{"id":11378,"date":"2023-11-03T18:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2024-03-04T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:41:46","slug":"it-was-just-simple-elsy-marbeli-cruz-parra-27-tells-forbes-about-direct-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/03\/it-was-just-simple-elsy-marbeli-cruz-parra-27-tells-forbes-about-direct-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Was Just Simple,\u2019 Elsy-Marbeli Cruz-Parra \u201927 Tells Forbes About Direct Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11379 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/11\/forbes.png\" alt=\"Forbes\" width=\"200\" height=\"90\" \/>Forbes is the latest major media organization to highlight Augsburg\u2019s leadership in coverage of the growing trend of direct admissions nationally. First-year biology major Elsy-Marbeli Cruz-Parra \u201927 was interviewed for a Forbes \u2018daily cover\u2019 feature in late October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBy the end of October of 2022, based on her high school grades alone, she had been automatically admitted to 47 two-year or four-year colleges in Minnesota. \u201cIt was relieving,\u201d says Cruz-Parra, the first in her family to attend college,\u201d wrote reporter Emma Whitford.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCruz was one of the lucky 7,340 students tapped to participate in the first year of Minnesota\u2019s state-run direct admissions pilot program. \u201cHearing from other seniors who weren\u2019t in the direct admissions program, they were like \u2018You have that? God, I have to write essays and get recommendations\u2019 \u2026 It was just simple. I had all my top colleges already there.\u201d She\u2019s now a freshman at Augsburg University, nine miles from her hometown of Richfield, following a pre-med track with a major in biology. She chose Augsburg because of its small class sizes, its location (she\u2019s commuting), and because she received a $30,000 a year scholarship to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Read the full piece in Forbes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emmawhitford\/2023\/11\/02\/hundreds-of-colleges-now-offer-automatic-admission-to-students\/?sh=5ecc222f37ea\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cHundreds Of Colleges Now Offer Automatic Admission To Students\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes is the latest major media organization to highlight Augsburg\u2019s leadership in coverage of the growing trend of direct admissions nationally. First-year biology major Elsy-Marbeli Cruz-Parra \u201927 was interviewed for a Forbes \u2018daily cover\u2019 feature in late October.\u00a0 \u201cBy the end of October of 2022, based on her high school grades alone, she had been &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3995,3998],"class_list":["post-11378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-augsburg-applies-to-you","tag-direct-admissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378","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=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}