Written by: Scott Jaschik
Published by: Inside Higher Ed on 7/11/2022
MBA News Digest Comment: While not yet available for GME programs, what if the offering is expanded to include graduate level matching?
Extracted Content: Movement grows with a second company offering a service in which students create profiles and colleges admit them.
Davis & Elkins College is a small institution (a little more than 700 students) in a beautiful part of West Virginia, surrounded by the Allegheny Highlands. Like most colleges, it admits most of those who apply. This year, the college admitted about 700 students of the 975 applicants, aiming for a class of 250 to 300.
In the fall, the college plans to consider some students who haven’t actually applied for admission at all. They will be students who have created profiles through Sage Scholars, which has offered a service since 1995 to help students afford college. This year, in addition to presenting students whom colleges might want to recruit to apply, Sage will also offer some of its several hundred members the chance to look at the profiles (which will contain the interests, grades and test scores of students who have them) and admit students directly.