Topic: College Admissions Practices
For this week’s Coffee & Conversation, We are discussing college admissions! As we prepare for Thumbs On The Scale: Race & Legacy in College Admissions on October 3rd at 6pm, co-hosted by BU Wheelock, Newbury Center, and the HTC, we thought it be fitting to start the discussion here.
What was your college admission process like? What aspects related to your identities did you have to consider when applying to schools? How did you determine value when deciding on which schools to apply for? Did college ranking list play a factor? Thoughts on legacy admissions?
Suggested Reading(s):
- Resource on demographic data for Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education
- Whether changes to US News & World Report’s college rankings methodology will have an impact on college admissions processes.
- How stakeholders view the purpose and benefits of higher education amid the erosion of public confidence in the value of college
- The demographic impacts of legacy, donor, and athletic preferences and early decision – who benefits, and to whose detriment?