Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The New College Application by Eliza Gray

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 18, 2016
Article: The New College Application
Page: 47
Author:  Eliza Gray
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Questions
1. Who won a state title in tennis?
2. What is ZeeMee?
3. Why are some of the colleges and universities dropping or de-emphasizing standardized tests as an admissions requirement?
4. What type of students are the colleges and universities trying to find?
5. What is the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success?
6. What is the coalition trying to do?
7. How many degree-granting schools exist in the U.S.?
8. What did the Justice Department end in 1991?
9. When did the common Application start?
10. How many college admission applications did Stanford University receive this year?
11. What percentage of all the applicants did Stanford University accept?
12. What four things do you need to do in order to have a leg up on the college acceptance process?
13. Who said students are prepping for college admissions in 8th grade?
14. The digital locker is meant as an outreach tool.  True or False
15. How will students be informed of the digital locker?
16. Who will review the digital lockers before the high school students submit them to colleges?
17. Who said that the coalition is an attempt to create an exclusive pipeline to the next generation of students?
18. What does this statement by the President of Bard College, mean to you?  "They (Coalition) think they can mask their naked self-interest through virtue.  It allows them to recruit earlier.  This is a market-cornering enterprise."
19. What are the buzz-words coming from admissions offices?
20. In this whole article, which sentence stood out to you?  Copy that sentence here
21. What did that sentence from question #20 mean to you?
22. Why is this sentence from question #20 important to you?

Reference
http://time.com/author/eliza-gray/
https://www.zeemee.com/
http://www.coalitionforcollegeaccess.org/
http://www.collegetransitions.com/
http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/details/?id=7

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