(Buzzfeed) by Molley Hensley-Clancy. A trove of documents created during a federal investigation into Princeton University offers an unprecedented glimpse at how elite college admissions officers talk about race. Outsiders have long debated how the secretive Ivy League admissions system considers the race of its applicants. Within the schools, such discussions form one of the […]
Read More »(The Daily Pennsylvanian) by Rebecca Lieberman. It’s well known that applications like Spotify and Netflix use Big Data to recommend music and movies. Now, colleges are using similar software, such as can be found on the Kyligence website, to target high schoolers they want to recruit. Big Data, which refers to extremely large sets of […]
Read More »(Duke Chronicle) Duke accepted 2,255 high school seniors regular decision this year, the University announced Wednesday. The University received its highest number of applicants this year, with more than 34,400 students applying for admission. Almost 31,000 applied regular decision, and 7.3 percent were accepted—a record-low acceptance rate. Another 58 students who applied early decision—but were […]
Read More »(NY Times) by Rebecca Sabky HANOVER, N.H. — When I give college information sessions at high schools, I’m used to being swarmed by students. Usually, as soon as my lecture ends, they run up to hand me their résumés, fighting for my attention so that they can tell me about their internships or summer science […]
Read More »(Buzzfeed) by Molly Hensley-Clancy. Princeton is scrambling to prevent the release of a trove of its most sensitive admissions documents, including individual student files and information about how the school judges and selects its freshman class. The data was provided to the Education Department as part of a years-long investigation, making it subject to Freedom […]
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