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High application volumes allow On Deck to remain selective even as enrollment grows.

ASU is an example of what President Crow and his colleague, William Dabars, call the “New American University”, a model that they hope other public research universities will emulate. There are a bunch of interesting aspects to this model, but the most striking, in my view, has been to throw away the Ivy League playbook, rejecting the idea that a... See more

ASU might run like a business, but they seem to actually be running well.

ASU embraces a high acceptance rate, admitting 86 percent of applicants, compared to Harvard’s 5 percent. Far from “lowering their standards,” Crow and Dabars see this as a fulfillment of their mission to provide a quality, affordable education to more people. The high acceptance rate is a starting point for ASU, not a backwards reflection of their... See more

Most admissions officers at elite universities genuinely want to see each candidate as a whole person. They genuinely want to build a campus with a diverse community and a strong learning environment. But they, like the rest of us, are enmeshed in the mechanism that segregates not by what we personally admire, but by what the system, typified by... See more

The problem for Lewis and his fellow professors was the Boston Globe's 2001 discovery that more than half of Harvard College grades were A's and A-minuses, and that more than 90 percent of graduates earned honors. A New York Times article declared, “Harvard, long a center of excellence in so many forms, is becoming known as a pioneer in grade

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