{"id":4178,"date":"2023-09-28T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:38:45","slug":"coffee-and-conversation-september-29-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/coffee-and-conversation-september-29-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Conversation: September 29, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0College Admissions Practices<\/p>\n<p><span>For this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/programs\/coffee-convo\/\">Coffee &amp; Conversation<\/a>, We are discussing college admissions! As we prepare for <a href=\"http:\/\/RSVP: BU-Thumbs.eventbrite.com\">Thumbs On The Scale: Race &amp; Legacy in College Admissions<\/a> on October 3rd at 6pm, co-hosted by BU Wheelock, Newbury Center, and the HTC, we thought it be fitting to start the\u00a0<\/span>discussion here.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Reading(s):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equityinhighered.org\">Resource on demographic data for Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/blogs\/college-rankings-blog\/articles\/2023-09-18\/key-changes-in-how-the-2024-best-colleges-rankings-were-calculated?bm-verify=AAQAAAAI_____yHfzZsSL7peRNNvMBV5uqFo7rP7FBpI-FfDibMwOeCgUyLLVkDLgVA6lD5wcJyw9OFwx-D3jPDr3XYR_pEvIfAYlBVmIlvg8G60aCL6DvNPeLr1-4B_YSMpnb7krjkLpRF83LVUwCt1q3bDvKaolit8PJAqN6gS-1_z1UMUPoHmj56ZJW29kPg-jJd4J9rOYGrcw9L4xUmqjoqrTbprEyUh6ECeZ6zFM2IzGl4MXg1AS2qivYaCQ3t4fRmibnBbCUBD5VU1PvFBBkvITPlHeE-o-iGOY792obHg5UH9PoAnN614rXvCFXIvnCQqcB3OBe5j7-1V7lU9K8799pGunltgmZ6ePi-l9bOGWuL7XX80DsyrIE8--9QXYJ0GQSTpws9p4QFeSuwyxyW1yPBoK5nnmBxrff27F8UFfwCaVfVMsxUZxRli5S2ou8zDyxho\">changes<\/a> to US News &amp; World Report\u2019s college rankings methodology will have an impact on college admissions processes.<\/li>\n<li><span>How stakeholders view the purpose and benefits of higher education amid the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/05\/magazine\/college-worth-price.html?te=1&amp;nl=the-morning&amp;emc=edit_nn_20230908\">erosion<\/a><span> of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/508352\/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx\">public confidence<\/a><span> in the value of college<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The demographic <a href=\"https:\/\/opportunityinsights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/CollegeAdmissions_Nontech.pdf\">impacts<\/a> of legacy, donor, and athletic preferences and early decision \u2013\u00a0who benefits, and to whose detriment?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic:\u00a0College Admissions Practices For this week\u2019s Coffee &amp; Conversation, We are discussing college admissions! As we prepare for Thumbs On The Scale: Race &amp; 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\u00a0discussion here. What was your college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}