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The Top Admissions Articles of 2018
Here are the pieces that attracted the most readers. Topics include the difficulty of getting in, admissions inequities, race and testing.
The Week in Admissions News
Protest at Brown; med school applications; new Chicago effort; role of smartphones.
Opinion
Ethical College Admissions: A Tragedy
Jim Jump considers the reports of abuse and application fraud by a private school in Louisiana that has been highly praised.
Opinion
College and Beginning Afresh
We need to ask students why they want to go to college, writes Nicholas Soodik.
Opinion
Academe Must Challenge the Skeptics of Expertise
The more academics seek to inform and shape policy, the more they must confront efforts to undermine their influence, writes Linda Stamato.
Consolidating Instead of Merging
As some small private colleges merge with one another, others simply contract, closing up branch campuses -- some of them long-standing and hundreds of miles away.
Scaling Up the Swiss Model for Career Training
Betsy DeVos touts Swiss approach for apprenticeships, but such business-driven career education options remain limited in the U.S.