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Resources For Colleges

Character Assessment in College Admission: How to Start

This document includes action steps that colleges can take right away in character assessment.

This document is intended to serve as a starting point for those admission leaders who are deciding where to begin. Information is offered on how colleges might send signals to students about their values, study attributes and skills of successful and unsuccessful students, build support with university leadership, and more.

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Sign the Deans Commitment Letter (2019)

We invite college admissions leaders to join their colleagues across the United States in signing the Deans Commitment Letter (2019). The Deans Commitment Letter is a pioneering statement endorsed by more than 140 college admissions deans, which seeks to clear up misconceptions about what admissions offices value in applicants and affirms the value of high school educators, parents, and students shaping curricular and related decisions at the high school level.

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Endorse the Turning the Tide Goals

We invite college admissions leaders to join over 200 colleagues across the United States who have endorsed Turning the Tide. Turning the Tide focuses on the following goals in admissions: Developing greater concern for others and the common good among high school students; Increasing equity and access for disadvantaged students; and Reducing excessive achievement pressure. Please note that endorsement indicates that you agree in general with the ideas and recommendations, not that you necessarily agree with and will seek to implement every specific idea and recommendation.

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