Who's Your Daddy?

[Herbert Spencer]

Is it worth his applying—the low grades, the low SATs, the shoplifting, do those things disqualify him from the start?
I don't think they necessarily disqualify him off the bat. Is this someone who's able to show redemption? The admissions process is a very holistic process. We look at you from your grades to your recommendations to what you've shown that you're capable of doing. We don't see it as a one-factor kind of thing. If you want to say, "I want a second chance to prove that I'm a better person than what my records show," then I think they're willing to look at you in that sense and say, "Okay, we're gonna give you this chance."

If Groucho Marx ran a university:

Say the secret word and get a college degree.  Tonight the secret word is "redemption."  (Secret word must be accompanied by a check or money order.)

Oh wait, that's right, he did run a university...