Admissions

Charlotte West offers advice for college counselors on the guidance they should provide applicants.

Many educators say these programs favor the wealthy, but more and more applications came in this year -- to all kinds of institutions.

Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.

Students are being encouraged to apply to too many colleges, writes Nicholas Soodik.

A colleague’s job move has Jim Jump reflecting on challenges faced by those in admissions whose bosses don’t understand the field.

At competitive high schools, students boast of averages that are well above 4.0. Does anyone take the numbers seriously? Could they be doing damage?

Share of white students has dropped significantly in last 35 years, but Asian-Americans are alone among minority groups in seeing substantial gains. Black applicants have lowest admit rates.