Jim Jump

Jim Jump reflects on moves by three more universities to reinstate standardized test requirements.

Jim Jump considers Dartmouth’s decision to reinstate standardized testing “in context.”

Admissions counselors should exercise empathy and flexibility this cycle, Jim Jump writes.

The degree to which the college admission process is a meritocracy may be in question—but it’s most certainly a luckocracy, Jim Jump writes.

The high school counselor’s letter of recommendation is an art form, Jim Jump writes.

Vanderbilt’s criticism of the U.S. News ranking methodology is tone-deaf at best, Jim Jump writes.

As new data make all the more clear, we should be ashamed of the ways in which elite college admissions privilege children of the wealthy, Jim Jump writes.