{"id":11057,"date":"2022-11-10T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2022-11-10T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:05:10","slug":"the-wall-street-journal-highlights-augsburgs-admissions-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/10\/the-wall-street-journal-highlights-augsburgs-admissions-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wall Street Journal Highlights Augsburg\u2019s Admissions Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-10-at-2.01.38-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11058 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-10-at-2.01.38-PM-300x37.png\" alt=\"The Wall Street Journal wordmark in black text.\" width=\"300\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-10-at-2.01.38-PM-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-10-at-2.01.38-PM.png 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Wall Street Journal highlighted Augsburg\u2019s efforts to streamline and simplify the admissions process in a recent article about the growth of direct admissions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAugsburg University in Minnesota is participating in direct-admission pilots with the Common Application and with the state of Minnesota, and cut its own application to be completed in an average of seven minutes,\u201d noted reporter Melissa Korn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The piece quotes a Richfield high school senior who received several college offers through Direct Admissions Minnesota, the state\u2019s pilot program. Augsburg has already connected with 184 students through the state pilot, nearly half of whom weren\u2019t previously on the school\u2019s radar. As of early November, the shift to direct admissions has accompanied a 44% increase in applications over last year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full article in: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/more-colleges-offering-admission-to-students-who-never-applied-11668089120?st=fgttqh1gcmc1sq0&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Colleges Offering Admission to Students Who Never Applied<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal highlighted Augsburg\u2019s efforts to streamline and simplify the admissions process in a recent article about the growth of direct admissions.\u00a0 \u201cAugsburg University in Minnesota is participating in direct-admission pilots with the Common Application and with the state of Minnesota, and cut its own application to be completed in an average of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3998,944,3539],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-direct-admissions","tag-enrollment-management","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}