admissions
ETS offers personality test for graduate admissions
Educational Testing Service, the company that administers the Graduate Record Exam, is offering a new personality index tool for graduate applications this fall for a fee of $20 per report, but most schools are waiting to see if it is worthwhile.
How to advertise the University in the recession
Although the economy has forced Washington University to cut costs in multiple areas, prospective students continue to receive a large amount of literature advertising the University.
Score Choice aims to reduce test anxiety
The College Board has announced changes in their method of reporting SAT scores to colleges in an attempt to offer students greater control over how their applications look to admissions officers.
The new policy, called Score Choice, will allow students to choose which of their SAT and SAT Subject Test scores colleges and universities will be [...]
Need-blind admissions should be a priority
Even in the midst of economic uncertainty, it is important to analyze the deeper values and principles of education rather than to make decisions on the basis on finance. When it comes to admissions, Washington University has always faced a dilemma: Should it consider the applicants’ ability to pay for [...]
Private colleges see fewer applications in tough times
As the current state of the economy forces many families to rearrange their budgets, many private universities are seeing a decline in the number of applicants this year.
At small private colleges and universities, the effects of the economy on applications have been significant. Although the number of early decision and early action applicants is consistent [...]
Nanette Tarbouni to leave WU
After calling Washington University home for the past 25 years, Director of Undergraduate Admissions Nanette Tarbouni will begin a new chapter in her professional life starting this summer: high school.
Tarbouni has been named director of college counseling at John Burroughs School, effective July 1. Tarbouni will succeed Andy Abbott, who will become the next headmaster [...]
WU applicants unaffected by financial crisis
Despite the growing financial crisis, admissions counselors at high schools and students applying to Washington University do not believe that there will be a drop in the number of University applicants for the 2008-2009 admission year.
Admission offices poke around Facebook
As more employers have begun to use social networking Web sites like Facebook as a hiring tool, college admissions officers have begun to use Facebook profiles as a factor in accepting or denying applicants.
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