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Oct 3 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#HateRead candidate:
1. Its town and country writing about college
2. data analysis seems suspect and incomplete
3. unacknowledged focus on highly rejectives

townandcountrymag.com/society/money-…
I'm pretty sure @JonBoeckenstedt already addressed this in this blog ... but i'm not ready to commit to reading the original article or Jon's blog.

If you, my friends, do read them let me know what you find. . .
highereddatastories.com/2022/06/aborti…
how say an article is not about "college admissions" but about "college admissions for dream-hoarding brand-obsessed elitist"

- interview only consultants
- focus on schools with $60k tuition
- focus on #HighlyRejectiveColleges
so if we take these articles (headlines) together we arrive at the seemingly illogical conclusion:

Rich kids are flocking to southern state flagships with stricter abortion and rights restrictions but are piling up debt to do it?

Maybe another day I'll read all three articles
Whoops . . . link to @biblioracle's piece slate.com/business/2022/…

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Oct 3
Now reading
(paywalled so after clicking the link to give the author his coins do what you need to):

businessinsider.com/early-decision…
Tulane's admissions rate is .7% ?!?!?! They are competing with @stanvard_u
So many things here make me stabby!!!
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Sep 12
Let's make sure you all have full context for what the rankings are and aren't . . . a thread

(spoiler: they are measures of the wealth and brand position of the institution).
First, a lil context and history.

Rankings have never been done by object governmental agencies.

In 1910 the fed attempted a ranking at the request of AAU but a draft leaked, created a stink, and Taft quashed the release by exec order.

gife.issuelab.org/resources/3199… Image
Reputational rankings rose in popularity at magazines. It was a way to sell mags. There was no govermental of political inteference to force transparency or changes.

1924 – NC Association of Schools and Colleges ask for faculty opinion
1934 – American Council of Education
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Jul 11
The latest test publisher marketing gimmicks is test scores help you "stand out" but by the nature and design of standardized testing at least 50% will NOT STAND OUT. ImageImage
"When our powers combine. . . "

we'll convince students that testing will help you stand out.

#marketing ImageImage
Oh my.. the #GRE is so so desperate

trying hard to make institutions think the test is testing relevant skills and making applicants think that the test is necessary to "dreams."

also aggressively trying to become the bschool and law school test

#Marketing #GRExit ImageImageImage
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Mar 28
MIT is reinstating its testing requirement.

Their announcement has some odd tortured logic that's worth evaluating. #nowreading

mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we…
What's interesting is that though they site the research foundation of this decision a bunch of times, no research is ever actually given.

I'd love to see their studies on the predictive validity of the tests in their schools.
This is also really weird.

Their claim is that NOT having a test that has biased socio-economic outcomes CREATES a barrier to socio-economic equity.
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Mar 28
Holy crap!

Season 2 of @TheEqualizerCBS with Queen Latifah is going all in on college, admissions and blackness.

I'm going to thread all the references!

(and post picts of the Queen looking fly!)
Episode 10 gives a some race falsification and opportunity hoarding!
Might as well attach these show storylines to real articles and research.

thehill.com/changing-ameri…
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Nov 24, 2021
My latest article explores the history of and why it's time to end the of the 51 year SAT/ACT "experiment" at the University of California. lnkd.in/grvz7apt
A few interesting tidbits I didn't add to the article.

1950s - the University was confronting serious problems associated with growth. The GI Bill had increased enrollments significantly and the baby boom generation had entered the school system. The goal was 12.5% eligibility
1960 - BOARS concluded that the study did not indicate any additional predictive power associated with the SAT. A subsequent study of showed a better correlation with FGPA, but not enough to convince the Academic Assembly of the value of adopting an admissions test requirement
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