Web Resources

Below, you will find some helpful web resources that can reveal interesting facts about the college admissions process. 

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=43448

This article explains the affirmative action process and how it affects both minority and non-minority students. 

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Problem-With-In-State/128371/

This article investigates the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition and explains how this can affect both a student's chances of admission and his or her ability to actually attend the school once admitted. 

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/18/4422148/out-of-state-student-admissions.html

This article uses the UC system as an example of how colleges are accepting more and more out-of-state students in recent years. This is because out-of-state tuition is drastically higher than in-state-tuition. Colleges value out-of-state students solely for the money that they bring. 

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=8a0cf908-a83b-4ba8-9efb-286cb4c6b6e5%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n5h&AN=J0E027856954809

This article explains that more women are applying to college today than men. This is why colleges hold men to slightly lower standards for admission. They want to ensure that their student bodies are roughly half men and half women, so they may turn away more women applicants. 

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=c79ce529-71f3-4930-b746-ab3d7b76017c%40sessionmgr114&vid=1&hid=114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n5h&AN=2W6430905142

This article discusses how colleges hold recruited athletes to drastically lower academic standards than regular applicants. This discrepancy can actually end up hurting the student-athletes by placing them in academic environments where they would not originally be able to be accepted to.