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 ...

The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs has officially launched the application process for the Fiscal Year 2023 Cultural Development Fund. For the first time since the pandemic suspended the ...

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 ...

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is considering changing the middle schools admissions process to make it more equitable, he told parents at a Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council meeting yesterday. The ...

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 ...