Advisers are often needed to navigate the schools' complex admissions criteria and schmooze their registrars.
That replaced a system that allowed each of the city's 32 districts to choose its own admissions criteria.
Mr. DiStefano says CU admits every Colorado applicant who meets its admissions criteria.
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Like an elite academic institution, the SVSC has strict, performance-based admissions criteria.
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They should make sure their admissions criteria were clear and that, where interviews are still held to decide between candidates, all those involved in the selection should be suitably trained.
This is because admissions criteria are messy and composite , and take into account race with, not before or after, a multiplicity of factors including region, educational access, economic standing, resources of all types, and parental support.
The government has come under pressure to ensure all children have an equal chance of getting into the best-performing schools in the wake of its plans to create "trust" schools which would have control their own admissions criteria.
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The report, The Barriers to Choice in Public Services, looked at "whether inward-looking admissions criteria, for example by faith and super-selective schools, ought to be balanced by a broad duty to promote a social balance inside the school".
That echo was amplified in a speech by John Denham, the universities secretary, on April 8th, in which he said that universities must start to publish their admissions criteria in order to reassure critics of their absolute fairness.
Indeed Newcastle is probably ahead of the game as all universities will have to be more flexible over their admissions criteria if the government is to meet its target of 50% of under-30s experiencing higher education by the end of this decade.
That led to a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 2003, striking down the school's undergraduate admissions formula, which gave an automatic boost to minority applicants, while upholding its law-school admissions criteria, which administrators said used race as a flexible "plus factor" for certain candidates.
Some educators said that as long as standardized tests remained the sole criteria for admissions, little would change.
The central thesis that Mr Karabel draws from this history is that the universities have always determined their merit criteria according to the admissions outcomes that would suit their institutional interests, rather than the other way around.
Thanks in part to the all out assault on the record books, grossly inflated statistics, guilty admissions, drug testing and the Mitchell Report, the criteria for a Hall of Famer has been in a state of flux.
Critics of race-based admissions question whether educational institutions would serve the goals of affirmative action better by relying exclusively on non-race based criteria, such as socioeconomic status and family educational history.
The Department for Education and Skills said that, now the co-ordinated admissions scheme had been finalised, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator would decide whether or not schools could use those criteria in the coming year.
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