Columbia deletes assessments by admissions employees

Yale Law School isn't the only Ivy deleting admissions files.

According to the Columbia Spectator, Columbia has been deleting the assessments of enrolled students made by their admissions officers, making them inaccessible by students who have recently made FERPA requests.

Many schools, including Penn, have seen a major increase in FERPA requests by students to see their own admissions files after a website at Stanford publicized the easy process to gain access. Two weeks ago, Yale Law School announced that it had reverted back to an old policy of deleting some of its admissions data.

At Columbia, the department has been deleting their "reader rating sheet," which is a written assessment of an applicant by the admissions department.

“We have a document retention policy here at Columbia that has been in place for a little while,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jessica Marinaccio said to the Spectator. “And part of that document retention policy is that we do delete, we remove those reader rating sheets before a student matriculates.”

In the article, Marinaccio said this was to give a clean slate to matriculating students.

Read the full article about Columbia's policy at the Columbia Spectator. 

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