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Maximizing Success for First-Gen Students
More four-year colleges are working to help first-generation college students succeed. But a new report says real progress requires institutional shifts, not just adding new programs.
Tackling Poverty to Increase Graduations
A growing number of colleges are trying to help poor students meet their basic needs and remove barriers that keep them from graduating.
Test-Optional Momentum
Bowdoin is about to hit 50 years without requiring SAT or ACT. More colleges are following suit, and University of California announces it will study whether value remains in admissions testing.
Judge: Harvard Trial Should Proceed
University and those suing it both lose bids for a legal victory without a trial.
Admitting Those Who Don't Look Like You
Panel at NACAC takes on practices it identifies as reinforcing racism and white privilege in college admissions and counseling.
The Week in Admissions News
Common App and Reach Higher; public service loan forgiveness; free college; serving black students.
ACT Calls Off Oct. 2 Test
Testing service announces unspecified security issue.
A Wet Blanket on Idaho's Blanket Admissions
Some have praised Idaho's 2015 move to tell all qualifying high school seniors they are admitted to public colleges, but high school counselors and college admissions officers say details have been bedeviling.