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In Praise Of Holistic Admissions | MIT Admissions

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One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each other. It is, properly constituted, an environment which fosters intellectual, ideological, and social cross-pollination. You need diversity – broadly defined – for college to matter. I hope that this quote is somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a “socializing institution”, I didn’t mean that it’s a place to idly chat with people (although it is that). I mean it is an environment within which one undergoes socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the class, because whom it is composed of will greatly affect your experience within it. This leads me to another point I’d like to discuss, which is the importance of the idea of “holistic admissions.” We have a holistic admissions process here at MIT, and we talk about it a lot. But what does it mean? Wh

In Praise Of Holistic Admissions by Chris Peterson SM '13 not an admissions machine October 20, 2011 in About Decisions , Admissions , Best of the Blogs In last week’s blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the following quote: One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each other. It is, properly constituted, an environment which fosters intellectual, ideological, and social cross-pollination. You need diversity – broadly defined &

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