@jensplarson.bsky.social

@jensplarson.bsky.social

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Enrollment manager, admissions secret shopper, and purveyor of higher education commentary.

A graph showing the annual family contribution at University of Pennsylvania, based on income.
The image shows president Trump speaking on Fox News against an American flag background. The text, which is quoting the president, reads, "Trump: An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it.:
The image contains the pictures of a young boy wearing tan loafers, pink pants, and an untucked pastel-tartan button down shirt. Each photo like like it's part of a photo package that a parent or guardian would purchase at a big box store. The boy appears frustrated or very intense in every photo, which is juxtaposed with overlay text that reads "Congrats," "Happy for you," and "Nice."
A study at Dartmouth showed the admissions office was more likely to be racist and classist when it came to admitting students. Despite this, a higher percentage of "disadvantaged" students enrolled. This table shows that data.
This mobile screenshot shows the AI summary of an MIT intro to physics video.
The image shows a dozen line graphs representing regions of the world between 2011 and 2023, nearly all showing increases in the desire of people from that region to migrate to a new country.
The image shows a mobile screenshot of a Google search results for "is x dying." Google's AI answered "Yes" and then proved multiple examples of how X is a dying platform.