University Business: How Lottery-Style Strategies Support Equity

July 24, 2024

The fall of affirmative action and political push to close DEI offices are forcing more colleges and universities to reexamine how they can support a diverse student body without running into state compliance trouble. Lottery admissions might be a solution, a report by Acuity Insights suggests.

Lottery admissions introduce an “element of randomness” into the applicant selection process. One of the most predominant methods used internationally is the “threshold lottery.” This fall, for example, the School of Medicine at Queen’s University in Canada will blindly select a predetermined number of students from a pool of applicants who meet designated GPA, MCAT and Acuity Insight’s Casper assessment test scores. The latter measures a student’s social intelligence, such as ethics and professionalism.

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