The University of California’s historic move to abandon standardized exams may not be the last of changes coming to the admissions process for the public university system. That’s the expectation of ...

Going back over 50 years, public intellectuals have toyed with a radical idea: What if colleges used random lotteries to admit students? It’s a notion that first caught on in the 1960s, when middle ...

What is the most compelling theme in a college application essay? Overcoming adversity. It is not enough for an applicant to say they have experienced adversity. To be persuasive, the applicant must ...

Most higher education institutions are collectively holding their breaths in anticipation of the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and college admissions, which is expected late this spring ...

Winston-Salem, N.C. — Christoph O. Guttentag, Duke University’s dean of admissions, has thought a lot about why sports matters so much to so many people. In a world of ambiguity, games provide clarity ...

Test-optional policies have swept the higher education system in the United States as of late. A test-optional policy is where a college applicant has the option of adding a test score to be ...

For the 1,569 Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science first-year students arriving on campus this week, their first steps onto College Walk will represent the end of an ...

The California state legislature passed a Democrat-led bill last week that, if signed by the state's governor, would ban private colleges from admitting preferred applicants who are related to alumni, ...