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Admissions group calls on colleges to require recruiting agents to disclose their financial ties to those they are seeking to recruit.

The debate over the use of 'all lives matter' plays out in a public forum as NACAC conference closes.

Admissions officers talk about changing the way applications are read in order to keep up with demographic changes.

Sixty-four-campus system will no longer ask applicants to declare prior felony convictions. After admission, those seeking housing or certain kinds of training or experiences will be asked.

Data from admissions group show that, despite all the hype about a few elite colleges that admit a small share of applicants, most institutions say yes to most of those who apply.

Large gaps remain evident when looking at average scores by racial and ethnic group.

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.