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Admissions
Just Another Day in May
May 01, 2020
With hundreds of colleges extending their deposit deadlines due to the pandemic, May 1 means less than ever this year.
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Recent Articles

UC Faculty: Keep Tests, for Now
Grad Enrollment: Gains at Home, Losses Abroad
At Wake Forest, Apologies Not Accepted

Surveys

2019 Survey of Admissions Leaders: The Pressure Grows

Sept. 23, 2019 -- Inside Higher Ed's 2019 Survey of College and University Admissions Officers was conducted in conjunction with researchers from Gallup. 

You may download a full survey report here.

Inside Higher Ed regularly surveys key higher ed professionals on a range of topics.

On Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed will present a free webcast to discuss the results of the surveys. Sign up here.

The Inside Higher Ed survey of admissions directors was made possible in part by support from Salesforce, Collegis Education, ETS TOEFL and RaiseMe.

Booklets

Enrollment Concerns

"Enrollment Concerns" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand compilation of articles. You may download a copy here, free.

And we invite you to sign up here for a free webcast on the themes of the booklet on Wednesday, June 17, at 2 p.m. Eastern.

Support for this valuable resource was provided by D2L.

Archive

Harvard law announces it will accept GRE, not just LSAT
March 9, 2017

Move could change the debate in legal education about alternatives to the LSAT.

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National completion gap by race one-third larger than average gap at institutions
March 1, 2017

Black students graduate, on average, at a rate 22 percentage points lower than white students. Closing that gap will require individual institutions to improve completion rates and highly selective colleges to enroll more black students, a new report says.

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College Board pilots new way to measure adversity when considering applications, but some fear impact of leaving out race
February 28, 2017

College Board pilots system to help colleges make admissions decisions about who is disadvantaged -- and evidence from one college suggests 20 percent of decisions might be different. But lack of emphasis on race concerns some advocates.

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AP Program results show more students taking classes and succeeding
February 22, 2017

More than 20 percent of most recent high school class nationally has taken and passed at least one exam.

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Study suggests that college isn't the great equalizer many believe
February 17, 2017

Study links family income growing up to postgraduation income -- even after controlling for many factors. Other researchers disagree.

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Teacher suspended for withdrawing college recommendation letter for student who displayed swastika
February 7, 2017

If a high school senior displays a swastika at his school, should colleges be told? A teacher is being punished for doing just that.

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Colleges shouldn't abandon early-admissions programs (essay)
January 24, 2017

Robert Massa contends that early-decision admissions programs do not, in fact, necessarily act against the inclusion of disadvantaged students at the nation’s most prestigious institutions.

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An assessment of the impact of the early FAFSA on college applications (essay)
January 19, 2017

Kent Barnds takes stock of the impact of a major change in the financial aid and student recruitment timetable.

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Rich students flock to elite colleges, study finds, but graduating college levels playing field
January 19, 2017

Access to certain colleges has a lot to do with income, new study finds, but graduating college levels the playing field for students of all socioeconomic backgrounds.

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The discrimination inherent in early-admissions programs (essay)
January 12, 2017

The disadvantage they confer on low-income students is a fatal flaw, argues Harold O. Levy.

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