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The Week in Admissions News
Law schools may eventually go test optional; U of Tennessee restores test requirement; affirmative action brief filed with Supreme Court; AP credits; lockdowns in China; recruiting students and their family members.
All in the Family
A spate of initiatives across the country are bringing high school graduates and their relatives to college in hopes of improving the financial status of families and increasing college retention rates.
The Magnitude of Affirmative Action
Study finds large advantages for Black and Latinx applicants to Harvard and University of North Carolina. Is it valid? Will this sway the Supreme Court?
What If Colleges Used to Discriminate Against Asian American Applicants?
New study suggests that top colleges perhaps used to discriminate against Asian Americans, but they may have abandoned the practice.
Blame the Deans
Law firm says former dean of education left out data that would bring down University of Southern California’s score from 2013 to 2020, and the current dean did so in 2021, before coming clean to the provost.
Poll Finds the Public Doesn’t Favor Affirmative Action
Pew poll of American adults finds 74 percent think race and ethnicity should not be considered in admissions decisions. For gender, 82 percent think it shouldn’t be considered.
The Week in Admissions News
Tuition waivers for Native Americans; more Pell Grants for prisoners; Ohio State ends iPad program; hazing at Baylor.
Rising Freshmen’s Concern With College Costs Has Limits
Students would give a lower rank to a college if it cut nonacademic amenities to save money, survey finds.