Admissions

Saying that the scoring system used for U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Schools list is incompatible with Georgetown Law’s “mission as a legal educator and servant of the…

The American Talent Initiative, of which Georgetown is a founding member, shared results from a pilot program designed to expand opportunities for community college students to continue their education at…

A new report from Common App finds that racial and ethnic categories widely used to track the diversity of college applicants are often too broad to capture important variation within…

The student lists that some colleges purchase for recruitment can be a double-edged sword, both perpetuating the exclusion of underrepresented students and enabling vital outreach to those who might not…

As upward transfer enrollment declines, educators hope new dual and guaranteed admissions programs will reduce barriers for community college students intending to complete four-year degrees.

A new survey examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected college application activity, finding that test-optional policies were especially influential for students of color.

What if colleges pursued and applied for students, rather than the other way around? One company hopes the approach will broaden students’ opportunities, reduce strain on counselors, and diversify college…

The nation’s largest four-year public college system said it will no longer consider applicants’ SAT and ACT scores in the admissions process. MIT, meanwhile, took a different tack.

College admission counseling offices are disproportionately white compared with the students they serve, signaling a need for more inclusive recruitment and training.

Common App has announced changes to its application for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 admissions cycles—updates that clarify fee waiver eligibility and add options for nonbinary and transgender applicants.