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The Week in Admissions News
Uncomfortable men; DeVos and degrees; FAFSA goes mobile; a plan to reform undergraduate education.
What If Weighted GPAs Are Meaningless?
At competitive high schools, students boast of averages that are well above 4.0. Does anyone take the numbers seriously? Could they be doing damage?
Diversity and Medical School Admissions
Share of white students has dropped significantly in last 35 years, but Asian-Americans are alone among minority groups in seeing substantial gains. Black applicants have lowest admit rates.
Brigham Young Gave a Point to Male Applicants
Leaked documents show an advantage for men over women, using a numerical formula. University says it has shifted to holistic admissions.
Uncomfortable Men
Texas commissioner of higher education says outnumbered men are uncomfortable on some college campuses. How will the state navigate goals for growing numbers of male graduates in a world where the patriarchy women face is being laid bare?
Recent News on Admissions
International students and long-term enrollment growth; more law schools will accept GRE; education debt held by older Americans.
Fighting to Hold On to In-State Students
Hartwick, a private institution where three-quarters of enrollees are from New York State, seeks to counter impact of free public tuition.
Computer Science as (Foreign Language) Admissions Requirement
High schools in Georgia see surge in enrollments in computer science, and state leaders are pleased. But are those courses equivalent, as university system admissions requirements now say, to Spanish or French?