It’s been a year since the state of Idaho embarked on an ambitious experiment: directly admitting graduating high school seniors into Idaho’s public colleges and universities without requiring them to fill out an application.
For many institutions in the Idaho system, it worked.
Over all, enrollment at Idaho’s public colleges and universities rose 3.1 percent, to 74,632 enrolled students from 72,360. This comes after a volatile few years. Enrollment consistently increased from fall 2006 to fall 2012. In 2013, enrollment numbers dipped sharply, and the number of enrolled students has bounced up and down since then. The most recent bump was much larger than the only other enrollment increase in the past four years -- in 2014, enrollment only rose by 1.2 percent.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/23/idaho-universities-see-enrollment-rise-after-killing-admissions-application