25% of College Admissions Officers report outside pressure

[davidthefat]

<p>[College</a> clout: Some admissions officials report outside pressure - chicagotribune.com](<a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-admissions-survey-0921-20110921,0,5507311.story]College”>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-admissions-survey-0921-20110921,0,5507311.story)</p>

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About a quarter of college and university admissions officers experience pressure from senior-level administrators, trustees and donors to admit some applicants, according to a first-of-its-kind survey of admissions leaders.</p>

<p>The national survey, from the online publication Inside Higher Ed, found that among all four-year colleges, 27.8 percent of admissions officials said they received pressure from senior administrators, and 23.6 percent experienced pressure from trustees and donors. A greater share of private university officials said they were subject to pressure compared with their public university counterparts.

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[poetgrl]

<p>Interestingly, I have heard that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning. ;)</p>

[b_r_um]

<p>That number is actually surprisingly low. 75% of all admission officers have never been under outside pressure to admit a student of special interest? I wonder how to interpret that number. Are admission politics not an issue at a large number of colleges or is the pressure typically directed at a small group of admission officers (e.g. the highest-ranking ones) at any single college?</p>