The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

In 2021, the proportion of high school graduates going directly to college fell to 62 percent from a high of 70 percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. “If we don’t have those conversations, parents will say this [college] isn’t worth it, and they will look for other opportunities and options.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions last June fueled heated debates and raised questions about the distribution of opportunities to attend highly selective education institutions. That question, while well-intentioned, is overly narrow. A study found that although just1 percent of U.S. Why only 12?

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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

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.

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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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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

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

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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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. Julie Wollman is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Jacqueline M.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I was homeless for six years and now attend Yale as a fully funded graduate student. After graduating, I transferred to Rollins College , a small, private liberal arts college in Central Florida with over a $360 million endowment and annual on-campus student costs exceeding $78,000.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

After the Supreme Court issues its long-awaited decisions this month, observers expect that the long-held practice of considering race as a factor in college admissions will be severely curtailed, or perhaps outlawed entirely, as it is already in nine U.S. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

is a question I heard often from my family as both an undergraduate and a graduate student. Key takeaways: Earnings : Humanities graduates’ earnings are substantially higher than those of people without a college degree and are often on par with or higher than those of graduates in non-engineering fields.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

It marked a nadir for a metric crucial to the flagship university’s commitment to diversity in a state where about a third of public high school graduates each year are Black. The university’s admissions team resolved to reverse the trend, with urgent outreach to high school seniors who had started applications but not finished them. “We

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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

APRIL 7, 2024

But she admitted to feeling overwhelmed: Her four kids were trying her nerves, her ailing father was requiring more of her time, and a bad-news ex had left her with a destructive puppy and a lingering disbelief that she can pull it all off. It’s challenging to have these awesome leaders who graduate so quickly.”

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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. But this crisis is different.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

Living in a state that banned the consideration of race in college admissions and employment fostered in me a deep-rooted adherence to meritocracy — a belief that personal dedication and diligence dictate one’s educational and occupational achievements. Yet, I questioned every step of the process.

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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. by Jennifer Brown.

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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

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

APRIL 30, 2023

First came the good news. Facing an extra year of school after her credits didn’t transfer out, Ricki Korba likely will run out of financial aid before she graduates. Facing an extra year of school, Korba likely will run out of financial aid before she graduates. But she wonders how long she can juggle it all.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Graduate education has been a bright spot in U.S. higher education, as getting a graduate degree has become far more common in recent decades, particularly for the millennial generation. job openings in the year 2018 requested a graduate degree. job openings in the year 2018 requested a graduate degree. percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Voc-tech students graduate with industry-recognized credentials and the ability to pursue college if they choose. Business leaders can offer students co-op opportunities — paid, part-time work while they are still enrolled in high school — and a bridge to jobs following graduation. The stakes at voc-techs are high.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions, research will play an even more prominent role in deciding who can attend top colleges. Research projects can be both a differentiator and an equalizer in the college admissions process. While I was getting my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

. — In high school, Carlos Granillo was a standout honor student and multisport athlete whose hard work earned him admission to the state’s flagship university, the University of Colorado Boulder. This story also appeared in NBC News. Credit: Michael Ciaglo for NBC News. Mateo Vela, 2021 graduate of CU-Boulder.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

In ordinary times, Harvard University has made a practice of encouraging its admitted students to consider deferring admission and taking a gap year. At MIT, 8 percent of students are deferring admissions—up from 1 percent in normal years. At MIT, 8 percent of students are deferring admissions—up from 1 percent in normal years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

Anne-Marie Jean-Louis is just getting started toward her bachelor’s degree in biology with the goal of eventually getting a graduate degree in neuroscience. Community colleges typically have open admission and are comparatively cheap or even free. WARWICK, R.I. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

News and World Report now take into account how well institutions serve first-generation students. News includes in its college guide—it now has 50 different lists that it updates each year, such as “Best Value Schools,” “Most International Students” and “Best Undergraduate Business Programs.” News, in an interview with EdSurge. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

It can help a university or college by boosting early deposit rates while cutting down on expensive and time-consuming calls to stretched admissions staffs. The newest can evaluate and score applicants’ personality traits and perceived motivation, and colleges increasing are using these tools to make admissions and financial aid decisions.

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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. Others were less selective and some were larger research universities with graduate schools, such as American University in Washington, D.C., and DePaul University in Chicago.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Once a private school admits your child, they can rescind admission without cause. Pam Lang is a writer and graduate student at ASU pursuing master’s degrees in comparative literature and social work, and an advocate for public education and healthcare equality. He still asks to go there.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This story also appeared in NBC News. Credit: Matt Odom for NBC News. For at least a decade, the University of Georgia has failed to enroll Black students at a rate proportionate to the number of Black high school graduates in the state. ATHENS, Ga. She sat down, as she always did, with her back to the sea of white faces.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

colleges and universities have traditionally stopped accepting applications for admission and have a good sense of who will be in their incoming classes in the fall. Institutions must be ready to support students not just during their transition to college — but all through the experience until graduation. By June, many U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

The universities—Otterbein University and Antioch University—will share costs and jointly manage graduate-level courses and career certificates and badges for adult learners, while hanging onto independence in their undergraduate offerings. News won't reward us for it. We don't care.”

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