“The process effectively takes half the country and says, ‘You’re just spectators.’”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School
of Communication, on how presidential campaigns target some states but
not others because of the Electoral College (The Boston Globe,
Aug. 25)
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)