Obsessing over who gets into elite colleges and universities is an odd preoccupation for progressives, argues Francisco Toro on...

Elite colleges should create and fund middle and high schools to educate disadvantaged students, writes Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics...

Harvard's admissions break for children of alumni and donors "discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost" to...

"Affirmative action," a euphemism for racial preferences, "is a misguided, discriminatory policy whose end is long overdue," writes...

Elite universities reward applicants -- students and job-hunting professors -- who can play racial identity games, writes Tyler Austin...

Racial preferences in college admissions are unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, striking down affirmative action plans...

Affirmative action in college admissions has failed to help disadvantaged black students, writes Bertrand Cooper in The Atlantic. If the...

Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...

The U.S. Supreme Court to end racial preferences in college admissions, very soon, just about everyone predicts. So what happens next?...

Most Americans -- "ordinary people" rather than academics -- believe in merit, writes Ruy Teixeira on Liberal Patriot. They want to help...

Columbia University, know for its core curriculum in humanities, has become the first Ivy League school to drop SAT/ACT scores as an...

Asian-American students are advised to be "less Asian" when they apply to selective colleges, reports Amy Qin in the New York Times....

College applications appear to be up this fall after a pandemic dip, according to the Common Application's report on early applicants....

Affirmative action was created at a time when most Americans belonged to a white majority or a black minority, writes Megan McArdle in...

Diversity is a "fig leaf" for elite colleges' desire to discriminate on the basis of race, says linguist John McWhorter in a New York...

Based on yesterday's oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely to reject race-based affirmative...

Sixty-three percent of Americans say colleges shouldn't consider race in admissions, according to a Washington Post poll. Blacks are...

Stanford discriminated against Jewish applicants in the early 1950's, admitted President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who issued an apology last...