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Interview 116: Jon Boeckenstedt on "Miscellaneous Topics"
Interview 116: Jon Boeckenstedt on "Miscellaneous Topics"Interview 115: Jon Boeckenstedt on “Ethical vs Unethical Admissions”
- Jon shares his very interesting backstory
- Jon tells us what Draw rate is and why it is so important
- Jon explains what he means by, “we all serve two masters”
- Jon rates a number of admission business practices from 0-100 on whether they cross a line of impropriety
- Jon rates, “targeting students in your recruitment that are outside the profile of who you normally admit”.
- Jon explains what he means by “grist for the rejection mill” and the “admissions industrial complex”.
- Jon rates using demonstrated interest and gives it a score, but he has some caveats.
- Jon rates taking a large number of students through Early Decision.
- Jon shares when ED feels appropriate and when it isn’t
- Jon talks about using Early Action as a tool to flip students to commit Early Decision
- Jon talks about learning from how a college treats you in the application process
- Jon comments on his perspective on the propriety or impropriety of saying that a college meets 100% of need
- Jon also comments on whether any college is really need-blind.
- Jon talks why he likes the term “FAFSA-blind” better than “need-blind”.
- Jon talks about what he means by saying graduation rates are more input than output data
- Jon tells us a responsible way to use graduation rate as a statistical metric
- Jon tells us why IPEDS is such a great source of data
