Bob Johnson
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Marshall, Michigan
Joined November 2008
Call in someone from Dropbox who can keep and transit data securely. Don't call someone from College Board, a firm that has trouble keeping student data private.
goodwinlaw.com
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When people say the SAT has somehow become a tool to find the high-achieving, low-income, students of color despite the last 50 years of it being the opposite.
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My friends at Human Capital Research Corporation have put up their own, easy-to-navigate FAFSA tracker. Take a look here, and feel free to share widely: https://t.co/6T8bZLYMwB
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It would be an understatement to say that many financial-aid officers are deeply concerned about @usedgov’s plan to NOT reprocess all FAFSA affected by errors. I’ll have a follow-up to this story, about that plan, soon. https://t.co/jn01QL3rBn
chronicle.com
After new details about inconsistent data on the federal-aid form came to light, colleges are asking what’s next.
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Redux: I do not care if colleges go back to the SAT. Doesn't affect me. I do care when they distort their reasons for doing so. And I do care when journalists take colleges' pre-packaged BS justifications and just run with them on faith. Because that does affect me.
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Thread: College: We need the SAT to find low-income, first-generation, and students of color. Journalist: <scribbles down quote> <thinks> It says here your numbers of Pell and students of color rose when you went test-optional
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Given the continuing and newly-revealed issues with FAFSA, I cannot begin to understand how anyone is sticking with a May 1 deadline for first-year students, unless you really don't care about students who need aid.
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In a world where some students still can’t complete the FAFSA, through no fault of their own, it’s sure good to know that admissions deans at some tiny “elite” colleges can look into the eyes of an applicant and, um, see their soul. 🙄🙄🙄
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Everyone needs to demand accountability from the people at @usedgov including @SecCardona for this horrible clustermuck with FAFSA. Educational opportunities are in peril for students who need the most support. We don't need more chest-thumping letters. We need this fixed.
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Some institutions are doing you a favor by showing just how much they care about students before you have to commit. (Or maybe they're showing you how much they loathe students who need to wait for aid awards to decide.) But ask for an extension, regardless.
Despite near religious following of @JonBoeckenstedt, here’s a piece I didn’t understand until today: It doesn’t really help that some colleges extend their deadline to June 1 if all colleges don’t. How to compare & choose when you still have to decide by May 1 for some schools?
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New: The latest FAFSA fix for the most vulnerable families is a work in progress.
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“Colleges care about diversity and equity, but they also care about academic excellence.” I mean, they're not even trying to disguise it anymore. I'd say diversity and equity are a fundamental part of academic excellence, not opposite ends of the spectrum. @ProfDavidDeming
"Test-optional admissions may sound like a reasonable approach, but in practice, it adds significant complexity to an already-bewildering college-application process—and complexity tends to harm the already disadvantaged," @ProfDavidDeming writes:
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Two more institutions announced that they were continuing their test-optional policies today.
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More like this, please.
“To the MANY, minority athletes at UF, please be aware and vocal about the decision by the University who is now closing the doors on other minorities without any oversight,” Smith wrote. “And to those who think it’s not your problem and stay on the …”
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Word on the street is that Brown is currently trying to come up with a new socially acceptable way to say "We really just like the SAT" without saying, "We really just like the SAT." Maybe we could crowd source some language for them.
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