Student Loan Blog : College Admissions

‘Discriminatory’ UC Admissions Policy Angers Asian Community

Student Loan Girl — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:58:00 GMT

A new University of California admissions policy intended to increase the diversity of the school system’s student body may actually do the opposite, boosting the number of white students while decreasing the size of the Asian population, reports the San Jose Mercury News (“New UC Admissions Policy Gives White Students a Better Chance, Angers Asian-American Community,” March 27, 2009).

Under this new admissions policy, the UC system no longer requires the SAT subject tests, which Asians tend to excel at and which many low-income and minority students do not take, and places more weight on the SAT reasoning test, which tends to favor the white student population in admissions.

Community leaders and educators have characterized the new policy as poorly publicized, ill-conceived, and discriminatory. “It’s affirmative action for whites,” said Ling-chi Wang, a professor at UC-Berkeley. “I’m really outraged ... and profoundly disappointed with the institution.”

Although Asians currently make up only 12 percent of California’s state population, they represent 37 percent of the UC system’s admissions population — the school system’s single largest ethnic group — but may only end up comprising 7 percent of the UC system under the new policy, according to UC’s own estimate.

The admissions rate for white students, on the other hand, may rise by as much as 10 percent, while the number of black students would go up a negligible amount, and the number of Latino students would only modestly increase, Asian activists pointed out at a recent higher education conference in San Francisco.

UC administrators say that they’ve struggled to create a better cultural balance across all campuses for more than a decade in an effort to adhere to Proposition 209, which prohibited the state’s public institutions from promoting racial preference.

But this new policy has triggered a wave of suspicion throughout the Asian community not seen by the UC system since the 1980s, the Mercury News reports, when a similar policy caused a decline in Asian-American undergraduate enrollment.

“I fear a general sense that there are too many Asians in the UC system,” said Patrick Hayashi, former UC associate president. “It is a fatal mistake to think it will blow over.”

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Experts Recommend: Fill Out Your FAFSA Early

Student Loan Girl — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:37:00 GMT

Students who want to maximize their federal financial aid for the 2009–10 academic year should fill out their FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) this week — the first week applications are accepted, reports The Baltimore Sun (“Ringing in the New Year With FAFSA Might Be a Good Move for 2009,” Dec. 30, 2009).

“The sooner you get [the FAFSA] done, the better,” says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid, a financial aid website.

Since many states and colleges use the FAFSA to determine how to allocate their funds and some schools have early admissions deadlines, students who complete their application sooner rather than later may have a better chance of getting federal financial aid. Schools often have two separate financial aid funds, each with their own deadlines, and make more money available to families who met the earlier deadline, Kantrowitz says.

He recommends that families should always fill out the FAFSA even if they think they make too much money to qualify for need-based financial aid; a family making $100,000 or more could still qualify for federal and state aid to attend an expensive institution.

Resources to Get Started

Find out how to fill out your FAFSA online.

Use the FAFSA4caster at www.fafsa4caster.ed.gov to calculate how much financial aid you may qualify for and to get tips on how to reduce the time it takes you to complete your FAFSA.

Call the Federal Student Aid Information Center for free at 1-800-433-3243 if you need help with your application.

Go to www.finaid.org for tips on how to maximize the need-based aid you could receive.

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Kellogg Sends Acceptance Letters to 50 Rejected Applicants

Student Loan Girl — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:55:00 GMT

Described as a “technological glitch,” Northwestern University accidentally sent acceptance letters to 50 potential candidates for the school’s Kellogg School of Management, the Chicago Tribune reports (“Kellogg School of Management Accidentally Sends Acceptance Letters to 50 Rejected Applicants,” Dec. 18, 2008).

It truly was a computer error, said a Northwestern spokeswoman Megan Washburn, who stated that this was the first time the school’s automated mail-merge program had erroneously sent an e-mail acceptance letter.

“It has never happened before,” Washburn said. “Our systems have been in place for years. We have never experienced a problem.” She pointed out that the 50 candidates only represent about 1 percent of the 5,500 applicants who applied to the full-time business graduate program.

