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Transfer Enrollment Falls Sharply

A new study finds that transfer enrollment from two- to four-year institutions dropped precipitously across all demographics and institutions. The consequences could be stark for underserved students.

All in the Family

A spate of initiatives across the country are bringing high school graduates and their relatives to college in hopes of improving the financial status of families and increasing college retention rates.

The Magnitude of Affirmative Action

Study finds large advantages for Black and Latinx applicants to Harvard and University of North Carolina. Is it valid? Will this sway the Supreme Court?

What If Colleges Used to Discriminate Against Asian American Applicants?

New study suggests that top colleges perhaps used to discriminate against Asian Americans, but they may have abandoned the practice.

Poll Finds the Public Doesn’t Favor Affirmative Action

Pew poll of American adults finds 74 percent think race and ethnicity should not be considered in admissions decisions. For gender, 82 percent think it shouldn’t be considered.
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Helping Prospective Students See Themselves on Campus

With some students not able to make it to campus for an in-person tour, colleges must ensure their virtual tours offer a clear sense of what the campus is like, says Mary Kreta of the University of Montana.

Blame the Deans

Law firm says former dean of education left out data that would bring down University of Southern California’s score from 2013 to 2020, and the current dean did so in 2021, before coming clean to the provost.

The Week in Admissions News

Tuition waivers for Native Americans; more Pell Grants for prisoners; Ohio State ends iPad program; hazing at Baylor.