The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2023

In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will rule about whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions, deciding two cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. Eight of the 10 flagships with the biggest gaps for Black students do not consider race in admissions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

And this admissions year has the added complication of being the first since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision barring colleges from considering race as a factor in admissions, along with being a time of rapidly changing rules around whether standardized test scores is required for admission.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

EdSurge recently connected with Ahn to hear her key takeaways from the book, and about how cognitive biases can impact educational systems such as college admissions. There’s one example in your book about admissions committees for a college and how they interpret GPAs. There are many reasons why fake news happens.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

My acceptance to Wesleyan came at a time when race could still be considered in college admissions, before the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, effectively ending an avenue of hope for Black and Latino groups. To ignore race in college admissions will not erase the race problem that plagues our nation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The end of affirmative action has triggered a reconsideration of legacy admissions. Legacy admissions began to get more attention after the Department of Education initiated a civil rights investigation in July 2023 into Harvard’s legacy practice. Donors are the engine that drive legacy admissions. They can end them swiftly.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

News and World Report ranking of public high schools. That’s because the current admissions system leaves out nearly all of the Black and Hispanic students in the area. For one thing, many of the most vocal opponents of the changes to TJ admissions aren’t white. But one school just outside of Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

As schools and testing centers shut down in spring 2020, it seemed only fair for colleges and universities to suspend ACT and SAT admissions requirements. Students with access to test tutors are aware that the eye of the admissions needle has narrowed, and they are being coached to use their test scores to thread it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Harvard’s admissions dean announced the university’s commitment to enrolling a higher number of Black students than in the past. Another myth is that the use of race and ethnicity as a consideration in admissions flooded colleges with an increasing number of Black students who took the place of applicants who were more “highly qualified.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

Ever since the Supreme Court announced last year that it would rule on two cases involving affirmative action in college admissions, the world of higher education has been anxiously awaiting a decision. On Thursday, the Supreme Court met those expectations, ruling that the consideration of race in college admissions is unconstitutional.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

From the man behind an audacious scam to manipulate who gets into elite colleges, we now have a very public acknowledgment about how admissions decisions really work – and the role money and connections play. This time, the admission comes with a prison sentence. Related: After Varsity Blues, will there be action on college admissions?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To reach that goal and also diversify the transfer population, university leaders announced a new program at UCLA designed specifically for students at community colleges that have historically sent few transfers to the University of California. Students walk on the UCLA campus.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. More than 1,800 colleges have adopted test-optional or test-blind admissions. That’s increased the importance of grades.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For more news on assessments, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Standardized testing has long been a contentious topic in the field of education. Nonetheless, in a shifting landscape where holistic admissions processes are gaining traction, standardized tests continue to wield disproportionate influence in college admissions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

We may not yet know what college admissions will look like after the pandemic, but the influence of the SAT and the ACT — once critical requirements in a student’s college application process — is rapidly eroding before our eyes. And that’s something to celebrate.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2021

after school officials made changes to the admissions process for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology last year. News & World Report named the top in the nation. But opponents say the new policy illegally erects barriers for Asian American students. That’s a very significant drop.” “The

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Less than a month before Gay’s resignation, these politics were on display as Ivy League early admissions decisions sparked the annual accusations of reverse racism, with non-Black students and parents blaming Black students for stealing their spots in the class of 2028. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2022

In response to the pandemic, many selective colleges and universities across the nation temporarily dropped testing requirements for admission. Such a drastic and quick shift in admissions practices demonstrates an unprecedented nimbleness by colleges that have largely subsisted on supposed notions of merit.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And just wait: College admissions is about to get even more complicated, with a major shake-up on the horizon that could forever change who gets in and why. How is race and ethnicity considered in college admissions? Oral arguments in the cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions and v.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

