Reverse-Entry Admission System for Student-Institution Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity of the higher education application process leads to students missing opportunities due to information asymmetry and suboptimal outcomes, as they often choose from a limited set of well-known institutions and fail to consider suitable programs, resulting in underutilization of global education resources.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that allows educational institutions to discover and offer admission to well-matched students worldwide by creating and anonymizing universal student profiles, which are then matched with institution profiles based on entrance requirements, reducing the need for students to navigate multiple applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If students apply to multiple educational institutions using traditional processes, then they may secure admission to prestigious institutions, but the process becomes tedious, stressful, and time-consuming with unpredictable outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadmission outcome reliabilityVSAvoidapplication processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the traditional application process by allowing educational institutions to proactively search for and admit students based on pre-processed student profiles, rather than students applying to institutions. This reversal eliminates the need for students to navigate multiple application processes and wait for outcomes, while institutions can efficiently identify suitable candidates from a centralized database of anonymized student profiles.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing student information into standardized profiles before institutional review. Student profiles are created, validated, and stored in advance with all necessary academic information organized according to institutional requirements, eliminating the need for students to repeatedly submit applications and allowing institutions to conduct rapid evaluations when students are ready for enrollment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If students choose from a limited set of well-known institutions due to information asymmetry, then the application process becomes simpler, but students miss opportunities to develop their full potential by not considering suitable programs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveapplication process simplicityVSAvoideducational opportunity range

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary platform that acts as a mediator between students and educational institutions. This centralized system processes student profiles, matches them with suitable institutions based on academic criteria, and facilitates admissions. The intermediary eliminates information asymmetry by providing students with access to a broad range of institutional opportunities while maintaining simple interactions through standardized profile-based matching.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If educational institutions review complete student information directly, then they can make informed admission decisions, but student privacy is compromised and trust is difficult to establish

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadmission decision qualityVSAvoidstudent privacy exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts personally identifiable information from student profiles during the matching and review process. Institutional reviewers evaluate academic qualifications and suitability based on anonymized profile data, and only after admission decisions are made is student identity revealed. This extraction of identifying information allows institutions to make informed decisions while protecting student privacy throughout the critical evaluation phase.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12190398B2Systems and methods for facilitating a reverse-entry process

Publication Date: 2025.01.07 EAB GLOBAL INC

AI summary

A computer implemented method for administration of admission offers from educational institutions including receiving student information from students, generating a unique student identifier for each of the students, generating a universal student profile for each of the students on the database, the universal student profile including the unique student identifier, student identification information, and student qualification information for each of the students, identifying matching students from a plurality of universal student profiles stored on the database whose qualification information satisfies the entrance requirement information of any of the plurality of educational institution profiles stored on the database, generating on the database an anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students, and transmitting over the data network the anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students to educational institutions whose entrance requirements have been satisfied by the matching students.