Be A College Admission Data Scientist
Here is the final installment of the three-part series from Brennan Barnard and Forbes. This article discusses the data that should be made available to students and families as they research and decide to which colleges the student wants to apply. " In an age of information overload and creative “massaging” of data, it is incumbent upon colleges and universities to continue to seek approaches that better represent the value and experience of education on their campuses. Systematically we need to standardize the delivery of this information in equitable, logical, and comprehensible ways. Meanwhile, students and those who support them must look beyond facile averages that a basic web search will produce and demand better from the institutions of which day hope to be part. After all, “knowledge is power.”
Be A College Admission Data Scientist
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The second article in a three-part series about college admission from Brennan Barnard. This article discusses the wealth of data that's available to students, families, and colleges. It's important to know the source of the information and its credibility as you are doing your research. The US Department of Education College Scorecard is one site I use frequently, along with the Common Data Sets (CDS) from each college.
College Admissions: Who Knows What? From Forbes Brennan Barnard, education writer and college counselor, shares information about college rankings and information overload in the world of admissions. From Angel Perez, CEO of the National Association for College Admission Counseling: “We need to do a better job of centralizing college admission advice in just a few places where students can turn to for quality, trusted, information. Students are currently overwhelmed with information overload. It’s too much.”
This is the first of a three-part series. College Admission: Data, Transparency, and Match |
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