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$1.5 Million to Get Into an Ivy
Lawsuit reveals just how much a college consulting service will charge for its services.

Opinion
Ethical College Admissions: Efficiency vs. Making the Right Call
Jim Jump wonders if speed should really be a factor in reviewing applications.
The Week in Admissions News
Humanities grads are employed and like their work; questioning use of metrics in admissions; free tuition program at Madison; "Macron effect."

Why a College Ended Admissions by Test Score
A few dozen students a year who were meeting the SAT requirement were in the bottom half of their high school classes and didn't perform well in college.

Opinion
Junk-News Junkies
Oxford report renders as charts and correlations something that would otherwise go undoubted: that a well-funded and well-organized hard-right political movement has forged its own media system, writes Scott McLemee.

Dropping the D
Transfer rates at North Carolina's Stanly Community College increased after the college made the simple grading change of no longer awarding D's.

Publication by Design
Two major journals experiment with "registered reports," agreeing to publish articles based on their design and potential significance, not their results. Could this be a model for others, and one solution to the reproducibility crisis?

Questions Abound on Business School Rankings
Temple removes itself from more rankings, but it is not the only university to have M.B.A. statistics challenged.
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