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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher
Just give it your best shot - what is there to lose?
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The loss is poor participation on the part of teams. If there is poor participation then you get a low statistical sampling and at least in the beginning Dean's list will not be recruiting the best in student leadership.
There are thousands of fine student leaders and unfortunately only a tiny fraction of them will get submitted, I fear.
If the point is to exercise teams speedy response to requests then we can call it Dean's speedy test.
If the point is to identify and recruit highly committed and talented individuals to carry FIRST into the future then we have a whole new ball game.
I'm going out on a limb a little bit but I'd venture to say there is a fair amount of frustration out there about the timing and the cut off time for the event. 4:30 pm EST is particularly mysterious. What does that do for the west coast and Hawaii ?
Dean's list is a great concept but the execution this year leaves a lot to be desired.
My team has been hammered this week handling other issues. In spite of getting hammered we didn't get enough sleep and still got the essays done only to be denied by the early cutoff time.
Most of the time things work out. Sometime you just flat out run out of gas.
Such is life.