two more

i'm in durham to check out duke. got two more answers -- another wait-list (for a total of four) and a yes from a school which has made such a bad impression at every turn that i had decided a good while back that i would not go.

some people/schools/businesses seem to fail to understand that when they are interacting with the public, they are always marketing -- always putting impressions out there which are not part of their official marketing efforts. schools are marketing (big time) through their admissions departments, often the primary contact prospective students have, and i really do wonder if the dean in this particular case is aware of the tone of correspondence.

now that i'm admitted, maybe i'll make an effort to tell him.

i assume this school, like most, would like to climb in the rankings. this means, among other things, attracting more strong students, since lsat scores and gpas are a big part of the comparison. in attracting strong students, as eric says, some things are hard to fix, but others are easy. to get the easy ones right, you have to know about them.

on the other hand, maybe admissions' job is just to accurately portray the school, and maybe this is what it is like, in which case, i guess i should leave the dean alone, for the sake of future students . . . ?



at the moment, i've got fun stuff to do. i'm off to get a tour of duke and see a couple of classes. i wonder if i can get credit toward my degree for all these classes!