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A Political Standoff Over Affirmative Action
Politicians are settling into entrenched positions in the fight over how to interpret the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban. Where does that leave colleges?
Test-Free Admissions: Why Wait?
While test-optional policies are already the norm, the University of California’s experience points toward test-free admissions as the next best step, Julie J. Park and OiYan Poon write.
Dispatch From a Post–Affirmative Action NACAC
College admissions counselors gathered at their annual conference last week, where the end of affirmative action loomed large among a host of other issues from a tumultuous year.
Rankled by Rankings
Shifts in methodology scrambled the usual hierarchy of U.S. News’s annual college rankings, prompting a fierce backlash from some higher ed leaders.
Michigan Universities Promise Admission to Eligible Students
No Calculus? No Problem at Caltech
With many high school students lacking access to key STEM classes, Caltech and other technology-focused institutions are exploring admissions alternatives.
A New Legal Blitz on Affirmative Action
Challenges to race-conscious policies are surging in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, including a new lawsuit against West Point.
Preference for Privilege
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.