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Senators urged to end financial aid at colleges that use legacy preferences and early decision and to ban research grants to universities that do not use a lottery system to admit applicants.

Those studying Asian American attitudes about the Harvard case should look at the split between younger and older Chinese Americans, write OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong.

The current political environment is motivating law school applicants, surveys find.

We need better language for describing the college admissions process, writes Jim Jump.

Counselor asks if survey that yields data that are sold to colleges should be labeled in a different way.

Co-editor discusses new book on FBI documents about spying on researchers.

Lawyers defending and opposing affirmative action make their final pitches to judge in case that could have major impact on higher education. The debate on personal ratings of Asian American applicants could be crucial.

One president's thesis: to recruit more students straight from high school, it's time to admit that there's an image problem. New data show the stigma issue is real among high school counselors.