Admissions Insights You Can Trust
Acuity Insights provides admissions assessment and interview tools for higher education programs. Casper and Video Interviews help your teams evaluate applicants beyond academic metrics, surface meaningful insight at scale, and make more confident admissions decisions.
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Make Admissions Decisions with Greater Confidence
Casper is the most widely used open-response situational judgment test (SJT) in higher education admissions, helping programs gain standardized insight beyond academic metrics.
Video Interviews is a customizable, asynchronous interview tool that helps programs gather authentic applicant insight while reducing scheduling and administrative burden.
Why Admissions Teams Choose Casper
Insights beyond academic metrics
Casper assesses applicants’ social intelligence and professionalism through real-world scenarios, providing consistent insight that grades and knowledge-based tests alone cannot capture.
Defensible, standardized decision-making
Standardized scenarios, multiple independent raters, and comparable results help programs make evidence-based admissions decisions they can confidently stand behind.
Reduce workload. Improve selection quality.
Gain meaningful applicant insight early in the admissions process, helping your team prioritize review efforts and focus resources where they matter most.
Why Admissions Teams Choose Video Interviews
Customize the interview experience
Configure questions, content, rubrics, response timing, think time, and scoring to create an interview experience that reflects your program’s unique process and values.
Scale interviews, not your workload
Asynchronous delivery eliminates the need for live scheduling, while optional support from Acuity-trained raters and researchers helps reduce administrative burden and reviewer fatigue.
Surface what matters most to your program
Structured video responses help programs gather authentic applicant insight and evaluate the attributes that matter most, beyond what written applications alone can reveal.
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Juliette Kendall
Admissions Tutor
University of Manchester
“Casper brought a level of objectivity and consistency to the process that helped us feel more confident that we were selecting the right candidates for dental hygiene and therapy training.”
Louise Thomas
Admissions Coordinator
Curtin University
“[Casper] has reduced staff workload and volunteer burnout that can occur when you are interviewing a vast number of candidates year on year.”
Lisa Daitch
Admissions Director
Augusta University
“[Casper has] helped us spot outliers that our other tools wouldn’t have done for us. The scores have also added confidence to our assessment of applicants and validated our final sections.”
Darren Richard
Program Director
Université Laval
“Rather than asking, ‘Who has the highest grades?’ the admissions committee began asking, ‘Who is most likely to become a successful biomedical researcher?’”
Frequently Asked Questions
Acuity supports admissions teams with structured tools that help evaluate applicants beyond grades and test scores. Casper and Video Interviews give programs consistent ways to gather applicant insight, support fair and defensible review, identify applicants that fit the institutional mission, and make more informed decisions at scale.
Academic metrics provide valuable information about academic achievement, but they do not always reveal how applicants think, exercise judgment, communicate, or respond to complex situations. Admissions assessment tools such as Casper and Video Interviews help higher education programs gather additional insight into the personal and professional qualities that support success in academic and professional environments.
Casper is an open-response situational judgment test (SJT) used by higher education programs as part of their admissions processes. It assesses social intelligence and professionalism through real-world scenarios, providing standardized insight that helps admissions teams evaluate applicants beyond academic metrics.
An open-response situational judgment test (SJT) presents applicants with realistic scenarios and asks them to explain how they would respond in their own words. Unlike multiple-choice assessments, open-response SJTs evaluate how applicants think through complex situations and communicate their reasoning, providing admissions teams with additional insight into applicant potential.
Casper helps admissions teams make more informed and defensible admissions decisions by providing standardized insight into social intelligence and professionalism. Consistent scenarios, multiple independent raters, and comparable results help programs evaluate applicants using a structured and evidence-based approach.
Video Interviews is a customizable, asynchronous interview tool designed for higher education admissions. It enables applicants to complete structured interviews on their own schedule while helping admissions teams gather authentic applicant insight, evaluate program-specific competencies, and reduce administrative burden.
Asynchronous video interviews allow applicants to complete interviews without scheduling a live meeting, creating a more flexible experience for both applicants and admissions teams. Programs can review responses when it fits their workflow, helping reduce scheduling complexity, administrative effort, and reviewer fatigue.
Video Interviews provide a more authentic and defensible view of the competencies and skills that matter most than written essays or recommendation letters. Structured, real-time responses reduce the likelihood of over-polished or AI-generated content, giving admissions teams greater confidence in the authenticity of what they’re reviewing.
Video Interviews can be customized to reflect a program’s unique admissions goals, values, and competencies. Programs can tailor interview questions, rubrics, timing, and scoring criteria to evaluate the qualities most important to their admissions process.
Casper and Video Interviews provide complementary admissions insights. Casper delivers standardized assessment of social intelligence and professionalism, while Video Interviews allow programs to explore additional competencies, experiences, and motivations through customizable interview questions. Together, they help admissions teams gain a more complete view of each applicant.
Yes. Casper and Video Interviews are designed to complement existing admissions processes and can be used alongside academic metrics, application materials, interviews, and other evaluation methods. Programs can incorporate one or both solutions at different stages of admissions to support more informed and efficient decision-making.
