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@insidehighered As a parent having gone through admissions 3x, I applaud any effort to increase cost transparency. Colleges haven't been motivated to change. Maybe an external party can invite colleges to pick 1 of your categories and include that in the Common Data Set- or publish!

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@James_S_Murphy HS counselors continue to share and encourage students to search on these sites (ours did) --so that "endorsement" really goes far to keep sites in business. Great to have more people bringing attention to this. Is there a non paywall way to share?

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Thank you @James_S_Murphy for shining light on the shadowy "biz" of scholarship sites. Shockingly, these sites still get promoted by counselors every day.
https://t.co/BMGB67D2N7

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Summary of impact of enrollment optimization on college affordability. Not a good look for private and public colleges.
https://t.co/3Jsc5Dm2Ue

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@taylor_odle the opacity is by design--its a strategy that colleges are using to seem "exclusive." Transparency is not hard to achieve, but colleges prefer opacity. More certainty for them less for families.

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@AcceptGroup is this a meme account?

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@James_S_Murphy Thanks for this v cogent thread! Reading the original text of Dartmouth's "study," was a bit disturbing b/c the headlines were reductionist to the point of being misleading.

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@AnnaIvey I wish admissions offices would sit down with families to really understand how lack of transparency, excessive requirements, and hoop jumping impacts applicants--financially, emotionally etc, and then they should fix it

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@AnnaIvey the sheer number of components and "reading the tea leaves" requirements that students encounter in completing college applications is daunting

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

A Republican-backed bill aims to make college less expensive by focusing on cost transparency, making it easier to access financial aid, and by holding institutions accountable. Will it work? https://t.co/SXtlPIqcn5

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@JonBoeckenstedt In a Swiftie parent facebook group, I heard they have entire seating sections reserved for a quota system.
It. Is. So. Unfair!

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@JonBoeckenstedt thank you for this. In our large urban public HS, every spring is a Hunger Games affair for teacher recs as all teachers have a max they can do. And parents who can write well, just submit "notes" to the counselor (who doesn't know most kids) and hope they just copy/paste

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@AnnaIvey timely piece given there seems to be an increase in the pay-to-get-research space

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@WoodworthPrep And like a broken record player- who ends up submitting great personal essays? 💵💵💵

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@ehanford In this case, a lot of trust was put into TC and their enthusiastic endorsement of Caulkins program. Educators accepted this in the same way you trust your doctor even if you don’t understand everything they say. Schools and districts will have to evaluate independently

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@axios so, basically on a 36-point scale, its dropped 1 point in 30 years- most of which happened during Covid when as any applicant knows--the standardized testing tilt-a-whirl game was crazy broken.

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@CollegeBoard Based on registration, you had no idea there would be a surge in traffic?!?! Incredible!
Issues were varied and ran well past your 9:15am “ all is well,” framing.

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@CollegeBoard is creating chaos in schools as their poorly tested all-digital version rolls out. Based on reports of the issues, "glitch" would be inaccurate to describe the widespread problems. Our kids are not guinea pigs.

[Bryan Tylander @btylander]

I had a feeling there would be problems with the first ever digital PSAT, but I didn't think it'd be of this magnitude.