Admissions Tutor
- Who they are
- An academic who chooses applicants for one course and teaches the students they admit.
- Decides
- Offer
- Wins them
- Genuine intellectual engagement with the subject, shown through what the applicant has explored, thought or argued.
- Reflection: what they took from an experience, not just that they had it.
- Loses them
- Clichés and declared passion without evidence.
- Lists of achievements unrelated to the subject.
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