The college essay favors students who know how to exaggerate their adversity and fake humility.

The University of Austin will guarantee admissions to students with very high test scores.

The University of California is being sued by Asian-American achievers who charge racial discrimination in admissions.

Taking AP Calculus is almost obligatory for students applying for top colleges, even if they aren't interested in math or science majors.

It's college application time again. Ambitious 12th-graders are polishing their essays, wondering if mentioning their grandmother's claim...

" The meritocracy isn't working ," writes David Brooks in The Atlantic . Ambitious parents "ferry their kids from one supervised...

"Holistic" admissions to selective colleges is a "black box," writes Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. Nobody knows...

It's the start of the college application season, and 12th-graders are searching their lives for subject matter for essays, writes Robert...

Yale is not “being honest about the reality of our admissions process” because the university is “denying 98 percent of the students who...

Minority students are only slightly less likely to write about their racial or ethnic identity in college admissions essays, according to...

The Ivy League is not very heterosexual, notes Rod Dreher. You'll see that the percentages of LGBTQ+ students nearly tripled at Brown...

It's time to dump college admissions essays, writes Matthew Levey on The 74. Test scores and good grades in challenging courses are...

Getting Aidan or Abigail into a bumper-sticker-worthy college doesn't come cheaply. In addition to $800,000 or so for 13 years at a top...

Dartmouth will require applicants to submit standardized test scores such as the SAT or ACT, ending a long "pandemic pause," reports...

Writing about race is more popular than ever for black, Hispanic and indigenous college applicants, writes Bernard Mokam in the New York...

College admissions are "murky," and getting murkier, writes Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor, on Persuasion. "Test-optional"...

Only 36 percent of Americans expressed "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of trust in higher education in a 2023 Gallup survey, down from 57...

Want equity? Require college applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The progressives' "war...

"(Are you ready?) Yes, I'm ready . . . I don't even know how to hold your hand Just to make you understand But I'm ready (ready) to learn...

"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...