Request No. | 2017-10 |
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Date of Request | October 10, 2016 |
Requester | CCC Tech Center |
Application(s) | Standard, BOG, IA |
Section / Page | Submission |
Steering Hearing Date | November 4, 2016 |
Proposed Change to Download File | No |
Proposed Change to Residency Logic | No |
Problem / Issue
Colleges have reported a rash of suspicious incoming applications from countries such as Russia and China since June 2016. These applications appear to be fakes but it's hard to discern due to some of the reasons listed below:
Proposed Solution
Investigate what it would take to build an Application spam filter where A/R staff could mark an application as suspicious and via the magic of machine learning we could build an ever updated model that could flag suspicious applications and put them in a suspense file for review. Very similar concept to email spam filtering.
Notes
Several colleges have reported this issue and in July a special Steering Committee meeting was held to discuss the implications of these applications. It was determined that until we know more about the origin and nature of these applications it is very hard to discern if these are suspicious, fakes, spam or legit applications. Steering determined to gather more information from colleges and revisit a proposal for investigating what can be done about this - if anything - during the Fall 2016.
Additional notes will be added here, as well as a transcript of the Steering meeting from July 2016.