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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Univ Prof here. I agree with the main observation of this thread. Admissions offices are being staffed, on average, by poorly trained and poorly educated folks (who are, in general, MUCH less able than folks they are screening). Fact of life and it will not change.[/quote]

Seriously?

I've yet to meet an admissions person who is "MUCH less able than folks they are screening." I've met a variety of folks with a variety skills - none in the "MUCH less" category.

Also, did you not get the memo that many PT AO staff are work study students and many entry-level FT employees are recent college grads. That reflects more on their professors than anything else.

But if this is the case on your campus, then what steps are you taking to increase pay in order to attract better trained and educated talent (as well as what improvements are you making in your classroom to improve the quality of your college's grads?)?[/quote]

Raising pay means either raising tuition or cutting somewhere else. Neither will happen just so that AOs can make more money [/quote]

Then don't disparage those willing to do the work for low pay. [/quote]
dp.. sure,  but, it is pretty bad AOs are people who are paid almost minimum wage, some with zero qualifications.

I don't blame the AO. I blame the colleges for doing that.  If they really wanted quality AOs, they'd find a way to pay them more out of the endowment without having to raise tuition.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

The whole college admissions is just a farce.[/quote]

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