Admissions

A few dozen students a year who were meeting the SAT requirement were in the bottom half of their high school classes and didn't perform well in college.

Oxford report renders as charts and correlations something that would otherwise go undoubted: that a well-funded and well-organized hard-right political movement has forged its own media system, writes Scott McLemee.

Transfer rates at North Carolina's Stanly Community College increased after the college made the simple grading change of no longer awarding D's.

Two major journals experiment with "registered reports," agreeing to publish articles based on their design and potential significance, not their results. Could this be a model for others, and one solution to the reproducibility crisis?

Leonard J. DeLorenzo questions whether the college admissions system is addressing its problems.

Jim Jump raises questions about a new book arguing against test-optional admissions.

The new social contract calls for us to adapt to the reality that data and discovery challenge people’s worldview, write Jason Hamilton and Thomas J. Pfaff.