Help my friend get into Uni

[onasuma]

Hi there, swarms of friendly banter people.

A friend of mine is currently trying to secure himself an interview for a scholarship for his first choice university (BPP (http://www.bpp.com/) for those interested). For some odd reason (which I really cannot understand), they decided that the best way to decide who gets the interview is to have a vote on it.

If any of you could spare a few minutes to vote for him Id really appreciate it (and Im sure he would ask well).

Link: http://undergraduate.bpp.com/Scholarship/View-Entrant.asp?ID=3B8C890B-3C09-4A0C-97F2-84A575375213

Thanks a bunch.

[Force]

Happy to help :) Done.

[CrimsonAngel]

Hope he gets in! I wonder why they're having a vote though. What if the person trying to get in his a popular webcomic or something?

[rayne_dragon]

That vote thing is a bit weird... still, I suppose it is a democratic way of doing things. It just, unfortunately, seems more like a high-stakes popularity contest.

[Comet]

Voted.

Seems a bit weird, as said. But hey, at least they had an e-mail verification system in place, which makes the whole thing a bit less of a eyebrow raiser.
Still weird, though. Still, whatever it takes, right?

[Ruik]

Done :smallsmile:

[pinwiz]

I suppose the vote thing makes sense if you look at it like this: business people thrive on good reputations. The better and more widely you're known the better your business will do, which is why marketing is valuable. So I suppose what the vote is determining is, how well can you make yourself noticed and how good is your reputation.

Though it should be noted that all I know of this school is looking at their website and the wikipedia page, but it seems to be a business school so I think the idea is to gague your skill at gaining a good reputation.

[SurlySeraph]

That vote thing is a bit weird... still, I suppose it is a democratic way of doing things. It just, unfortunately, seems more like a high-stakes popularity contest.

Oh, I'd call it more of a networking-skill contest than a popularity contest. :smalltongue:
"Who can get the most people to vote for him?" isn't a bad criterion for law school scholarships. It's a good proxy for persuasiveness and likability, both important traits for lawyers. Deciding who gets a scholarship via online vote is certainly untraditional, fairly arbitrary, and vulnerable to abuse (like, say, having a third party ask random strangers on the Internet to vote for a contestant), but I can see why someone would think it was a good idea.

Anyway, I voted for him.

[arguskos]

Done. Happy to help out a guy get into a university. :smallcool: Hope he makes it.

[Flame of Anor]

Voted. :)

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[Seonor]

Voted, but with my adress that I use to collect spambots. The privacy policy says exactly nothing, other than that they can do anything they want with every piece of data they collect.

I wonder what verified e-mail adresses of would-be-layers cost today?

[onasuma]

Thanks to all of you.

Im not entirely sure about how or why the voting works, but they did it last year as well and it worked ok then.

[Mikhailangelo]

The system seems to be, in my opinion, fairly stupid. But that's no slight against your friend, so I voted anyway :)

[Mina Kobold]

Done!

Happy to help someone reach their dreams. :smallsmile:

[Lillith]

Voted. Good luck for your friend, I hope he'll get the interview. :smallwink:

[onasuma]

More thanks to all you lovely people. He's third at the moment, needs to be in the top 5 in 8 hours time, so we're optimistic.

[GrlumpTheElder]

I remember the problems I had getting to uni here in England (am there now - Bradford FTW).

One vote from me :smallsmile:

[onasuma]

Thanks to all of you - he ended up in the top 5 so gets the interview he wanted. Odd system, but it worked in his favour.

[Ruik]

Thanks to all of you - he ended up in the top 5 so gets the interview he wanted. Odd system, but it worked in his favour.
Glad to hear read it!

[d13]

Oh... I went and voted anyway. One more vote isn't going to hurt (!) xD

[Skeppio]

Thanks to all of you - he ended up in the top 5 so gets the interview he wanted. Odd system, but it worked in his favour.

Awesome! :smallbiggrin: