SOLUTIONS FOR ADMISSIONS

Confident Data-Driven Decisions for the Office of Admissions

Evidence-based assessments measuring competencies and attributes that go beyond academic achievement.

Solutions for Admissions

We know that Deans and Directors of Admissions are responsible for ensuring that they’re attracting, identifying, and selecting high-potential applicants in a fair and equitable way. You face significant challenges from an overwhelming amount of applicant data that can be time consuming and difficult to access, interpret, and take action on.

That’s where Acuity Insights comes in:

  • Evidence-based admissions assessments that measure different competencies and attributes
  • Combined data across the learner’s lifecycle, across cohorts, and multiple years to inform future admissions policies and actions
  • Powerful data modeling, visualizations, and reporting to support confident decision making

A more complete picture

It takes more than good grades to become a successful professional, but programs still rely heavily on academic metrics in the absence of reliable tools that shed light on other valuable aspects of the applicant. Acuity provides assessments that help admissions teams get to know candidates beyond their grades, uncovering professional competencies and values.

  • Measure different aspects with two unique admissions assessments: Casper and Duet
  • Evaluate social intelligence, professionalism, communication skills, and alignment with your program
  • Give your applicants more opportunities to stand out earlier in the process
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Confident decision making

Used by over 400 programs and built on over 15 years of research, Acuity’s admissions assessments have shown that evaluating competencies beyond book smarts during admissions correlate to positive learner outcomes later on.

  • Evidence-based tools proven to predict learner outcomes
  • Gain insights into your admissions process and program
  • Understand your data with easy data visualization
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Drive continuous improvement

Admissions teams are supported with easy-to-use tools that allow them to understand their data and decide what actions would be most effective at improving their admissions process.

  • Access all of your admissions assessment data for a holistic picture of your applicants
  • Ensure an equitable review process with reviewer controls and on-demand training
  • Follow individual learners and groups of learners longitudinally through the program
  • Generate reports and insights for optimizing learner and program outcomes
  • Access support tools, consultation, and research services
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Hear What Our
Partners Have to Say

It takes more than a 4.0 GPA to become a good clinician. We’ve actually accepted people with lower GPAs and standardized test scores when their non-cognitive metrics were very high, and we’ve turned down others who had great grades, but lacked some of those essential non-academic qualities. We want to find a balance, and having Casper has really helped us balance those qualities in our decisions.

David A. Bringman

Rehabilitation Sciences Program Coordinator, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Admissions Committee at Georgia Southern University

Seeing this strong positive correlation [between Casper and clerkship grades] was a pleasant surprise and indicates that some of the qualities we look for in an applicant can be identified through Casper.

Michael J. Woodson

Director of Admissions Tulane University School of Medicine

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We used Duet to find additional candidates to interview. These candidates had lower step scores so we would have missed them otherwise, but with Duet we were able to interview 18 candidates that were fabulous!

Dr. Donald Hess

Program Director of the General Surgery Residency, Boston University School of Medicine

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