Graduates of the most selective institutions earn more -- even when controlling for factors that earlier made some doubt such findings -- but maybe not as much more as many think.
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Mar 09, 2020
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have different ideas about college affordability and higher education policy, both in their approaches and the specificity of their plans.
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Admissions Views • May 7, 2018
The scandal of the University of Texas at Tyler's treatment of Nepalese students is among the worst in admissions (opinion)
Admissions Views • April 2, 2018
The Laura Ingraham controversy and admissions rejections (opinion)
Admissions Views • March 5, 2018
Essay considers the value of consistency in college admissions policies
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July 19, 2016
With lawsuit seeking the right to keep guns out of their classrooms, three UT Austin professors try to reshape the debate over campus carry.
May 26, 2016
More community colleges are moving away from relying on placement exams alone to figure out whether incoming students need remediation, but establishing a substitute system can be tricky.
April 26, 2016
Two national applications will offer applicants the chance to move past the traditional gender binary in classifying themselves.
April 18, 2016
Grinnell severs ties with a well-respected organization that sends groups of low-income and minority students to elite colleges. Many on campus are unhappy about the move.
February 2, 2016
Statewide transfer agreements alone won't fix the leaky pipeline between community colleges and four-year institutions, write Davis Jenkins and Joshua Wyner.
December 22, 2015
NYU changes policy and its website, and apologizes to would-be graduate student who went public after being told the university didn't grant waivers.
October 2, 2015
At admissions meeting, high school counselors say a common practice is out of control and deans who abandoned the practice are cheered.
September 29, 2015
As 80 colleges unite to create new application and portfolio platform for high school students, a look at who is in and who is not (for now), how colleges plan to use the service, and how Common Application is responding.
May 19, 2015
Legislation designed to protect student privacy could make it more difficult for colleges to identify disadvantaged students who can succeed in higher education, writes Jim Larimore.