Method and system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions

#This application relates to a method and system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions and, more specifically, to administration of admission offers from educational institutions to anonymized students who have not applied directly to the educational intuitions.

#There are over 25,000 educational institutions in the world, collectively offering hundreds of thousands of programs of study. Students looking to higher education have an enormous range of possible choices, limited only by their academic performance, budget, ability to travel, and other constraints. In practice, there are too many choices for most students and families to understand and navigate. As a result, most students around the world typically choose their higher education from among a small set of institutions that are geographically nearby, or that they have heard of from a friend, advisor, or advertisement. It follows that many students fail to consider a vast majority of higher education options and, as a result, miss the opportunity to develop their full potential.

#In addition to there being too many choices and too little information, students must apply to each of their chosen institutions using processes that are tedious and stressful. Educational institutions may each have different application requirements, processes, and deadlines, and the outcomes are unpredictable. Students must often wait weeks or months to determine whether their applications have been accepted, and have little time to react if they are denied entry to their top choices. Some students inadvertently apply to educational institutions beyond their academic reach and end up with no admission offers. Others fail to take advantage of advanced application techniques such as Early Decision, with the result that many seats at the best institutions go to more privileged students who can afford to hire college counselors to help them navigate the system more skillfully. The complexity of the process and information asymmetry often lead to suboptimal, unfair outcomes for students, at a deplorable cost in global human capital.

#The drawings, described below, are for illustrative purposes only and are not necessarily drawn to scale. The drawings are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure in any way. Wherever possible, the same or like reference numbers are used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions according to the embodiments disclosed herein.

#FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a database configuration implemented within the system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions according to the embodiments disclosed herein.

#As mentioned above, this application relates to a method and system for administration of admission offers from educational institutions and, more specifically, to the administration of admission offers from educational institutions to anonymized students that have not applied directly to the educational intuitions.

#The present application describes a system and method in which students do not need to send applications to specific universities, but instead, publish universal student profiles in such a manner that any higher education institution, anywhere in the world, can discover them, assess their profiles, and make admission offers, with no applications required. The effect is to shift the work of matching students and university programs to the universities, who have the best understanding of their programs and entry requirements, and are therefore more qualified than students to determine suitable matches. Students no longer need to agonize over which university programs might be best, apply, and hope for admission. Instead, they can publish a profile that puts their best foot forward, assess university admission offers as they come in, and choose whichever offer they like best. The investment of effort is dramatically reduced since the students need only complete one profile instead of sending many applications, there is no application process to navigate, and students can discover academic programs that they might never have known about since the universities discover them, rather than the other way around. The resulting system and method are simpler, fairer, and less stressful for students. It will increase global access to higher education by connecting students to education opportunities on a larger scale and removing barriers.

#The key challenges in building such a system and method are creating trust between the parties and protecting student privacy. Universities need to trust the student information they are assessing, and students need to know that their academic and personal information are being kept private. The embodiment disclosed herein offers a solution to both challenges. Student privacy is protected through anonymization and trust between the parties is established with a system and method of certifiers and certification notices.