Role of Waitlists in College Admissions
Project Description
Role of Waitlists in College Admissions
A partnership with Chronicle of Higher Education to understand and address a key technology challenge.
Project Details
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Community Partner: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Data Categories: Social Science Keywords: education, higher education, admissions Data Type: Tabular Data
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Project Year: 2024
Project Resources
The Challenge
This project aims to collect waitlist data for R1 universities from multiple years of Common Data Set forms and analyze it to: (1) determine trends in the size of waitlists; and (2) determine trends in in the number of students admitted from the waitlist — with special attention given to how waitlist acceptance rates may have been affected by the pandemic.