One student celebrated his acceptance to Kellogg at a dinner with his parents only to discover the next day that he had actually been rejected when he logged onto the school’s website.

“It was pretty embarrassing, to be honest,” said the Chicago resident who asked the Tribune not to identify him. “It’s like you won the lottery and had the rug pulled out from under you.”

Washburn said that the school had been contacting everyone who had received an acceptance letter in error to explain the computer glitch. The 50 individuals will be reimbursed their $235 application fee as a result of the mix up, she said.

“Certainly we’re very, very sorry,” Washburn said. “It’s an isolated incident and something we definitely have corrected and will work to ensure it never happens again.”

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SAT and ACT Tests Not the Best Predictors of College Success, Study Finds

Student Loan Girl — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:12:00 GMT

The colleges and universities that use students’ SAT and ACT standardized test scores when making college admissions and financial aid decisions should base these decisions on tests that more closely reflect a student’s high school achievement and understanding of the high school curriculum, according to the recommendations made by a new commission comprised of influential college admissions officials.

The commission, led by William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard University, recently completed a yearlong study that questioned the relevancy of SAT and ACT tests for college admissions (“College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs,” The New York Times, Sept. 21, 2008).

“It would be much better for the country,” Fitzsimmons says, “to have students focusing on high school courses that, based on evidence, will prepare them well for college and also prepare them well for the real world beyond college, instead of their spending enormous amounts of time trying to game the SAT.”

Admissions officers should rely instead on exams that are closer linked to high school curriculum like the College Board’s Advanced Placement tests and SAT Subject Tests and the International Baccalaureate exams when making admissions decisions, Fitzsimmons says. Unlike the SAT and ACT exams, he argues, these other tests have fewer ties to the billion-dollar test-prep industry.

Test Scores Indicate Students Who Are Well-Off Have An Advantage

Fitzsimmons’ research group, convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, found that the nature of standardized testing places less emphasis on students learning their high school curriculum and more emphasis on test preparation — a discrepancy that favors affluent students who can afford test-prep resources.

The commission’s report found that standardized test scores emphasized the socio-economic differences of the SAT’s and ACT’s test-taking population and were reflective of a student’s race and ethnicity, socio-economic class, and their family’s level of educational attainment.

“Society likes to think that the SAT measures people’s ability or merit,” Fitzsimmons says. “But no one in college admissions who visits the range of secondary schools we visit, and goes to the communities we visit … can come away thinking that standardized tests can be a measure of someone’s true worth or ability.”

Testing Companies, Schools Disagree on Report’s Findings

Representatives from the College Board — which administers the SAT exam, taken by 1.6 million high school students this year — and ACT Inc. — which is responsible for the ACT exam, taken by 1.4 million students this year — both disputed the report’s findings. The companies contend that their tests do measure students’ understanding of classroom material, not just their test-preparation skills, according to a Bloomberg article (“Colleges Shouldn’t Rely on SAT, ACT Tests Study Says,” Sept. 22, 2008).

“Hundreds of national research studies show that the SAT is a valid predictor of college success,” the College Board wrote in a statement. “We have long advised that the use of the SAT in the admission process is in combination with high school grades.”

Prior to the report’s recommendations, only 280 four-year schools, including Wake Forest University, Smith College, Bates College, and the University of Wisconsin, had stopped requiring the standardized tests for admissions, and the report calls for more schools to follow suit.

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Princeton Review Exposes Thousands of Students’ Personal Info

Student Loan Girl — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:24:00 GMT

For nearly two months, thousands of the The Princeton Review’s private files including folders containing the company’s and test-takers’ personal data were unintentionally made accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, according to an article in The New York Times (“Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site,” Aug. 18, 2008).

Digital files containing student identification information, test-preparation materials, and internal communication documents, which should have been password protected, have been listed on an easy-to-find, publically viewable webpage ever since the test-preparatory firm switched Internet service providers in late June.

The error was discovered by a rival company while it was conducting competitive research on The Princeton Review. The rival company, which asked not to be named, provided the Times with the Web address containing the files. The Princeton Review promptly shut off access to the exposed private data on its website after the newspaper informed it of the error on Monday. It is not known how many people may have accessed the files.

Security Error Blamed On Company’s Faulty Internet Protection Practices

One of the files listed the identification information of about 34,000 Florida elementary school students, including their birthdays, ethnicities, and whether they had learning disabilities. The school system had hired The Princeton Review to build an online tool that would measure students’ academic progress.

Another 74,000 students in a Virginia school system — which had also contracted with The Princeton Review to measure and improve student performance — had their names and birth dates exposed.

The test-preparatory company’s own educational materials for the LSAT, PSAT and SAT exams, as well as its course schedules, internal instructor evaluations, and the entire texts of some of its study books like “Cracking the LSAT” were also open to the public. Another folder on the site contained digital scans of eight official SAT and PSAT exams from 2005 to 2007 that included accompanying files explaining how The Princeton Review uses older exams to create practice tests.

Mike Haro, an analyst for Sophos, an Internet security firm, says the security mishap is an indication that The Princeton Review was not following “accepted” Internet-security protocol by keeping confidential files and innocuous files on the same computers. “In this case it would have made sense for the company to separate information such as names of the students from their test scores and whatever confidential information the company had,” Haro said. “But we are finding that companies today don’t change until they experience the pain of a data breach that is exposed to the public.

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GMAT Cheating Scandal Causes Students to Sweat Their Future

Student Loan Girl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:37:00 GMT

Over 6,000 MBA students have been implicated in a huge cheating scandal involving the website Scoretop which illegally provided “live” prep questions to students taking their Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT — the test that many MBA programs require for admission to graduate school, according to an article in Business Week (“GMAT Cheating Controversy Grows,” June 27, 2008).

Contrary to authorized test preparation companies like Kaplan or Manhattan GMAT which legally purchase retired test questions from GMAT to help prepare their member students, Scoretop extended 30-day VIP service to students who paid the $30-fee to access questions that were actively being used on GMAT exams.

On June 23, the Graduate Management Admission Council, the owner of the GMAT, won a lawsuit against Scoretop for copyright infringement, since Scoretop published the “live” GMAT questions online without permission. The judgment allowed the court to seize Scoretop’s hard drive, which contained payment and other data, and to identify more than 6,000 individuals who had paid for the website’s service.

GMAC originally said it would cancel the scores of all students who cheated on the exam, make sure they could never take the GMAT again, and notify the respective business schools of students who had cheated on the exam.

Robert Burgoyne, GMAC’s legal counsel recently said, however, that GMAC probably wouldn’t cancel the scores of all 6,000 Scoretop VIP members who took the test, just those who knew using the questions was illegal. “We'll look for something that actually links people to conduct they should have known was improper,” Burgoyne said.

MBA students across the country are justifiably nervous. Those who have applied to business schools and used the Scoretop website may have their scores cancelled and may not be able to apply to an MBA program in the future. And currently enrolled students may be thrown out of their MBA program.

“I am extremely stressed out,” one GMAT test-taker who used Scoretop questions commented in response to BusinessWeek.com's original story about the cheating scandal. “I am so upset and worried right now."

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New SAT Policy Gives Students Control Over What Scores Colleges See

Student Loan Girl — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:32:00 GMT

A new SAT scoring policy will give high school students the option to show only their best SAT score to college admissions officers and to prevent these school officials from seeing test-scores that were less-than-stellar.

Under the new policy, which goes into effect next year, students can take the widely used college entrance exam multiple times and send only the scores they want admissions officers to see, unlike the current policy in which colleges receive scores every time a student attempted the SAT.

The score-reporting change recently announced by the College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers the test, comes at a time when universities are placing less emphasis on standardized testing in choosing prospective freshmen and when the rival ACT exam is gaining popularity, according to the LA Times (“SAT Will Let Students Pick Which Scores to Show Colleges,” June 21, 2008). The new SAT scoring option emulates the ACT’s long-standing score-choice policy.

“It’s clearly a marketing move to try to fend off the growing perception that the ACT is a more consumer-friendly product,” says Robert Schaeffer, public education director of FairTest, an organization that monitors standardized tests for signs of bias (“Kids Can Pick Which SAT Scores a College Sees,” U.S. News World Report, June 24, 2008).

