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IN 1947, THE COLLEGE BOARD OPENED AN office in Berkeley, California. Previously, from the turn of the century onward, the organization had been administering entrance examinations for schools in the [...]

Student enrollment numbers are causing concern at Arkansas colleges even before the 'enrollment cliff' is projected to hit in 2025. The total headcount of students in Arkansas' 11 public four-year [...]

Introduction The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) has new accreditation standards. Standard 3.2 focuses on admission standards that indicate high academic achievement. This standard requires that: The [...]

Byline: Mike Kennedy Harvard University's race-conscious admissions policies do not illegally discriminate against Asian American applicants, a federal judge has ruled. The Harvard Crimson reports that the ruling brings an [...]

THE LATEST NEWS about changes in standardized-testing policies tends to pique people's interest. But the latest news about changes in standardized-testing policies at Harvard University? That sends folks into breathless [...]

Getting into a top university in the United States is harder than ever. Bombarded with a record number of applicants, most selective colleges are rejecting the vast majority, including many [...]

IT SEEMS LIKE A GEOLOGICAL AGE AGO when admissions officers considered themselves educators first and foremost, with a penchant for interacting on a personal basis with adolescents, their parents, and [...]

It was around the time Rob Strain realized some of his teachers were confusing the University of Pennsylvania with Penn State that he decided he might need outside help with [...]

'Education Testing Council (ETC) a new council will run free standardised tests for university admissions, government will bear the cost of the test that will be conducted twice a year', [...]

Byline: Katherine Mangan Nearly three out of four colleges ask applicants a variation of the question most dreaded by those who have been on the wrong side of the law: [...]

I sat nervously on the edge of my chair and waited as my guidance counselor opened the long white envelope that held my ACT score. My heart sank as she [...]

Byline: Peter Schmidt A federal appeals-court panel handed at least a temporary setback to critics of affirmative action on Tuesday by ruling that a race-conscious admissions policy at the University [...]

More than a dozen women's colleges have admissions policies for transgender students. Many will now consider applicants if they self-identify as [...]

Byline: Eric Hoover Race-conscious admissions policies are here to stay. Race-conscious admissions policies are in peril. The justices in Washington have affirmed the status quo. The justices in Washington have [...]

Byline: Eric Hoover Last week the Common Application Inc. announced the latest in a series of changes in its standardized form, used by an ever-soaring number of applicants. The 2011-12 [...]

Byline: Peter Tufano Most Americans cannot perform basic financial calculations. The ignorance is costly. Research shows that people who are not 'debt literate' use high-cost credit and are overindebted. That [...]

Byline: Aisha Labi Reims, France -- CamȨlia Viallet has just begun her undergraduate studies here at the newly opened Reims campus of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris, better [...]

Byline: Eric Hoover and Beckie Supiano Before his first college-admissions interview this winter, Robert Johns was nervous. He looked over some tips provided by his counselors, at Saint Christopher's School, [...]

As the Obama administration advances its goal of graduating all high school students college- and career-ready by 2020, observers are left to flesh out the details behind a broad and [...]

The change in the federal student-aid application process that the Obama administration announced last month may at first sound arcane. Students will be able to apply earlier for aid and [...]

Byline: James M. Danko As a business-school dean, I have followed with interest the current debate about the Graduate Record Examinations' becoming an acceptable alternative to the GMAT, or Graduate [...]

Byline: Josh Keller Jake Parent did almost everything right. The 28-year-old political-science student at De Anza College compiled a perfect 4.0 grade-point average, helped start an orphanage for boys in [...]

Byline: CHRIS TEARE As this year's college-admission cycle nears its end -- with most high-school seniors having chosen the colleges where they plan to enroll -- it's time to look [...]

Byline: ERIC HOOVER Winston-Salem, N.C. -- The admissions process is awash in numbers. Students accumulate grade-point averages and test scores. Colleges use statistical models to predict enrollment outcomes, and they [...]

Byline: JOSH KELLER Faced with severe budget cuts and an increase in applications for this fall, nearly half of California State University's 23 branches may have no choice but to [...]