Admissions

"State of College Admission" finds colleges focus more on academics than personal characteristics and value first-generation status over race/ethnicity.

In what critics say is another bad decision for the U of Louisville Foundation, it's suing a professor it partnered with to launch a failed personalized medicine lab.

Highly selective colleges enroll modestly more veterans. And 100 higher ed leaders gather in Washington this week to keep veteran enrollments rising. That's progress, right? Wick Sloane asks.

A year after revelation that university's business school lied for years about how it used aid to build its class, a new approach is announced.

Experiment in California suggests that the right kind of outreach can increase the participation of low-income students in aid programs.

Portrayals of college admissions in popular culture do matter, writes Jim Jump.

Whatever the judge rules, we have seen the impact of wealth, alumni connections and athletic skill in elite college admissions, writes Nicholas Soodik.