Despite all the “draconian” cuts to the budget that supposedly have UNC staffers working day and night to handle the extra work forced on them by layoffs, it seems that Chapel Hill’s admissions staff has plenty of time to waste. Jay Matthews of the Washington Post waxes glowingly about a research study done by a couple of UNC admissions people, for which male applicants were asked to make a collage of pictures about their expectations of college. This supposedly yielded deep insights into the young men’s minds. Yet there is no mention of any of the guys including pictures from Playboy’s “Girls of the ACC” or other, similar fare in their collages. I therefore doubt that they got the true picture of what 17- and 18-year-old men expect from their college experience.
Matthews also recommends doing away with SATs and essay tests on applications, which are “so 1997.” He doesn’t quite recommend replacing them with finger-painting, but perhaps the thought just didn’t occur to him.
