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Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Jeff Rickey is a numbers guy. But three years ago, a colleague asked him about something he'd never counted: applicants who came out of nowhere. The question intrigued Mr. Rickey, dean of admissions and financial aid at Earlham College in Indiana. He found that 17 percent of the college's applicants that year had not called, taken a tour, or…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Enrollment Management, Deans, College Applicants
Farrell, Elizabeth F.; Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
At the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (Nacac), admissions deans and high-school counselors gathered in September 2007 to grapple with questions such as: (1) Rethinking the role of standardized tests in admissions (many attendees predict that psychometric giants ACT and SAT, will not always dominate…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Psychometrics, School Counselors, College Admission