Here’s how Penn, like many other Universities, is using Big Data to recruit new students

04/20/2017
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(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 […]

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Penn is offering an online course about how to apply to college

11/22/2016
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(The Daily Pennsylvanian) By Julia Bell Penn is looking to expand its online learning to an unexpected demographic: high school students. The Penn Admissions office and Steppingstone Scholars, a Philadelphia-based academic enrichment program that helps underrepresented students, partnered to create a new online course: “How to Apply to College.” The course, which will be offered for free […]

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