Admissions management service Acuity Insights has identified some key trends shaping the higher education landscape this year and some of the best practices to implement to continue reeling in talented and diverse cohorts of students.
AI detectors like Turnitin and GPTZero are turning in false positives on students' use of AI, and it is becoming harder and harder for educators to determine how often their students are using the tool.
Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, starting next year. Like many other colleges during the Covid pandemic, Dartmouth dropped its requirement that applicants submit an SAT or ACT score. Three Dartmouth economists and a sociologist then dug into the numbers. One of their main findings […]
Getting into an Ivy League college or another elite university requires hard work from a student, including top grades, scores and stellar essays. But for some wealthy families, it takes a bit more to tip the scales in their child’s favor: College consultants who can charge up to $750,000. The rise of concierge college consultants […]
Studying over 4,000 students in grades 10 to 12 this past summer, ACT discovered that 46% have used different AI tools. Of this cohort, nearly half (46%) have used it for school assignments.
Every year, university admissions officers read and sort through tens of thousands of essays. It’s a long, arduous process. Now, some researchers say an artificial intelligence tool may be able to help admissions officers sort through essays and recognize prospective students who might previously have gone unrecognized. The application is a long way off from […]
Despite the firm resolve of institutions to maintain similar student diversity benchmarks, nearly half (45%) said they were concerned about the difficulty of recruiting and retaining a diverse body, according to a new report by Acuity Insights.
Two universities that have embraced remote work in some of their departments have experienced early signs of better staff recruitment, performance, work morale and performance.
With an unclear purpose, students' proclivity to lie and emerging technologies that can create better prose out of generative AI text, what are admission offices to do with the college essay?
