{"id":11701,"date":"2025-03-06T22:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:16:28","slug":"washington-post-highlights-augsburgs-experience-with-direct-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/06\/washington-post-highlights-augsburgs-experience-with-direct-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Highlights Augsburg&#8217;s Experience With Direct Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-4.14.14\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-4.14.14\u202fPM-300x45.png\" alt=\"The Washington Post logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-4.14.14\u202fPM-300x45.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-4.14.14\u202fPM.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On March 6, The Washington Post featured Augsburg second-year Anna Miranda and Stephanie Ruckel, director of strategic enrollment management, in an article exploring the movement towards direct admissions across higher education. Augsburg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2024\/03\/15\/augsburg-applies-to-you-is-changing-the-game\/\">moved to a direct admissions model<\/a> as part of its Augsburg Applies to You initiative in 2022, and participates in the state Direct Admissions Minnesota program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting the [direct admissions] letter kind of knocked down a barrier,\u201d Miranda said in the interview. \u201cIt made me feel more confident.\u201d Ruckel noted that direct admissions can be particularly helpful to first-generation students, easing the fear of rejection and encouraging students to ask more probing questions about whether the school is a fit.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article via The Washington Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2025\/03\/06\/state-colleges-direct-admissions-programs-high-school-students\/\">&#8220;More state colleges are admitting students \u2014 before they apply&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 6, The Washington Post featured Augsburg second-year Anna Miranda and Stephanie Ruckel, director of strategic enrollment management, in an article exploring the movement towards direct admissions across higher education. Augsburg moved to a direct admissions model as part of its Augsburg Applies to You initiative in 2022, and participates in the state Direct &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[3995,3998],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","category-students","tag-augsburg-applies-to-you","tag-direct-admissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11704,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions\/11704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}