{"id":2658,"date":"2018-11-09T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:27:11","slug":"icymi-nacac-releases-annual-state-of-college-admission-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/icymi-nacac-releases-annual-state-of-college-admission-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: NACAC Releases Annual State of College Admission Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How do colleges build a freshman class? NACAC’s\u00a0 annual State of College Admission<\/em><\/a> report\u00a0\u2014 released on Thursday\u00a0\u2014 offers students, parents, and others a peek at the various factors weighed when reviewing applications.<\/p>\n

Now in its 15th<\/sup> year, the report continues to emphasize the importance of academic performance in the admission process. Altogether, colleges on average accept nearly two-thirds of first-time freshmen, with students\u2019 grades and the academic rigor of their course loads weighing more heavily in decisions to admit than standardized test scores, high school class rank, or demonstrated interest in attending.<\/p>\n

But other factors also play a role. For example, 22 percent of colleges rated the high school a student attended as at least moderately important in admission decisions for first-time freshmen. And roughly half of all colleges attributed some level of influence to alumni relations when accessing the applications of such students.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis report reminds us that college admission decisions are highly contextualized, institution-specific endeavors that make simplistic descriptions difficult,\u201d NACAC CEO Joyce Smith said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cAdmission officers consider a wide range of factors when reviewing applications. Understanding the context in which a student\u2019s record exists is an important component of evaluating what might make a student successful in higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Download the report.<\/a><\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do colleges build a freshman class? NACAC’s\u00a0 annual State of College Admission report\u00a0\u2014 released on Thursday\u00a0\u2014 offers students, parents, and others a peek at the various factors weighed when reviewing applications. Now in its 15th year, the report continues to emphasize the importance of academic performance in the admission process. Altogether, colleges on average … Continue reading ICYMI: NACAC Releases Annual State of College Admission Report<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","category-nacac-news","tag-state-of-college-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-GS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}