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The Week in Admissions News
The new FAFSA; next round of negotiated rule making; Rice defends affirmative action; is GRE losing significance?
Application Numbers Are Up
Will they translate into the kind of admissions year that officials have been hoping for?
Increasing the College-Going Rate in Boston
Reports detail challenges posed by the pandemic and success of coaching in college.
Striving to Use Technology to Smooth Transfer Connections
A digital transcript sharing company and a software company that helps manage transfer team up. Leaders hope their union helps students move among higher ed institutions with more ease.
A Journal Article on Gay People, to Be Viewed With Caution
A peer-reviewed journal placed a warning to readers last month on a flawed article from 2001. But the journal hasn’t retracted it, as a professor who discovered errors has called for.
Opinion
Admissions Staff Accountability and Travel
Don’t throw the student recruitment baby out with the COVID bathwater, write Robert Massa and Bill Conley.
A College Counselor’s Insightful Memoir
A Russian émigré turned college counselor discusses the role of education in the immigrant experience, how AI might change college admissions and how she pushes students to think about who they really are.
The Week in Admissions News
Decline in degrees awarded; free community college; boosting Black enrollment.