Showing posts with label common application. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common application. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2024

NRMP Board of Directors (2020-2024), and a 40th anniversary

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  This bit of glass marks the end of my term on the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Board of Directors. One of the issues that con...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Applying for medical residencies: a consensus statement from Internal Medicine

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 The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine has released a "consensus statement" with many proposals about application and interv...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Interesting development in the transition from medical school to residency: connecting applications and interviews

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  The market for new doctors has been suffering from congestion in applications and interviews, in the runup to the resident Match (see rece...
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, 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 ...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Nervousness and confusion about residency applications

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  Medpage Today has the story, which has been active on medical twitter for a while--some residency candidates are finding that their applic...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Congestion in applications and interviews, by Arnosti, Johari and Kanoria

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  Here's a paper modeling the issue that some labor markets may face congestion related to large numbers of applications followed by cos...
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, September 2, 2020

Who Gets In, and Why--an inside look at college admissions

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Here's an essay from the WSJ, adapted from a forthcoming book with an evocative title, “ Who Gets In and Why , by Jeffrey Selingo . The...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

More applications, from fewer applicants per position in Vascular Surgery residencies

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Trends in the 10-year history of the vascular integrated residency match: More work, higher cost, same result Katherine K.McMackin MD, Fr...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Battle over college admission application platforms

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CollegeNET , a software vendor to colleges, is suing the  Common App ., and also providing software support for it's newer competitor, ...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Colleges that get a lot of applications read each one quickly (WSJ)

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How to deal with congestion?  Move fast...  Here's the story from the WSJ: Some Elite Colleges Review an Application in 8 Minutes (or...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Applications and interviews for medical residencies

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The computerized clearinghouse for the NRMP medical match solves the congestion problem for new doctors when it comes time to make offers, ...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

School choice in Indianapolis, and elsewhere

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The Indy Star has the story on the imminent rollout of centralized school choice in Indianapolis: Major changes await those wanting to enr...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

School choice: the difference between common application and unified enrollment

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 Joe Siedlecki of the Dell Foundation writes about school choice, with an emphasis on unified enrollment. (All of the unified enrollment sy...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Los Angeles starts to discuss common enrollment school choice

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The LA Times has the story: How realistic is L.A. Unified's common enrollment application plan? "According to a report that dis...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

College applications and college apps

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story:  Elite Colleges Explore Alternative to Common App "Admissions officials at some of the na...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Competitive college admissions gets yet more competitive, as students apply to more schools

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The NY Times has the story:  Led by Stanford’s 5%, Top Colleges’ Acceptance Rates Hit New Low "Enrollment at American colleges is sl...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Some history of the Common App

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a long, informative article on the Common App and the recent troubles with its computer systems, from which ...