Using a variety of assessment tools along with standardized test scores offers admissions officers at Tufts a broader method for evaluating applicants. The Tufts Kaleidoscope Project, as it is called, inserted analytical, creative, practical and wisdom-based essays as part of the Tufts-specific admissions application. The […]
Categories: Conference - Public Lecture (day 3)
Sternberg’s PowerPoint presentation includes sample questions for how to determine intelligences other than analytical intelligence. Short story tasks, where an applicant chooses two titles out of twelve to write about; oral stories, where an applicant sees a collage of images and then tells […]
Categories: Conference - Public Lecture (day 3)
“Intelligence is not an IQ test measurement but rather a person’s ability to set goals in life and determine how to achieve them. A scientist has different methods for achieving a goal than a poet. Intelligent people recognize and capitalize on their strengths and compensate […]
Categories: Conference - Public Lecture (day 3)
Rethinking Admissions conference may have officially ended on Thursday, April 16th, but the conversation about college admissions is far from over. Tomorrow, April 21, Wake Forest will host Robert J. Sternberg, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. Dr. Sternberg is […]
The New York Times and Chronicle of Higher Education have been doing a great job blogging about the Rethinking Admissions conference. The Times’ education writer Jacques Steinberg wrote about the conference on his new blog called “The Choice,” which examines all facets of the […]
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Wake Forest director of admissions Martha Allman was pleased with the conference. “The quality of research presented and the variety of viewpoints made this an important event in furthering the conversation on college admissions. I hope what will happen now is a closer examination of […]
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At the end of the sessions on college rankings, Jeffrey Brenzel of Yale said that he, Robert Morse of U.S. News, and Richard Vedder of Ohio University, agreed on three points: that families need information and ways to compare colleges; that there are limits to […]
Categories: Conference Session (day 2)
In response to this question, Jeffrey Brenzel, the admissions director at Yale, explained that there has been a movement to boycott the reputation survey portion of the U.S. News and World Report rankings, and many schools, including Yale, refuse to fill out this portion of […]
Categories: Conference Session (day 2)
Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University, is developing a new ranking system for Forbes magazine. The Forbes ranking focuses more on student preferences and outcome measurements than U.S. News, he said. He gave an impassioned defense of rankings: Colleges are in a […]
Categories: Conference Session (day 2)
Robert Morse, director of data research from U.S. News & World Report, said colleges have made the U.S. News ranking the power that it is. U.S. News doesn’t market it’s ratings or push its product, he said. The colleges are using our rankings as validation, […]
Categories: Conference Session (day 2)
