Admissions

Forget formal letters of recommendation. Do personal appeals make a difference? Research suggests they create a real advantage over similarly qualified applicants without an advocate.

Trilogy Education Services runs coding boot camps for a growing number of universities. The partnerships are lucrative for the institutions, but are they worth the reputational risk?

College leaders talk about their participation on a federal task force on apprenticeships, which last week issued a report with scathing criticism of traditional higher education.

Admission to law schools could see changes.

Princeton admits first transfer applicants since 1990. And new data may help those colleges that never stopped.

Washington & Jefferson has roughly equal split between male and female students, a ratio many colleges would envy, but it's seeking more women.

ACT has raised some eyebrows by announcing a new program -- for which participants must pay -- to train those who tutor test takers.