Admissions

The queries typically focus on intellectual questions. One of them this year offers a chance at humor.

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.

Bill would require the state’s public universities to release data on credit acceptance for transfer students as well as graduation rates for those students.

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.

Move is part of a goal to significantly raise graduation rates.

Some arts programs are pushing for applicants who meet higher academic standards.

Many experts on admissions and campus race relations say the university did the right thing.

"Committee-based" system -- pioneered at Penn -- changes how applicants are first judged at a growing number of competitive colleges.