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A Busy Week in Admissions News
Critique of b-school rankings; year two of Maine's efforts to draw out-of-state students; promoting transfer; rising discount rates; and the latest coffee-college partnership.
Opinion
Ethical College Admissions: Leadership
Are admissions offices obsessed with leadership skills among applicants? Should they be? Jim Jump considers the issues.
Opinion
Inherent Flaws
Natasha K. Warikoo, the author of a new book about diversity and admissions, reflects on helping her son apply to a private school while she was reviewing applicants to a graduate program.
'Who Gets In?'
New book shows the impact of grades, test scores, race and gender on admission to competitive colleges.
Tough Year for Midwestern Liberal Arts Colleges
For some institutions that would typically have their classes set by now, application numbers were disappointing and deposits have lagged. "June 1 may be the new May 1."
Challenge to B-School Rankings
Twenty-one scholars publish call to reject popular measures and ordinal rankings -- and to replace them with more meaningful tools for comparisons.
Tuition Matching, Take 2
University of Maine sleds uphill by trying to draw students from faraway California and Illinois with program matching in-state flagship rates of other states, but sees yet more gains from New England.
A Plan to Kill High School Transcripts … and Transform College Admissions
More than 100 elite private high schools aim to replace traditional transcripts with competency-based, nonstandardized documents -- with no grades. They plan to expand to public high schools, with goal of completely changing how students are evaluated.