How Admissions Directors at Penn and Michigan Think About Test Scores
By JACQUES STEINBERG
How does an admissions office like the one at theUniversity of Pennsylvania or the University of Michigan weigh an applicant’s standardized test scores?
I asked the deans of each institution that question in recent interviews recorded for a coming online course, “Introduction to College Admissions,” that I helped create with my colleagues at The New York Times Knowledge Network.
In the first of two excerpts, above, Eric Furda, the dean of admission at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that “it will surprise people how quickly