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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. Ray Lombardi, 50, listened thoughtfully. The need is everywhere,” Schmid said. How do we normalize it?”

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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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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. He is a board member of Matriculate. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He called for stronger messages from college leaders about the value of a degree, along with more transparent financial aid letters, improved college and career counseling and clearer transfer pathways – all topics we’ve been reporting on for years at The Hechinger Report. Related: College admissions is already broken. No one answered.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The more they worry about whether students in this year of the coronavirus will show up in the fall, the more admissions officers responsible for filling seats at colleges and universities have started sounding like the salesmen on late-night TV infomercials. Prime dorm rooms! This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

This story also appeared in GBH News. GBH News covered the previously obscure practice with the Hechinger Report earlier this year , which prevents mostly low-income Black and Hispanic students from graduating or landing jobs. Another way withholding transcripts can hold students back: when they try to transfer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For decades, the distinction between community colleges and four-year colleges has been clear: a student’s stay at community college is generally shorter, and admission is largely open, often oriented around job skills. Related: Why so few students transferring from community college to university. The post From Associate to B.A.:

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

is a tagline we invite the George Mason undergraduate admissions officers to keep top of mind as they begin their recruitment road trips. This story about humanities degrees was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. Many students who have benefitted from it see conditional admission as a perfectly acceptable route to their top-choice campus. They see it as a curse.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This story also appeared in GBH News and National Public Radio. New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine says it’s seen a 4 percent increase, but that comes on top of a 47 percent rise last year after the medical school made tuition free; this year, it has more than 9,600 applications for 102 spots. SOMERVILLE, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

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 We got on the phone and we called hundreds, hundreds of students,” said Shannon Gundy, executive director of undergraduate admissions. Among major public universities, U-Md.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. For other students, credit eligibility may serve primarily as an indicator of the value of a course, even if they don’t take advantage of the credit option.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Gage Ramirez transferred twice in his college career. Ramirez ultimately found himself changing majors and transferring to another California public institution. Students who transfer among colleges and universities lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. LA VERNE, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Transparent admission standards? Fair admission tests? Paul Tough’s new book deftly explored why standardized test scores like the SAT inevitably tilt elite college admissions towards rich students, as does their ability to pay in full. But changes in some areas, like college admissions policies, could happen now.

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APRIL 16, 2024

They’re trying to transfer credits. The Department of Education will say, ‘Oh, schools have lots of, you know, brothers and sisters out there you can easily transfer to.’ All or most of their credits transfer, and they just keep going as if almost nothing happened, although they might have to move or become an online student.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

News & World Report’s school rankings or nonprofit GreatSchools’ directory. Sally Rubenstone, a contributor to college admissions counseling website College Confidential and an admissions counselor for more than 15 years, said in an email that U.S News remains the top resource for college rankings, much to her chagrin.

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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. Credit: Michael Ciaglo for NBC News. BOULDER, Colo. —

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MAY 20, 2020

This story also appeared in NBC News. On the down side, students opting for community college past the summer may have trouble transferring their credits back to a four-year university. If they do, they have to reapply as transfer students. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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JUNE 20, 2019

More than 400 colleges and universities nationwide still had seats available for freshmen and transfer students after the traditional May 1 deadline to enroll for the fall, the National Association for College Admission Counseling says. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. This year we had a lot of kids rejected with a 3.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

But it’s not all bad news at two-year colleges. Getting transfer credits approved may be another stumbling block during the pandemic. One thing community colleges do better than the four-year sector is respond to these ebbs and flows in student enrollments because they're open-admission.” 'All A few leaders offered hope, too.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This story also appeared in NBC News. Credit: Matt Odom for NBC News. She said her sister had transferred from there to Georgia State because she hadn’t felt comfortable on the flagship campus. “It Standifer said the university doesn’t rely primarily on test scores and has used a holistic approach to admissions for years.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The details of the admissions-fraud scheme revealed by federal prosecutors last month sound like something out of a heist movie. A private admissions counselor allegedly bribed a proctor of an SAT test, and in some cases paid someone to take the test for a student, or have someone change answers to improve a student’s score.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Faculty at the 175-year-old liberal-arts school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields including data analytics and computational neuroscience. Admissions officers are back from scouting out prospective students in China, India and Pakistan.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Because the problem with this is, now these students are going to have more trouble getting into graduate school or professional schools that have admission requirements of letter grades, and even more significantly, to transfer those credits from this semester if they transfer schools. This is a hugely underappreciated problem.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

This story also appeared in NBC News. Hare, now a senior, is on track to graduate without having transferred, withdrawn temporarily or gone part-time. Along with orientations and admission seminars open to all students, there is also an institute for leadership development specifically for Black and Latino students. “We

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

It is these key features that together provide the trust in the database (whether it exists on the public interent or on a private intranet) that leads people to see it as a mechanism to store and transfer goods and information of value. Ten , most of the current focus of blockchain is on building and transferring value.

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APRIL 15, 2019

colleges, but they consistently outperform their peers, achieving stronger outcomes than admissions models would predict. The good news is that more veterans have begun to apply to the Ivy League and other elite colleges either directly from military service, or as transfers from junior colleges at which they have proven they can excel.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news broke that he had flouted his own school enrollment policy. Wilson sought to bypass the extremely competitive school lottery system in order to transfer his daughter to a higher-scoring school. Read more about education in New Orleans.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. He admired Tulane’s reputation — the New Orleans private school is the highest-ranked Louisiana university on U.S. LSU President Alexander.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his two years at Penn State before transferring to Princeton this fall, he rarely mentioned his military service. With application criteria often based on test scores, grade-point averages and extracurricular activities, admissions officers often don’t know how to account for military experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say. However, Williams hopes to transfer back to a traditional school so she can have the option of playing competitive sports. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Department of Education brief.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“People are worried the shadow this casts will be quite a bit longer than the pandemic itself,” said David Hawkins, chief education and policy officer for the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Nassau Community College on New York’s Long Island has seen a sharp drop in returning students for the spring semester.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The push worked, with 60 percent of the eligible 9,500 students finishing applications for financial aid and for admission to one of the Alamo colleges. Alamo’s new Promise program offers graduates of 25 city high schools three years of free tuition and fees. years in 2015 to 3.76 years in 2020. Credit: Alamo College District.

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MAY 19, 2016

In response, many admissions officers have been scouring the country — and the globe — to attract “qualified” black and brown students, striving to meet diversity targets while avoiding students they consider “at risk” of dropping out. Its newly minted honors program doesn’t consider SAT scores for admissions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

At orientation this summer, Deahrah Williams, a black student, was already considering transferring to another university after she finishes a year at Ashtabula. “I We want people to come here and know that they’re accepted no matter what,” said Valerie Gonzalez, an Ashtabula alum and admissions counselor.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Called the Chatfield Edge, it has provided volunteer mentors, career counseling, assistance with admission and financial aid applications and other help to 21 students, and scholarships of about $1,500 per semester to 19 of them, said David Hesson, director of programs, who was an associate dean at the college. Oh my gosh, it’s quiet.

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