It's anecdotal on both ends (the "overqualifed" people rejected and the

Jul 19, 2018
4:50:23pm

Pasadena All-American

"unqualified" people accepted) and then confirmed (kind of . . . ) by the admissions office in their discussions with people who have questioned this year's results.

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What is the Church's purpose for having BYU?

Carnac

7/19/18 1:52pm

To produce worthy members who pay tithing

snowbird

7/19/18 1:54pm

I heard another GA say a similar thing about all BYU

Monomachos

7/19/18 1:59pm

There are several:

mudpupper

7/19/18 2:00pm

I think 1 is no longer a real "mission"

CougarVeteran

7/19/18 7:35pm

That's interesting because I'm not sure I saw any

stoils

7/19/18 2:02pm

My father, back in the 90s, "worked" for the Marriott school for this

CougarVeteran

7/19/18 7:37pm

But the church seemingly planned for carrying out its purposes to all students

Pasadena

7/19/18 2:15pm

The percentage of students with lower grades won't "shake up" BYU.

Cougarrr

7/19/18 2:34pm

That's not really what we saw in the last admissions cycle though. We saw 3.4

Pasadena

7/19/18 3:07pm

Are those numbers just from a few anecdotes, or have you seen data?

Cougarrr

7/19/18 3:52pm

It's anecdotal on both ends (the "overqualifed" people rejected and the

Pasadena

7/19/18 4:50pm

It's not a major scrambling of admissions, they just want to admit kids who are

califcougar

7/19/18 2:46pm

Yes, to the extent that is what actually happens. There were some weird things

Pasadena

7/19/18 3:11pm

"Ensure"

displacedute

7/19/18 2:46pm

Good job.

displacedute

7/19/18 3:18pm

Thanks for checking

Pasadena

7/19/18 3:20pm

RE: Thanks for checking

displacedute

7/19/18 3:30pm

That was Ziggy’s plan but Bronco kept pestering him to tryout and Ziggy caved.

Q-grr

7/19/18 2:48pm

To perfect the saints.

RugbyCoug

7/19/18 3:04pm

Founded to provide rural kids an education and opportunity for marriage.

Y-Zag

7/19/18 7:39pm

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