No matter what question is asked on a college application, admission officers are looking to see how well you convey your ideas and express yourself in writing.
To mitigate the selection problem, we control for school-specific fixed effects, as well as very flexible application-admissions pattern fixed effects.
Each regression also contains controls for parental education, family income by cohort, college, college selectivity tier by cohort, and UC application-admission pattern fixed effects that account for the intended major listed on each application.
While there are 7 to the 8th power application-admission patterns that are theoretically possible, we only observe 11,281 unique combinations for intending STEM majors and 30,803 for all students in our sample.
Yale University has also reported that it received 4,310 early applications for admission, an 18 percent decrease from last year's figure, perhaps influenced by the reinstatement of early admissions at Harvard and Princeton University this fall.
Donations and applications for admission are on the rise.
University officials said they had a record number of applications for admission, which reached 32,130 for the 2007-8 school year.
And so, at the urging of some black leaders in town, Charlayne and Turner High School's valedictorian, Hamilton Holmes, challenged segregation at the University of Georgia by sending in applications for admission.
In January, the committee of New York lawyers that reviews applications for admission to the bar interviewed Mr. Bowman, studied his history and the debt he had amassed, and called his persistence remarkable.
