Creativity

One of the topics we debate in this class is whether or not creativity should be considered in admissions decisions. This week in my Professional Writing class we had a guest speaker who graduated from Elizabethtown. She now works as a graphic designer and is involved in hiring new employees at her company. When she was describing to us the hiring process she told us one of their favorite questions to ask employees is "If you could take down any animal with only your bare hands what would it be?" This sounds like a bizarre interview question. She explained that they use this question so often because it gives them a feel for their potential employee's creativity and personality.

This got me thinking about the upcoming topic in our class. Obviously, creativity is an attractive quality in employees not just for art or design but for problem solving as well. If employers are looking at creativity it would make sense that college admissions would consider it as well. Since the point of college is to educate us to get a good job it would make sense to emphasize the same thing as employers. 

However, I do think this would get very complicated. It would be hard to actually implement a certain creativity component to all the things admissions considers. For example, would creativity majors such as art and music take creativity into consideration more than other majors? If a student has mediocre grades but it extremely talented in terms of creativity what does that mean? I think it would be challenging to find a good balance between the things expected from students when applying to colleges.