“As technology has evolved, I’ve begun to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into my workflow. However, when it comes to recommendations, that is a delicate process. Teachers and counselors know the key personal details about students that can make a real difference in the application process. While I use AI tools in some parts of my […]
“Researchers in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science compared 30,000 college application essays written by humans to ones written by eight popular large language models (LLMs), AI models that process and generate text, like ChatGPT. Even when they specified a person’s race, gender and geographic location in the prompt, the models […]
“Each expert also gave the reminder for educators and students to check first with both high school and college AI policies. Colleges are mixed on allowing students to use AI in their applications, with some encouraging it while others outright ban its usage.”
“The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine school counselors’ beliefs about the major benefits associated with college attendance. Study findings indicated school counselors focused on students’ individual benefits rather than broader societal impacts associated with college attendance. Participants identified four salient categories of benefits associated with college attendance, including career preparation, financial gains, […]
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“California will ban private colleges and universities, including some of the nation’s most selective institutions, from giving special consideration to applicants who have family or other connections to the schools, a practice known as legacy preferences.”
“About a third of high school seniors who applied to college in the 2023-24 school year acknowledged using an AI tool for help in writing admissions essays, according to research released this month by foundry10, an organization focused on improving learning.”
“He’s a moderator for three college-admissions forums on Reddit, including one of Reddit’s largest communities about the topic, called ApplyingToCollege, which has 1.1 million users.”
“Everyone knows Oxford and Cambridge and the Ivy League institutions, but do they know that UCL, MIT and Delft University of Technology have the top three architecture programmes in the world? Do they know that Princeton University isn’t one of the top 10 universities in computer science? Do they know that Bocconi University in Milan, […]
“To explore those questions — and how much racial diversity is possible without “race-conscious” admissions — the Upshot worked with Sean Reardon, a professor at Stanford, and Demetra Kalogrides, a senior researcher there, to model four alternatives to affirmative action.”
“This FairTest report both deconstructs and responds to the New York Times “news analysis” on admissions testing policies AND presents a collection of studies, data, arguments, and resources in support of test optional/test free college admissions.”
“Most published rankings are one-size-fits-all, based on formulas that don’t factor in your priorities, goals and needs. So we’ve created a tool to help find the best American colleges — for you. Do you care most about making money after graduating? Low college costs? Diversity? Academics or athletics? Staying close to home? Use our tool’s […]
“The Education Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s legacy admissions policy, inserting the federal government directly into a fierce national debate about wealth, privilege and race after the Supreme Court gutted the use of affirmative action in higher education… The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights has powerful enforcement authority that […]
“[ChatGPT:] Write a college essay explaining why stubbing my toe in 4th grade gave me the desired character to become a neurosurgeon. Make it a good essay, not too stuffy, and mention my background as a child of carnies as a reason why I have overcome adversity.”
“We have designed our application to afford the greatest possible opportunity and flexibility for students to represent themselves fully and showcase their academic talents, interests and goals.”
“In the fall, the college plans to consider some students who haven’t actually applied for admission at all. They will be students who have created profiles through Sage Scholars, which has offered a service since 1995 to help students afford college. This year, in addition to presenting students whom colleges might want to recruit to apply, […]
“Our research shows standardized tests help us better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants.”
“We are enrolling one of the most academically accomplished and diverse classes in our history. I’m certain there will be much scrutiny over the academic performance of this class in their first year, but I would encourage anyone analyzing that data to recognize the overlapping impact of COVID on these students—both in their junior and […]
“Myth 2: Acceptance to college is a game of tiny percentages, in which only a very few applicants get in. Fact: The average acceptance rate for four-year colleges in the U.S. has hovered around 65% for more than a decade. Which means that there are sufficient spaces for many more students than are currently enrolled in higher education.”
“Roughly 90 percent of people do not pay the full price. They get some kind of a discount. The number families will actually pay varies widely depending on how desperate a particular institution is to put heads in beds and whether it’s particularly desperate for some kinds of people more than others… There is the […]
“The strength of first-year students’ grades in all their high school courses — and grades they earned in college prep classes — were the most influential factors for administrators, the association found… Slightly fewer than half of colleges and universities that responded to survey… believe the two tests are considerably important in admissions.”
“The admissions officer also received a link to a private profile of the student, listing all 27 pages she had viewed on the school’s website and how long she spent on each one. A map on this page showed her geographical location, and an “affinity index” estimated her level of interest in attending the school.”
“[This report] offers guidelines for high schools and parents in promoting ethical character. It also describes how some high schools and colleges are working to promote greater ethical engagement among high school students, level the playing field for economically disadvantaged students, and reduce excessive achievement pressure. The report also includes a pioneering statement from admissions […]
“All applicants to Harvard are ranked on a scale of one to six based on their academic qualifications, and athletes who scored a four were accepted at a rate of about 70 percent. Yet the admit rate for nonathletes with the same score was 0.076 percent—nearly 1,000 times lower.”
[From the comments:] “The fact that [anyone] can call themselves a college essay consultant belies the article’s entire premise that there is anything authentic left in the college application process.”
My findings revealed that white admissions counselors were, on average, 26 percent less likely to respond to the emails of black students whose interests and involvements focused on anti-racism and racial justice… I focus my solutions on what institutions can do, not how black students should comport themselves to fit into a white environment.”
“Underrepresented students are less likely to take admissions tests more than once. Encouraging them to retake tests — as many of their high-income, white and Asian-American peers do — could close a substantial portion of the income and racial gap in enrollment at four-year colleges. That’s the conclusion of a working paper released on Monday”
“Nearly one in five full-time freshmen drop out. Conditional admission gives universities a line on applicants ready to start as sophomores, filling the resulting empty seats and beds and keeping tuition coming in.”
“Instead of focusing on who from the margins is able to get in, we would do better to direct our attention to the fundamental ways selective admissions and educational institutions maintain the privileges of whiteness.”
The Justice Department is reportedly investigating possible antitrust violations by a number of elite colleges related to the sharing of information between them to enforce the terms of their early-admissions programs.”
In the spring of 2017, Dartmouth College, a small ivy league school in New Hampshire, offered 2,021 waitlist spots to applicants. Of the 1,345 who chose to stay on the waitlist, not a single person got in.”
“I have a child who’s a junior in high school, which means that everywhere I go, people want to talk about one thing: college.”
“A disciplinary action associated with meaningful, peaceful participation in a protest will not negatively impact their admissions decision, because we would not view it as inappropriate or lacking integrity on its face.”
“As spooky decorations go, skeletons are ho-hum. But a glow-in-the-dark skeleton typing a college-application essay? That I just had to see. It all began on Wednesday morning, when a friend emailed me after spotting a house that was still decked out for Halloween. Its theme, she knew, was right up my alley: the horrors of […]