Does M.I.T./Yale Success = FIRST Dean's List Finalist/Winner?

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Originally Posted by Michael Blake

Hey Akash! ;-)

I AGREE, now, that "Admissions is too random to correlate to... Dean's List..."

THEN WHY does FIRST do that?!

FIRST isn't making that correlation; you are. Unless FIRST ever told you that meeting some benchmark and making the List would guarantee admission, all I've seen them do is correlate Dean's List with more interest from admissions officers. Dean's talked to many, and they say are particularly interested in these students. Truthful and transparent.

Correlating this extra interest from admissions officers with admission to the university is where the logic falls apart, but that's your logic, not FIRST's. In fact, Dean hasn't even promised it'd increase probabilities, he's just reported conversations: top schools want DLs. But there are other applicants they want; no one ever implied exclusivity. Tradeoffs are necessary: MIT didn't take 1,620 students because #1,621 wasn't very interesting; they took 1,620 because that's what their cutoff is.