five digit ZIP code and those who use the nine digit ZIP code (ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan). People who list their ZIP codes as nine digits should not be let into college (I know, I do it sometimes too. It’s O.K. for businesses, large corporations and schools like yourself to do it, but normal people? I don’t think so - unless they work for the United States Postal Service). Some people are too ingrained into details that they forget the world around them.
Other than these two issues, the rest (essays, recommendations, scores, transcript, activities) should be weighted equally. A student who can write but has not taken the time to do well in other things is not too promising.
So, maybe third in line should be the completeness
of the application (this time, as in how well-rounded the person is).
[There's Princeton, REJECTED from Princeton, though]