Changes Giving Affluent Students a Boost, Critics Say

Some high school counselors and college admissions officials have raised concerns that the SAT score-reporting change will give students who can afford to retake the $45-test multiple times an edge, writes U.S. News reporter Lucia Graves. But College Board officials say the criticisms are unfounded, contending that “there’s no advantage to taking the SAT more than twice, and our fee waivers let low-income students take the test [free] twice.”

The SAT’s score-reporting change is the latest shake-up to the standardized test that has been a college admission staple for decades. Just last week, the College Board announced that despite dramatic changes to the SAT that were designed to help colleges and universities better predict a student’s academic performance in college, the adjustments did not improve the overall reliability of the test.

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New SAT Test Fails to Show Improvements, College Board Finds

Student Loan Girl — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:09:00 GMT

Despite dramatic changes to the SAT that were designed to help colleges and universities better predict a student’s academic performance in college, the adjustments did not “substantially change” how accurately the test predicts first-year grades, according to data collected by the College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers the test.

Validity studies conducted by the board showed that the changes to the test, which included updated mathematics questions and the addition of a writing section, did show that more emphasis has been placed on writing instruction in the classroom, but didn’t do much to bolster the overall reliability of the test, wrote Inside Higher Ed reporter Scott Jaschik ("The New SAT: Longer, But No Better?," June 18, 2008).

The studies, Jaschik wrote, also support the findings of research conducted on the previous version of the SAT, that the single best way to predict a high school student’s performance during their freshman year of college is their high school grades, not a standardized test.

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Top-Rated Colleges Drop SAT Requirement for Admissions Applicants

Student Loan Girl — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:27:00 GMT

Smith College in Massachusetts and Wake Forest University in North Carolina recently joined the nearly 30 percent of all 760 four-year colleges and universities in the country that no longer require the submission of SAT or other standardized test scores as a condition for admission, according to an article on CNN.com (“More Colleges Move Toward Optional SATs,” May 30, 2008).

Although many other institutions have previously gone SAT and ACT-optional, Smith and Wake Forest are the first top-30 schools on U.S. News & World Report’s Top Liberal Arts Colleges list and Top National Universities list, respectively, to drop the requirement. Smith College ranked 17^th on 2008’s top liberal arts colleges list and Wake Forest came in 30^th out of the nation’s top universities.

"We in admissions have put up a barrier to these students to say all of your hard work and all of your academic achievement is being negated by one test, and we don't feel like that is fair," said Martha Allman, Wake Forest’s director of admissions, in the Chicago Tribune (“University to Drop Required ACT, SAT,” May 27, 2008).

Under the new policy, Wake Forest will still allow applicants to submit SAT and ACT scores if they choose, but will start placing more emphasis on personal interviews, academics, and extracurricular activities.

College consultant Jack Maguire, founder of Maguire Associates, believes that schools which become test-optional, like Wake Forest, focus their admissions decisions on what’s really important.

"I do think it improves a school's image," he said. "It shows… they're really interested in increasing diversity."

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Online Ordering Causing Mailroom Mayhem on College Campuses

Student Loan Girl — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:46:00 GMT

The internet has completely changed the way college campuses operate, from class offerings and registration to college admissions and financial aid services. Now the technology is changing the way campuses deliver and receive mail. As more college students gravitate to online shopping, college and university mailrooms are overhauling their mail processing operations to accommodate the influx of packages.

Some pretty bizarre ones at that.

Car tires, barbecues, dishwashers, ant farms and air conditioners are just some of the orders college students are having mailed to their dorm rooms, according to a New York Times article by Jonathan D. Glater (“Majoring in Mailroom Management,” Nov. 21, 2007).

When students make their online purchases they often give little thought to the cost let alone the effect their shipping volume or types of packages they’re ordering will have on the mail processing centers at their schools. But for some schools, the adjustment has not been simple or cheap.

