Tracking and Ranking Prospective Applicants

The Washington Post has just published a remarkably detailed and revealing story about how colleges track and rank prospective applicants:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/14/colleges-quietly-rank-prospective-students-based-their-personal-data/

A thread has already been started on this topic so I will close this one.

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2160049-student-tracking-secret-scores-how-college-admissions-offices-rank-prospects-before-they-apply.html#latest