When admissions tools are unreliable and inaccurate, we aren’t getting a true picture of the applicant. And, when these tools create unnecessary barriers, it can collapse the much-needed diversity in the profession. This fails applicants, academic programs, and our society as a whole.

These assessment issues drove co-founders, Harold Reiter, MD MEd (co-creator of the MMI Interview) and Kelly Dore, PhD, internationally renowned researchers in admissions and assessment, to formulate a series of fair and effective methods of selection. Their assessment methods are now used in a variety of prestigious professional training programs.

They began by conducting rigorous research to identify important personality and behavioural traits. From there, they developed testing and assessment methodologies to assess an applicant’s suitability to professions that require a great deal of empathy and emotional maturity.

Altus Assessments now offers this research- backed testing (Casper, in particular) to schools as a turnkey, cost-effective way to allow applicants with the difficult-to-teach people skills to stand out from those who perform well on strictly academic measures. We are committed to developing less resource-intensive, robust, and holistic tools to better predict student success, so programs can focus on developing the next generation of high-performing professionals.

Today, we’re a team 70+ strong, each of us passionate about building tools that look beyond book smarts.