Academic Index?

gibby
Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:55:58 +0000

^^ I should have said the process varies from college to college. There are some schools, like MIT for example, that specifically say they do not read all applications from a high school at one time. Other colleges do – or at least track all students from one high school together on an excel spreadsheet to make head-to head comparisons. Here’a Washington Post article on how some colleges go about the process: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/11/the-education-issue-does-anyone-read-all-those-college-applications-a-parent-finds-out/



Prospective students are listed alphabetically by high school. Across the top of the spreadsheet are more than 20 fields, such as region, grade-point average, midyear GPA, class rank (if available), ethnicity, whether the student is of athletic interest, whether he or she took the SAT (optional at Goucher) and the student’s contact history with the college. This constitutes the student’s personal row.