...wouldn't offer it if we didn't want to encourage its use," said Nikki Brown, assistant admissions director at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The concerns mirror those raised with the Common Application, which lets students submit...

...year. The sampling margin of error was 5 percentage points. The project was planned by Bagby, Lawrence Mamiya of Vassar College and Mohamed Nimer of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. A Georgetown University center did the data analysis...