Grades Still Matter Most in Admissions
A majority of colleges attribute little or no importance to students’ race and ethnicity or first-generation status when reviewing applications, according to survey findings released on Thursday by the...
View ArticleAt Test-Optional Colleges, Students Surpass the Scores They Didn’t Submit
At nearly three dozen colleges that do not require applicants to take the ACT or SAT, researchers have found only “trivial differences” between the long-term performance of college students who...
View ArticleA Closer Look at Texas’‘Top 10 Percent’ Plan
Eligibility for automatic admission under Texas’ “top 10 percent” plan increases the likelihood that a student will enroll at one of the state’s flagship universities by about 60 percent, shifting...
View ArticleAt-Risk Students Who Fall Behind Struggle to Catch Up, Study Finds
Underachieving students in at-risk groups are less likely than other underachieving students to meet college-readiness standards four years later, according to a report released on Thursday by ACT. The...
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To Help Rural Students, Provide Them With Campus Jobs
Rural students are an overlooked population with their own needs. In a guest post, Shannon Venezia offers advice on how colleges can better support those students. Ms. Venezia, director of financial...
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Measuring Colleges’ Access and Diversity Efforts
Not only do colleges have different goals when it comes to diversity, they don’t all define the term the same way. That has made one committee’s efforts to develop an index for rating colleges’...
View ArticleDoes Your Admissions Office Have ‘Cultural Intelligence’?
Chicago — The modern admissions office doesn’t need a good student-recruitment plan—it needs many of them. After all, what resonates with one applicant might not matter to another. At the ACT’s...
View ArticleAt Goucher College, Applicants Who Send Videos Need Not Send Grades
Starting this fall, applicants to Goucher College may submit a self-produced video instead of test scores, high-school transcripts, and recommendations. With the Goucher Video App, announced on...
View ArticleCommon App No Longer Requires Members to Conduct ‘Holistic’ Reviews
Indianapolis — The Common Application will no longer require member colleges to conduct “holistic” reviews of applicants, the organization announced on Friday. The change in policy will allow...
View ArticleWhat Keeps Women Out of Elite Colleges? Their SAT Scores
We’ve all heard about the gender gap in higher education: Nationally, women enroll in college and complete degrees at higher rates than men do. But new research reveals that for decades women have been...
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