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Colleges in a new admissions-application consortium want an alternative to the Common Application’s “diluted brand.”
Colleges are pushing one another to send counselors from public high schools to a major admissions conference, expenses paid.
Despite their dominance in college enrollments over all, women have been underrepresented at the most-selective institutions for decades. A new study set out to discover why.
The Vermont college’s “Dimensional Application” will allow students to submit work that demonstrates their achievements and abilities. What they send is up to them.
At a national conference last week, admissions officials offered nuanced appraisals of the profession that keeps higher education’s lights on.
The change will allow institutions that don’t ask applicants to submit essays or recommendations to join the 549 colleges that use the online admission form.
Goucher College’s new admissions policy lets prospective students hang their hopes on a two-minute video rather than a high-school transcript. Does that give admissions officers enough to work with?
Starting this fall, the liberal-arts college in Maryland will offer an application option in which a videotaped response will be the primary factor in admissions evaluations.
The service that was used to submit 3.3 million college applications last year looks to rebound from a difficult cycle.
Sallie Mae’s latest report draws on a survey whose respondents can be divided into four groups: Procrastinators, American Dreamers, Reluctant Borrowers, and Determineds.