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Season of the Crunch
Two new Harvard papers indicate outreach to low-income students in the summer before college can have a significant impact on whether they enroll.
Merit Consideration
Use of non-need-based aid in pursuit of tuition revenue and prestige is driving up the cost of college for low-income families, New America Foundation report finds.
Price of a Bad Economy
Discount rates at private colleges continue to grow, according to annual survey, reflecting the myriad pressures that are weakening college pricing power.
Class Matters
Even high school valedictorians from lower-income backgrounds generally fail to enroll in top colleges, a study finds.
Crowded Out
New paper finds that increases in the proportion of out-of-state students at public research universities lead to declines in the enrollment of minority and low-income students.
Should AP Be Plan A?
A new study by a Stanford-affiliated researcher questions several assertions made by advocates for the Advanced Placement exam.
More Fudging of SAT Averages
York College of Pennsylvania is latest to admit that it wasn't submitting correct numbers. In this case, "special admits" were left out of the calculation.
'More Than a Major'
Survey of executives suggests that companies are more concerned with graduates' broad skills than their field of study.