PHOENIX - In the aftermath of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned a system known as affirmative action from being used in the college admissions process, the battle is shifting to a system that ...

A growing number of colleges are considering how much interest an applicant shows in their institution -- such as whether the student visited the campus or their booth at a college fair -- as a factor ...

Legacy preferences in college admissions are in the news again, this time because a bill has been introduced in the New York State Senate that would end the practice. Senate Bill S4170, colloquially ...

The conservative advocate who dismantled affirmative action is joining forces with a center-left Democrat and a Duke University economist to challenge another sacred cow in elite college admissions: ...

As more colleges experiment with using direct admissions rather than requiring student to first apply, the question becomes how much will this new practice change the college admissions landscape. An ...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision curtailing affirmative action, the spotlight has once again turned to the controversial practice of granting preferential treatment to students with family ...

College admissions season is in full swing, with hundreds of thousands of high school seniors either painstakingly completing college applications or waiting anxiously to hear whether they’ve been ...