Revolutionizing the Mailroom At a Cost

The University of Southern California, for example, has experienced double the amount of their typical package volume in the last four years, expecting to process more than 67,000 packages by the end of this year. It has spent thousands of dollars adjusting their mail processing systems by building a new highly-complex mailroom almost as large as half a volleyball court for just one of their residence halls, Glater reports.

“Some folks don’t realize the logistical implications,” said Jeff Urdahl, the recently retired director of housing at USC, told the Times. “It’s a different world.”

Although online shopping statistics don’t exist for the college age demographic, according to shop.org, a division of the National Retail Foundation, internet buying increased nearly $220 billion last year and this year it is expected to top $259 billion.

And how are students paying for these purchases? Most interviewed for the Times article said their online shopping splurges are financed by college jobs, savings and parental allowances, but many students are also resorting to their good friends Visa, Master Card and American Express.

But students’ online ordering habits are not only affecting theirs and their parents’ bank accounts, they are also proving costly for the schools themselves. SUNY Binghamton spent $25,000 to implement a new bar code scanning system to track the increase of incoming packages, which rose from 33,000 in 2002 to 57,000 this year. Purchase College, also in New York, spent $37,000 on a similar system.

For Arizona State University, the second largest university in the country, the process became so cumbersome, the school chose to wash its hands clean of the mail distribution process and turned over all mail responsibilities to UPS.

Mindless Internet Shopping Hurts Students and Schools

The effect of students’ online spending is not isolated to schools; students’ bank accounts are taking huge hits as well. Credit and debit card use, necessary for online shopping, makes it much more difficult for students to keep track of their spending and their account balances.

Some students told the Times that they may buy something off the internet three times a week. This has led college students, according to Young Money, a student financial magazine, to have credit balances averaging $2,700, and as the popularity of internet shopping continues to rise, these numbers may only go up.

Students like Sarah Staton, a first year student at USC, don’t mask their online shopping activities; however they don’t quite seem to understand the effects it has on their finances.

“I do buy a lot of things, but it’s O.K. because I buy things that are cheap,” she told the Times. She admits to shopping on the internet more than two hours a day, especially for shoes. “How can I make a fashion statement if I don’t have the right shoes that match what I’m wearing?”

With this type of attitude, it looks like college mail centers and students will have to keep expanding their wallets.

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America’s “Best” Colleges of 2008: Strategies for College-Bound Students to Compose Their Own List

Student Loan Girl — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Once again, U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of colleges and universities received hordes of criticism and its yearly flogging from university presidents and officials who take issue with the magazine’s grading system. Even despite the effort of a small group of college presidents to initiate a boycott of the magazine’s survey, school participation only diminished by seven percent this year.

Touted as having the most sought-after lists of academic rankings, U.S. News compiles 25 percent (the largest portion) of its survey from college officials’ ratings of their fellow institutions. The legitimacy of these rankings, particularly those of colleges and universities, comes under fire every year, with some administrators arguing that the ranking methods lead to distorted or spurious evaluations among competing schools attempting to vault themselves up in the standings.

As more and more students graduate high school with their eyes set on higher education, the notion of what makes a college the “best” or the “right” school for a larger and increasingly diverse pool of applicants becomes all the more complicated.

While the U.S. News listings carry a certain authority after having been around for 24 years, rank-watchers should bear in mind that the rating methodology only accounts for a few, measurable dimensions of college “quality.” There are plenty of intangibles that go into defining a total college experience, and parents and students should consider expanding the criteria for their search beyond just a ranking to get at what the numbers in a magazine can’t tell you.

· First-hand accounts. Your parents and siblings are probably more than willing to talk about their alma mater, so sit them down to get the inside scoop. Use your Facebook and MySpace time to scour groups and photos from the schools on your list and to chat with current students about their school’s programs and social activities.

· See for yourself. If you can, visit the schools on your list. Those pretty pictures on the brochure won’t give you the feel of what the midday rush is like on the quad. Explore on your own in addition to guided tours, to get a sense of the general vibe of the campus and surrounding areas. Pick up a copy of the college newspaper or check it out online. Read what other students are reading, writing, debating and thinking, and ask yourself—would you fit in here?

