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Qualitative Analysis of Admissions: Design Thinking
Admissions teams face new complexity: GenAI, remote interviews, and the loss of standardized tests. A two-hour design thinking workshop at UNC (January 2025) generated approximately 76 ideas and clustered them into three themes: interview format, GenAI integration and compliance, and broadened admissions criteria (Davidson et al., published June 23, 2026). Read the original study at PLOS ONE. This post shows how to convert DT artifacts into rigorous qualitative analysis of admissions using AI tools to go from sticky notes to reproducible insight.
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- What happened: workshop & analysis (plain English)
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