Pressure to Build the Class: Past Survey of College Admissions Directors

(Inside Higher Ed) By Scott Jaschik — The pressure on college admissions offices to produce a new class is getting more intense, according to the 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admissions Directors. And the percentage of colleges that met their goals by May 1, the traditional date by which colleges aim to have created their […]

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The Trump effect in college admissions

By Nick Anderson (Washington Post).  A sizable share of college admission directors say they have intensified efforts to recruit in rural areas and find more white students from low-income families following Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the 2016 presidential election, according to a survey from the online news outlet Inside Higher Ed. The 2016 election and […]

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