The Newest Way to Buy an Advantage in College Admissions: Why some parents are paying to make their teen a "peer reviewed" author. Rose Wong for ProPublica

The Supreme Court appears poised to curtail race-conscious affirmative action. College admissions staff, besieged by applicants proffering links to their studies, verify that a paper was published but are often at a loss to evaluate its quality. [...]ProPublica’s reporting shows that purveyors of on...

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Published in:The Chronicle of Higher Education 2023-06
Main Authors: Golden, Daniel, Purohit, Kunal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Admissions Officers
Affirmative action
Attitudes
College Admission
College admissions
College Applicants
Deans
Distance Education
Electronic Journals
Families & family life
Grade Inflation
Marketing
Medicine
Mentors
Parents
Periodicals
Preprints
Racial Factors
Sandwiches
Scholarly publishing
Social media
Student Journals
Students
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Summary:The Supreme Court appears poised to curtail race-conscious affirmative action. College admissions staff, besieged by applicants proffering links to their studies, verify that a paper was published but are often at a loss to evaluate its quality. [...]ProPublica’s reporting shows that purveyors of online research sometimes engage in questionable practices. Alongside hardcore science papers are ones with titles like “The Willingness of Humans to Settle on Mars, and the Factors That Affect It,” “Social Media; Blessing or Curse,” and “Is Bitcoin a Blessing or a Curse?” “You’re teaching students to be cynical about research,” said Kent Anderson, past president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and former publishing director of The New England Journal of Medicine. [...]admissions staff may rely on outside opinions.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362