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Jon Boeckenstedt de la Azure Cheque Profile picture
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Sep 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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A play, in five acts:

ACT I, the least surprising announcement in college admissions:

thehoya.com/georgetown-adm…
ACT II:
ACT III:
ACT IV:
ACT V:
Epilogue:

Can't make this stuff up.
Epilogue II:
Ya, I really do think.
Oh, and #EMTalk

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Feb 7
Thread: It seems I'm spending more time telling people why I'm not too interested in the Dartmouth decision than it would take to just put it here. So here goes. I hope this is the last I'll say about it.
First, I've long said that if a college finds value in the SAT, they would be foolish not to use it. I just ask that they do the research, which Dartmouth did. And the lowest-scoring students at Dartmouth end up with a GPA of 3.1 or something like that. Horrible.
I am--frankly--a little suspicious of analysis that shows the SAT is better than HS GPA, because you know damn well if College Board or ACT could make that claim, they'd have done so long ago. They've never even whispered it.
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May 3, 2023
Thread: Post-May 1, aka the death of May 1:

A friend sent this Image
This is the result of the DOJ investigating the NACAC Statement of Principles of Good Practice, which would have allowed this if the student had not withdrawn, but would have forbidden it if the student had notified the offering school that they had deposited elsewhere.
The DOJ treated college just like any other consumer purchase: Suppose car dealers agreed the Subaru dealer could not call you while you were on the way to the Ford dealer to buy the car you had agreed to buy, and offer you a better deal?

That would be bad for consumers.
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May 2, 2023
Thread: When someone tells you about the big drop in high school graduates, remember 2014. Because by 2037, we'll be back to numbers like we saw in 2014. Image
What's really compelling is the mix: America will be more diverse, and because different ethnic groups have different college participation rates, that's the big thing going on behind the numbers. Image
And, of course, New England has known this for a long time. Image
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May 1, 2023
Thread: The numbers.

I've never received so many emails about my writing in CHE as I have for the most recent one about "The Number."

But here's a little insight into that.
Sunday morning, I logged in and checked our Tuition Deposits for Fall first-year students.

By Sunday evening (12 hours later) that number had gone up by 3.7%.

By this morning, it had gone up another 3.2% over that.
Expressed another way, 6.5% of all deposits we currently have came in during the last 24 hours. And we still have a day to go...the day that is traditionally the biggest, or at least one of the biggest.
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Feb 10, 2023
Thread: Don't be shocked when I tell you this. It takes a lot of people some time to figure it out, and sometimes a little longer to sink in:

College Board is a business.
It's a not-for-profit business. But it's a business. Not-for-profit means they don't have owners or stockholders to collect excess revenue as profits.

It's not a charity. That's not what not-for-profit means.
Moreover, it's not a government agency.

No one appointed them. No one voted them in. No legislative bodies brought them into being.

Yet it has an outsized role in determining what students get taught.

It affects millions of kids each year. Did you know that?
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Feb 9, 2023
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Hey, everyone: This is pretty big.

The Daily Caller (ugh) has memos from the Florida DOE suggesting they were influencing @CollegeBoard on the AP African-American Studies curriculum as early as January 2022, and at the very minimum, July 2022.
So, to everyone who somehow believed that College Board made its own, independent decisions about the framework/curriculum and wrapped it all up in December, 2022, before DeSantis went public: Read this.

scribd.com/document/62466…
I normally wouldn't trust Daily Caller, but this serves their right wing agenda well; it's believable, and, I suspect, even they wouldn't publish a fabricated memo from the Florida DOE.

In order to win the nomination in 2024, DeSantis is going to have to do two things Trump did:
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