ADMISSIONS OFFICER DEMOGRAPHICS AND STATISTICS IN THE US

[Anonymous]

Would be interesting to see the same for elite schools.

Only 4.6% of AO are Asian, while at elite schools a much larger % are Asian. Such a discrepancy could make it easy for many to view Asians stereotypically rather than as individuals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ADMISSIONS OFFICER DEMOGRAPHICS AND STATISTICS IN THE US

Research Summary. Using a database of 30 million profiles, Zippia estimates demographics and statistics for admissions officers in the United States. Our estimates are verified against BLS, Census, and current job openings data for accuracy. After extensive research and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:

There are over 13,262 admissions officers currently employed in the United States.
58.6% of all admissions officers are women, while 41.4% are men.
The average age of an employed admissions officer is 46 years old.
The most common ethnicity of admissions officers is White (67.8%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (13.6%), Black or African American (11.5%) and Asian (4.6%).

15% of all admissions officers are LGBT.
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Interesting facts.

And your point is? A quick google search shows 19% of the US is Hispanic and 13% is Black. So those statistics look about right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
58.6% of all admissions officers are women, while 41.4% are men.

I'm sure this is completely unconnected to college now being 55% women and 45% men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Caps don’t offend me if copy/pasted. I found the data interesting. It bothers me that 15% of AO’s are gay. Being gay/binary/trans has become too much of a hook when most of these kids are privileged and probably won’t face much discrimination in life. I feel elite schools are recruiting too narrowly. You end up with a student body composed of very leftist students intolerant of free speech. Like those Yale kids vowing to follow conservatives around 24 hours a day to make their life unbearable.

I kind of understand your perspective, since I live in Takoma Park (an affirming environment for LGBTQ), but, not having walked in the shoes of someone who is LGBTQ, I think this is a gross simplification. Sure, in my neighborhood, most LGBTQ kids are privileged and well supported, but that is really a minority overall. And, as a country, we have a long way to go to truly include LGBTQ perspective. I, frankly, think this number should be higher overall. The LGBTQ movement is really just expressing something that was always there but rarely represented. The kinsey report supports that.

I do not think of LGBTQ kids as leftist in political terms, but the left is the only part of the spectrum to affirm their identity. As the right embraces dogma and forced narrative over data and lived experience, it divorces itself from higher ed. It's not a case of "being leftist."

-- Former right leaning evangelical who is now left leaning evangelical and mom to LGBTQ kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Caps don’t offend me if copy/pasted. I found the data interesting. It bothers me that 15% of AO’s are gay. Being gay/binary/trans has become too much of a hook when most of these kids are privileged and probably won’t face much discrimination in life. I feel elite schools are recruiting too narrowly. You end up with a student body composed of very leftist students intolerant of free speech. Like those Yale kids vowing to follow conservatives around 24 hours a day to make their life unbearable.

I bet you are white. With 67.8% AOs being white you are whining 15% LGBTQ AOs will give preference to students of their kind and by implication you mean your kid’s chances to elite colleges will diminish. By that token, how should Asian parents and students should feel since only 4.6% AOs are Asian (I guess the source of the survey and data didn’t even call them Asian American. By the way, Asian isn’t a single ethnicity or race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Caps don’t offend me if copy/pasted. I found the data interesting. It bothers me that 15% of AO’s are gay. Being gay/binary/trans has become too much of a hook when most of these kids are privileged and probably won’t face much discrimination in life. I feel elite schools are recruiting too narrowly. You end up with a student body composed of very leftist students intolerant of free speech. Like those Yale kids vowing to follow conservatives around 24 hours a day to make their life unbearable.

I bet you are white. With 67.8% AOs being white you are whining 15% LGBTQ AOs will give preference to students of their kind and by implication you mean your kid’s chances to elite colleges will diminish. By that token, how should Asian parents and students should feel since only 4.6% AOs are Asian (I guess the source of the survey and data didn’t even call them Asian American. By the way, Asian isn’t a single ethnicity or race.

Being an AO would be slumming for an Asian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
58.6% of all admissions officers are women, while 41.4% are men.

I'm sure this is completely unconnected to college now being 55% women and 45% men.

And how much those jobs pay. Admissions officers are pretty low on the pay scale - which is already lower than corporate salaries - in higher Ed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
58.6% of all admissions officers are women, while 41.4% are men.

I'm sure this is completely unconnected to college now being 55% women and 45% men.

And how much those jobs pay. Admissions officers are pretty low on the pay scale - which is already lower than corporate salaries - in higher Ed.

If they are ambitious, they will treat it as a stepping stone to a lucrative counseling career after 10 years in the trenches, preferably at more than one hard target or reach school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Admission officer probably covers everyone from the counselor just out of college to the Vice President with decades of experience.

Yes. Especially given the average age is 46.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
58.6% of all admissions officers are women, while 41.4% are men.

I'm sure this is completely unconnected to college now being 55% women and 45% men.

The male/female ratio mirrors the ratio of applications. A million more women applied to college last year than men.