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The Week in Admissions News
Summer Pell Grants, honor for Chapel Hill, more colleges go test optional and more.
'Brown Is Completely Off the Table'
Private counselors report that, since the election, more parents are ruling out their children applying to some colleges, based on political reputations.
A University of Chicago Admissions Challenge for Everyone
The queries typically focus on intellectual questions. One of them this year offers a chance at humor.
Can Women's Colleges Attract Women? Can Ex-Women's Colleges Attract Men?
Another women's colleges goes completely coeducational, renewing discussion of viability of single-sex colleges -- and of institutions that start to recruit male students.
The Week in Admissions News
Free tuition in New York State and at U of Michigan, lower college-going rates for those who grew up in times of high unemployment, and more.
Attracting Chinese Students With Their Own Admissions Test
Two years into an unusual approach to international admissions, University of San Francisco finds that it's working.
Job Losses Linger
Adolescents who see widespread layoffs around them as they grow up are less likely to enroll in college -- even if no one in their family loses a job.
A Fast Start?
New York’s much-debated free public college tuition program received 21,000 applications in five days, a quick start even as many colleges project few students will receive aid from the effort.