Colleges Can Fix the Broken Admissions Process They Created

Piles of applications and ultra-low acceptance rates are indicators not of popularity but of a poorly designed system in need of change.

The College-Admissions Process Is Completely Broken - The Atlantic

A better way exists. Colleges could alleviate the congestion and stress they created—and provide relief to both schools and students in the ...

Can we fix the college admissions process? by Jett Rosen

Unfortunately, it can't. The college admissions process has inherent flaws which won't change until other inequities are addressed. Thoughts of ...

Why the US College Admissions Process is Broken

Rolling admissions is often used, which means students are being compared to the set criteria, as opposed to other applicants. Even in the schools that have ...

Is the college admissions process broken? - Parents Forum

... to create the allure of being special since they are so expensive. If your in-state public university is very good, why would we spend two ...

College Admissions Process is a Broken System - The Viking Saga

Colleges need to be more clear when they want students to apply to their schools. The common data set of vague points simply is not enough.

How would you fix the college admissions process? - Quora

The biggest change I would make is to randomize admissions to help us understand how to make college work better. We have little scientific ...

College Admissions Are Broken And In Need Of Innovation - Forbes

With innovations such as the common application and other electronic submission systems, it becomes easier, if not less expensive, to apply to ...

Why Does College Admissions Feel Broken? - Ivy Scholars

The incentives on colleges mean that none of this will change. Because having a low acceptance rate is seen as a sign of prestige, colleges have ...

Is the college admissions process broken? - Page 30 - Parents Forum

implies it can somehow be fixed (if needed). I don't think it is broken so I don't see a need to fix anything. Schools admit who they want ...

The College Admissions Process Is Broken

These changes would free up time and resources for college admissions offices, restore sanity during the application process and most ...

College admissions is broken. Here's how to fix it. - Vox

But it would benefit both sides of the high-pressure college application process by creating a more straightforward system, and it could lead to ...

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity - The New York Times

These disparate changes had one crucial thing in common: Almost all of them strengthened the hand of highly selective colleges, allowing them to ...

How Colleges Can Make the Admissions Process Easier for ...

The US college-admissions process is notoriously burdensome for students, who have to research, visit, and apply to many schools in order to ...

Colleges Are Facing an Enrollment Nightmare - The Atlantic

In December 2020, on the eve of Alexander's retirement, Congress finally passed legislation to simplify the form, with implementation ultimately ...

Supreme Court just threw out the college admissions process as we ...

The Supreme Court ruling has ended affirmative action in higher education as we know it but allows schools to continue some limited ...

Civic Issue: College Admissions is a broken system | Zhar's Blog

With advancing technology such as the common application the application process is much easier. I personally know someone who applied to over ...

The pandemic may change college admissions forever - LinkedIn

The selection system for the most elite colleges, where applications are abundant and seats are scarce, is broken because it has been built on a ...

What Makes a Fair College Admissions Process? - JSTOR Daily

To get to the root of the crisis, this roundtable discussion—curated by Public Books and JSTOR Daily—asks scholars to go back to the drawing ...

The Pandemic Exposed How Broken the College Admissions ...

“A lot of elite institutions encourage lots of people to apply, accept a small number, and keep their acceptance rates low for prestige,” says ...