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Big Data goes to college

June 21st, 2013

Did you ever wonder how colleges identified you, and why they send you so much email and snail mail? Wonder whether your response makes a difference? Demonstrated interest does matter to colleges!

Kent Barnds draws interesting parallels between college admission and the NSA as he outlines ways in which colleges are using data to build each freshman class. Knowledge may not translate into power in this case but it is useful, readers.

Read more at Huffington Post >>

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