Published a while back. Has anyone tried this?
“A group of Stanford students have discovered a way to access their own confidential admissions files — including comments by admissions officers, criticisms of their applications, and information about how their status as minorities, athletes, or legacies affected their applications…”
Read carefully – “a group of Stanford students”. Until you are actually enrolled at a college they don’t have to give you access. The students that really want to know what the adcoms think are the ones that got turned down, and they can’t find out.
Anyone know how this would be done at other colleges like duke?
There’s a reason this story went off the radar.
I am not an attorney, but I have been briefed several time regarding what records are – and are not – FERPA included. It is my understanding (and, again, I am not sure this is complete and correct) that much is dependent on when an individual becomes a “student” at X institution. Obviously, when one matriculates he’s is a student; however, what about the months before he enrolls (in this scenario, he’s accepted but not yet under the governance of the university, no student ID card, no student privileges, possibly the ability to recoup all tuition, fees and deposits, and so forth)?