“If affirmative action goes away, opportunities to learn from different perspectives and world views will be limited, and that does an injustice to students,” Kella told me during a break from her classes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday, after a conservative-dominated Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to race-conscious admissions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When Shayna Medley worked as an admissions officer at Brandeis University nearly a decade ago, she said, the message from above was clear: Find more men. But admissions officers still wanted to balance out the number of men and women on campus. Charles Deacon, dean of admission, Georgetown University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The rocky rollout of the new FAFSA has caused extraordinary delays this year in transmission of essential financial data from the federal government to colleges and universities. And in general, May 1 is much less relevant, or not relevant at all, to colleges that have rolling or open admissions. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Dear Reader, Saying it’s been a wild year in higher education news seems like the understatement of the century. (I I think even non-education nerds would agree!)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

And, according to a new report I co-authored for Just Equations , the benefits of that elevated standing are starkly apparent: Based on data from surveys and interviews, “ A New Calculus for College Admissions ” reveals how deep-seated preferences for calculus weigh heavily in decisions about who gets admitted to college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Weren’t the lies and cheating of the Varsity Blues admissions scandal supposed to usher in a new era of transparency, with all those promises of an overhaul to follow? Was I wrong in thinking that these colleges should have plenty of reasons to revisit legacy preferences, amid new diversity and inclusion efforts?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

In California, that disagreement erupted in October 2020, after the group that sets admission requirements for the state’s public university system (known as A-G ) announced it would allow students to substitute data science for Algebra II to help more students qualify for college. We’re constantly doing new things.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This story also appeared in CBS News Beneath the inscription, a clock marks the time and dates when three swaddled newborns depicted in large photos entered the world: Ashley, now 19, Emily, 17, and Brianna, 11. Several said that they would not have such data available even internally until after the admissions cycle wraps up next year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning page Misconception: AI will encourage students to cheat. Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. Truth: Educators need to reconsider how they assess student work.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. No public universities were included in this study because not enough state schools with competitive admissions had gone test optional before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: At the bottom of page 22 of the Supreme Court’s lengthy opinion barring the use of race in college admissions , is a curious three-sentence footnote. But we don’t. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yet if we broaden our focus, there are myriad more impactful ways to promote educational equity than adjusting the admissions practices of elite colleges. Far greater numbers of Black, Latino and Native American students are enrolled at public and private schools with moderately selective to open admission practices than at elite colleges.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

In the fallout from the college admissions scandal, one striking element has been the absence of checks and balances in the system. As Jon Reider, a former Stanford admissions officer from 1985–2000, said on the To The Point podcast, “There is a surprising amount of trust in the whole admissions world.” News & World Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

. — Half a dozen nervous-looking high school students and their parents browse a table of pamphlets and freebies, then settle into molded plastic chairs to hear a hyper-enthusiastic admissions officer sing the praises of the Colorado School of Mines. The university will end the practice of legacy admission August 1.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

This story also appeared in NBC News. Guaranteed and dual admissions — under which students are accepted to both two- and four-year programs at the same time — are designed to smooth their paths. In May, Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York and Morehouse College in Atlanta announced a guaranteed transfer deal.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Close up of an illustration from the cover of a May 2022 study on high school grade inflation by ACT, a maker of college admissions tests. Yes, it’s a justification for why high schoolers shouldn’t be freed of onerous college admissions tests, but it’s also more evidence that grade inflation is significant and worth closer attention.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

Kids aged 8–18 years old are in front of screens for seven hours every day on average, CBS News reports. Students must be savvy about what they say and do online, since college admissions officers — and even future employers — are likely to look through their social media accounts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Yet as we await the Supreme Court’s decision on the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the nation’s gaze is once again narrowed to the most elite and selective 100 institutions: the so-called top 5 percent. No doubt, there is a lot at stake for a small sliver of students and institutions. Wallis is a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

College admissions officers value calculus, almost as a proxy for intelligence. And college admissions tests tend to emphasize math skills that students will practice more on the algebra-to-calculus track. However, there is no consensus on which algebra topics to jettison. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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