Showing posts with label college admissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college admissions. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities.

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  The NYT has the story: California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities. The change will affect Stanford University, the Universi...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

AI in college admissions

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  College admissions staff must expect to be seeing a lot of personal essays written and edited by chatbots. Here's a company, Kollegio....
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Centralized assignment mechanisms that don't include all the relevant choices, by Kapor, Karnani and Neilson in the JPE

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 One of the issues in organizing a centralized matching mechanism is to make the market thick, by including all or most of the relevant choi...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Interviews by lottery at Queens University School of Medicine

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 Overwhelmed by large numbers of applications, and concerned about fairness, Queens University will set admissions thresholds (on grades and...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Affirmative action in Brazilian universities: guest post by Inácio Bó

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 Recent legislation in Brazil addresses university admissions with affirmative action that targets multiple characteristics that individuals...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Affirmative action in India

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  Here's an interesting paper by Orhan  Aygün and Bertan Turhan . It comes with something of a backstory, which accounts for its quite d...
Sunday, November 6, 2022

Limiting congestion by limiting applications, or making them costly

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  Here's a paper that investigates two alternatives to limiting congestion in college admissions: one is to limit applications, and the ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Affirmative action at Harvard and elsewhere, by Roland Fryer

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  As the Supreme Court starts to hear arguments about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard and the University of North Carol...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Reducing the costs of preparing for high stakes exams by reporting scores coarsely

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 In many countries, national exams serve as the gateway to college admissions and other prizes, and many applicants incur great costs in tim...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Who Benefits from Meritocracy? by Diana Moreira & Santiago Pérez

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 Exams for U.S. civil service positions apparently started for some positions in 1883, and here's an NBER working paper that looks at th...
Friday, April 1, 2022

MIT reinstates standardized tests, to increase diversity

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 Here's the MIT announcement: We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles by Stu Schmill '86 in order to...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Is applying to college too hard?

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 While there are concerns that electronic application services like the common app have led to an explosion of applications, there are also ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Multiple offer mechanisms in school choice, when information gathering is costly

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  When it's costly to gather information needed to inform yourself about your own preferences, having a guaranteed offer in hand may jus...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

College as a Marriage Market, by Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad

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Here's a recent working paper about college and marriage in Norway: College as a Marriage Market, by Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven, Magn...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

College admissions: Oxford and Cambridge

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  The Financial Times has the story: How Britain’s private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge. As state-school admissions rise at elite uni...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Strategic issues with (combined) early and late matching, by Mumcu and Saglam

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   Here's a paper on early decision in college admissions. I read it with particular interest because of related discussions going on ri...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

The common app and the growth of applications to selective colleges, by Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff

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A pair of papers study the Common App, how it is used disproportionally by selective universities and liberal arts colleges, to which applic...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The surge in exam-optional applications for college admissions

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 Covid forced lots of colleges to make standardized tests optional in admissions, and that seems to have jolted the growth in college applic...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Exploding offers of admission to Notre Dame Law School

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Notre Dame Law School has apparently sent out more acceptance letters than it has positions, and the offers will expire automatically once s...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

College admissions, exam optional

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 The WSJ has a report focusing on post-covid, exam optional college admissions: College Admission Season Is Crazier Than Ever. That Could Ch...