Big Changes Coming in College Admission?

From Gay Glyburn, Carnegie Foundation

THE END OF COLLEGE ADMISSIONS AS WE KNOW IT
If you want to buy shares of stock, bid on antiques, search for a job, or look for Mr. Right in 2011, you will likely go to a marketplace driven by the electronic exchange of information. There will be quick, flexible transactions, broad access to buyers and sellers, and powerful algorithms that efficiently match supply and demand. If you are a student looking for a college or a college looking for a student, by contrast, you’re stuck with an archaic, over-complicated, under-managed system that still relies on things like bus trips to airport convention centers and the physical transmission of pieces of paper. That’s why under-matching is so pervasive. The higher education market only works for students who have the resources to overcome its terrible inefficiency. Everyone else is out of luck. Kevin Carey writes in Washington Monthly that all that is about to change and everything we know about college admissions is about to go out the window.

 

 

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