6 college admissions experts share their biggest predictions for 2023

Higher Ed Dive

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf

January 23, 2023

A pending Supreme Court ruling on race-conscious admissions and other shifts like ChatGPT’s effects on application essays could upend the landscape.

College admissions remains volatile in 2023. Massive shifts — like a widely expected ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that would restrict race-conscious admissions — threaten to stretch an already overworked field.

To keep up with the rapidly changing environment, we posed one question to six experts: What admissions trend do you expect to see in 2023?

Rick Clark – Assistant vice provost and executive director of undergraduate admissions at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Heath Einstein – Dean of admissions at Texas Christian University

Angel Perez – Chief executive officer of the National Association for College Admission Counseling

Jenny Rickard – President and chief executive officer of the Common App

Bob Schaeffer – Public education director at FairTest

Whitney Soule – Vice provost and dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania

Their written responses are below, lightly edited for brevity and clarity.

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