{"id":243367,"date":"2026-05-11T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:15:10","slug":"brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandeis\u2019 New AI Tool Upends Admissions With Price Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelhorn\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/\">Brandeis\u2019 New AI Tool Upends Admissions With Price Transparency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelhorn\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelhorn\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 00:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-line-clamp:2\" class=\"Ccg9Ib-7 _8XF2kHYM\">A sign marks the entrance of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. (AP Photo\/Josh Reynolds)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2010 AP. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>The rules behind college admissions are meant to be opaque at selective colleges and universities, as bestselling author (and my Future U. cohost) Jeff Selingo documents in his book Who Gets In and Why.<\/p>\n<p>Because the rules have been written this way, changing them\u2014for example, by giving all students clear information up-front on what they would pay in tuition should they get admitted and enroll\u2014isn\u2019t as straightforward as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>In part, that\u2019s because at many colleges, the administration itself doesn\u2019t know the answer to that question until, at minimum, it sees who actually applies for admission.<\/p>\n<p>Brandeis University is now changing that practice for all students. It has just launched a new, artificial intelligence-powered tool called Faye (that is, FA for financial aid) that will calculate the precise price a student would pay based on their personal academic and financial information should they apply and be accepted to Brandeis University.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is designed to be simple\u2014but the work behind it is anything but.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent lunch with Arthur Levine, the president of Brandeis, Jennifer Walker, the vice president enrollment management, and Sherri Avery, the assistant vice president of student financial services, it became clear just how complex this seemingly simple task is. It has required significant changes both within specific departments as well as to the various processes across the University.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite the challenges, \u201cIt\u2019s the right thing to do,\u201d Levine said.<\/p>\n<p>Levine, a Brandeis alum who has served as president at other institutions, recounted how he could not have attended Brandeis without a full ride. But providing a full ride is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>In Levine\u2019s telling, higher education as a sector is seen as too expensive, out of step with the times, and not willing to change. <\/p>\n<p>By changing the core curriculum to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelhorn\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandeis\u2019 New AI Tool Upends Admissions With Price Transparency https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelhorn\/2026\/05\/11\/brandeis-new-ai-tool-upends-admissions-with-price-transparency\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-11 00:15:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a009ba2a4d69f12001f3a03\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-243367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243369,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243367\/revisions\/243369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}