No, not the original. Last night, as I was scrolling through the news, I saw this article, reporting on the statement by Harvard University on the Immigration Order issued by the president. Using my personal account, I tweeted out this: One RT, and one heart. OK, no one got the joke except a constitutional law […]
A few years ago, I was at a conference, and sat in a room with mostly high school counselors who had some bones to pick with the most selective colleges and the way they do admissions. None of their points were unreasonable, of course: They wanted the colleges and universities to be more responsive when […]
You might be surprised to learn that Harvard doesn’t care what I think. No one at Cal Tech consults me before making decisions. And no one at the University of Chicago–our neighbor on the south side of Chicago–has ever called and asked me to lunch. This is my influence on higher education in the US. But […]
On May 1, 2015, I’m doing a panel at IACAC on changes I’ve seen in college admissions. This is a summary of my talk there. Sometime in early December, I’ll mark 32 years of working in college admissions and enrollment management. I don’t remember the exact date, but it was the 1st or 2nd or […]
Remember this scene? (Sorry for the ad before the video. Hang with it.) A while ago, a piece in the Huffington Post kicked off an interesting discussion about the use of data in college admissions. One part in particular seemed to be the focus of much of the attention: A new focus for predicting a […]
A while ago, I wrote a guest blog post on the Washington Post, about using Google to manage the American college and university application process. I got some good response to it: A lot of people thought there was some merit to the idea; some thought I was crazy, and many suggested that this was an example […]
There has been a lot of discussion recently about several free tuition programs that are under consideration. Because I frequently point out that we’re not sending enough poor kids to college in this country, you’d think I’d be all gaga about the possibility. You would be wrong. This is because of one simple reason: Free […]
