Enrollment Builders
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Being down in enrollment causes panic for any admissions executive. During this stressful time, any number of thoughts run through your head. You’ve either heard it said or thought to yourself: “If we had more leads at the top of the funnel, we would have hit our goals.” Sure, because more in equals more out, right?
Othot
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Nothing unites a campus like course registration. If this little-known slogan sounds unfamiliar to you, it could be because (A) I just made it up and (B) there’s an opportunity for you and your colleagues to put student scheduling under the microscope.
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College Planner Pro
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Different paths on the journey to self-knowledge and enlightenment We’ve all probably “wished we knew then, what we know now” at least a few times in our lives. Especially when it comes to decisions that, in hindsight, we might have approached differently had we had the benefit of insights into our skills, talents, abilities, aptitudes, and preferences.
Enrollify
OCTOBER 20, 2021
“I’m kind of shocked you did this experiment on your students,” Steve Rolston, chair of the physics department at the University of Maryland, stated during a talk with the creators of machine-learning system GRADE. “You seem to have built a model that builds in whatever bias your committee had in 2013 and you’ve been using it ever since.”. Rolston’s comment was cited in a recent article from Inside Higher Ed exploring bias among admissions algorithms and the University of Texas’s decision to sto
Enrollment Builders
OCTOBER 18, 2021
As the person ultimately responsible for ensuring enrollment growth at your institution, you will be challenged with “defending” and advancing any changes to existing plans. You may find yourself wondering. "What will leadership (and my team) want to know about my plan to introduce a Contact Center partnership ?". Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could guess what questions might be asked of you before these presentations?
The College Solutions Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Applying early decision to college is often a highly effective way to increase the odds of getting accepted at many schools that offer this admission option. At plenty of colleges, applying early action can also boost admission odds. Not surprisingly then, teenagers are increasingly applying early decision and early action to schools and the pandemic helped escalate this trend.
Admissions Madness
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Admissions professionals prefer to pat each others’ backs at exclusive conferences and virtue signal superficial support for marginalized demographics on social media and woke press releases. Even the best collection of the world’s most thoughtful and conscientious higher education professionals and admissions counselors participating in a broken admissions system will still produce unintended consequences that damage society more than they help.
Admissions Madness
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Some things never change, and elite universities are no different. College admissions is rife with a bias for the status quo. We exhibit an implicit preference for a system whose alternatives are impossible to imagine, also known as system justification. Politicians will not reform a system that benefits their offspring and helps fill their staff. Parents with multiple children start to suspect something is off once their youngest finishes applying.
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