· No one school is good at everything. Top-50 NYU is a terrific choice if you’re an aspiring actor that wants in to their nationally renowned Tisch School of the Arts. But if you see yourself joining the Peace Corps or traveling all over the world as a service volunteer, your perfect path may be the Pre-Peace Corps, International, and Non-Governmental Service concentration offered at Tier 3 Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C.

If you’re interested in a particular major or career track, you can search schools by field of study at Petersons.com. Browse school websites to get a feel for how certain departments operate, what kinds of classes are offered, and contact professors within the department to see what kind of research is being done.

Other Sources of Information

The U.S. News rankings provide a decent starting point for getting a general idea of how big-name schools compare in certain areas, but they don’t offer in-depth information or the insider’s view that would give you an idea of what day-to-day life is like on campus.

Sites like CollegeBoard.com let you search schools by location, major and cost, just to name a few, and they offer tips for planning your college career and preparing for admissions. These sites are easy to navigate and will allow you to compare your schools across specific categories..

For your parents, we recommend The Thinking Parent’s Guide to College Admissions: The Step-by-Step Program to Get Kids Into the Schools of Their Dreams.

Talk to the education finance advisors at NextStudent. They have all the information and advice you need on student loans. Check out www.nextstudent.com.

Student Loan Girl

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Created Equal? The State of College Admissions

Student Loan Girl — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:28:00 GMT

At one time the United States could point to the fact that it was the highest educated nation in the world. Unfortunately, it does not appear that low-income students are getting a fair piece of that pie. This is especially true when you consider that it is largely those who come from wealthy families that get to attend the most prestigious institutions and get those degrees, year after year.

According to the Jan. 12, 2007 article by Peter Sacks titled “How Colleges Perpetuate Inequality” that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s The Chronicle Review, not much has changed in the last 30 or so years. Sacks reports the following:

“The chance of a low-income child obtaining a bachelor’s degree has not budged in three decades: Just 6 percent of students from the lowest-income families earned a bachelor’s degree by age 24 in 1970, and in 2002 still only 6 percent did. Lower still is that child’s chance of attending one of America’s top universities.”

This disturbing trend is explained in a book by Daniel Golden entitled The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges – and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, where Sacks says, it “details the myriad ways that, for those born with silver spoons, standards are relaxed and hands are held through every stage of the admissions process at selective colleges. In return for such favors, wealthy parents and donors lavish such institutions with money.”

Golden “Names Names”

As mentioned in the article, the book “names names and finds smoking guns.” Sacks gives examples such as “fudged academic standards for rich kids at the high price of ‘the integrity of [its] admissions process’” at one school and admitting “well over 50 percent” of family members of a group of wealthy donors where the institution’s admission rate is only 9 percent at another.

The article cites Golden’s book which suggests that the problem is mainly that, “elite colleges have largely ignored socioeconomic disadvantage in their calculations of merit and their definitions of diversity.”

No Easy Answers

Sacks admits that such low-income students have “few, if any advocates” and even fewer instances where programs at top schools benefit a tangible number of those in need. This is the case because schools including Harvard, University of Virginia and others “deliberately limit their numbers of low-income students.” I mentioned that fact in an earlier post when I discussed changes to state financial aid programs for lower-income students.

The answer, though a relatively straightforward one, would not be easy to implement. The article reports Golden’s solution, that colleges should “adhere to ‘wealth blind’ admissions: They should abolish preferences and build ethical fire walls between admissions and development offices to prevent conflicts of interest.”

The question remains, will a full-fledged reformation ever actually take place, especially when considering the amount of funds that come from wealthy donors to schools such as Harvard, who has an endowment that exceeds $25 billion?

Now that the current session of congress is in full force, hopefully low-income students and their families will reap the benefits and feel the widespread impact of new federal financial aid legislation.

It is important to keep up to date on all the news regarding student loans and education.

Talk to the education financial advisors at NextStudent. They have all the information and advice you need on student loans. Check out www.nextstudent.com.

Be sure to tune in next Monday for my next blog on student loan issues in the news.

Student Loan Girl

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