In the meantime, it could be an uncomfortable summer for some college admissions officers.
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College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.
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Most racial preferences -- for example, in college admissions -- are shrouded in secrecy and dishonesty.
College admissions officers are indeed learning to interact with students where they hang out: online.
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"We thought it was appalling what happened, " said Girard College Admissions Director Tamara Leclair.
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The college admissions process is more selective than ever, so it's crucial to make your application stand out.
Many Cambridge college admissions tutors say that the grade predictions for state- and private-school applicants seem equally erratic.
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But critics say that the test's emphasis on memorization, fact recall and processing speed can determine college admissions too arbitrarily.
Vetting by using social-media sites including Facebook and Twitter still hovers in a gray zone at most college admissions offices.
Put your political preferences aside and accept a cold, hard truth of the selective college admissions world: diversity is a reality.
Such a decline did in fact occur during the 1960s and 1970s in average scores on the SAT, a college admissions test.
Parents looking to set up play dates with international kids in hopes their soon-to-be-trilingual-kids will get the early edge in college admissions.
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One of best-kept secrets in college admissions this coming year is that many top state universities will be admitting more out-of-state applicants than they ever have.
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Rising high school graduation rates translate into a crush on college admissions offices, notes Brian Bethune, an economist at Global Insight, a consultancy in Waltham, Mass.
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Color-conscious college admissions policies heading for the Supreme Court again.
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And latest figures released by the University and College Admissions Service (Ucas) confirm Nottingham has got more applications than any other in the country for the coming academic year.
My friend who works in a college admissions office offers this example: A high school kid submits a transcript pock-marked with As and Cs, while another posts solid Bs.
Unless the Supreme Court decides to revisit their 2003 decisions in Grutter and Gratz, diversity is going to be the norm in college admissions especially at selective private colleges.
This conversation offers rare access to the world of selective college admissions as it takes you inside the office at both an Ivy League university and a flagship state university.
My long-time colleague, Lloyd Paradiso, who lives in Philadelphia, has been immersed in college admissions consulting for over 35 years, and called me as soon as he read the article.
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Out of both curiosity and personal interest (I have a son in his last year of high school), I spoke with a number of college admissions experts to get some advice.
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Recently I invited Ted Spencer of the University of Michigan and Eric Furda of the University of Pennsylvania to join me in the Forbes library for a discussion on college admissions.
Katzman also had high hopes for college admissions services.
Now, you have to know Lloyd, he is passionate about college admissions and few people can read a list about college commitments and derive any insight from it, let alone any excitement.
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Behind Global Citizen Year is a mission of creating a new generation of leaders for addressing global development challenges, an idea that Falik markets to graduating seniors, their parents, and college admissions officers.
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As the Supreme Court makes another foray into the mess of confusing and contradictory rulings over the constitutionality of race-based college admissions, one has to wonder how much longer such divisive policies can hang on.
While it may seem a bit strange, I really enjoyed the college admissions process and ended up helping advise a few friends who were from lower-income families on their options as we went through the process.
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