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Mabel, Zachary; Hurwitz, Michael D.; Howell, Jessica; Perfetto, Greg – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Many selective colleges consider the backgrounds of applicants to improve equity in admissions. However, this information is usually not available for all applicants. We examine whether the chances of admission and enrollment changed after 43 colleges gained access to a new tool that standardizes information on educational disadvantage for all…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Disadvantaged, Equal Education
Samantha B. Kane – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This paper studies the impact of state reproductive rights laws on women's human capital decisions after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022). Using data from the Common App, the undergraduate college admission application, I implement a…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, College Applicants, Females, High Achievement
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Soltys, Michael; Dang, Hung D.; Reyes Reilly, Ginger; Soltys, Katharine – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2021
A Machine Learning framework for predicting enrollment is proposed. The framework consists of Amazon Web Services SageMaker together with standard Python tools for data analytics, including Pandas, NumPy, MatPlotLib, and ScikitLearn. The tools are deployed with Jupyter Notebooks running on AWS SageMaker. Based on three years of enrollment history,…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, Prediction, Computer Software
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Mogaji, Emmanuel; Yoon, Hyunsun – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: Prospective students are exposed to abundant choices, and they are eagerly searching for information to select the best universities for themselves. Likewise, prospectuses are regularly produced by universities to meet this information needs; the purpose of this paper is to examine the key marketing messages used in their prospectuses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marketing, Universities, College Choice
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Gu, X.; Blackmore, K. L. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
This paper presents the results of a systematic review of agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) applications in the higher education (HE) domain. Agent-based modelling is a "bottom-up" modelling paradigm in which system-level behaviour (macro) is modelled through the behaviour of individual local-level agent interactions (micro).…
Descriptors: Simulation, Higher Education, Role, Models
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George, Micael S., Jr.; Soares, Caio V.; Gilbert, Juan E. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
Obtaining diversity among admitted applicants is often a challenging task for most post secondary institutions. As a proposed solution to this challenge, Applications Quest (AQ) was created. AQ addresses the dilemma of how to achieve diversity while still upholding institutional academic standards and objectives while adhering to the law. A steady…
Descriptors: Ethics, College Admission, Student Diversity, College Applicants