Business Week recently published a special edition competition issue. In one section there was a list of Type A organizations.
Boeing, Latter-Day Saints, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Microsoft, Nike, Navy Seals, Nokia and Toyota were nine such organizations.
There was one university on the list - Harvard College.
Harvard, it seems, fights hard to attract the very best students to its hallowed halls.
Harvard sends out some 70,000 letters to high school juniors who have already showed promise = high SAT scores.
After that 8,000 alumni are dispatched to identify and interview potential applicants.
Current Harvard students and profs are also enlisted to unearth diamond students.
In 2006, these efforts produced 23,000 hopefuls. "I mean, I got a letter, and a visit and an interview and I am a straight A student," says Kathy Classroom.
Only 9% of the 23,000 got accepted. Still of that 9% not everyone goes - the $45 price tag is one thing that scares them off.
Dean of admissions for Harvard sends a second group of Harvard Seals to get as many committments as possible from the 9%. This past year - 80% - the elite of the elite.
Sounds pretty type - A to me, and a college at that.
What do you think?
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