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'Crazy U'

Andrew Ferguson’s Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College (Simon & Schuster) shares more with...

Surrender to Early Admissions

Harvard and Princeton both restore "early action" plans -- amid evidence that applicants and institutions alike are more anxious than ever for certainty.

Price Check at Sewanee

U. of the South cuts tuition by 10%, seeking to reverse both rising discount rate and increased spending on merit aid. Could other private colleges follow?

Advanced Placement: Up and Down

Program continues to grow – and passing rate continues to fall.

Anger Over New Rankings

Education deans from top research universities challenge methodology embraced by U.S. News and say that the "implied coercion" to participate raises questions of journalistic ethics.
Opinion

Honesty on Application Essays

With vendors buying and selling the words that supposedly got students in, it's time to admit that these words aren't typically decisive, and that may be a good thing, writes Scott Anderson.

The Same Boxes to Check

Common Application rejects proposals to add optional questions on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Opinion

The Flaw of Overall Rankings

Robert J. Sternberg turns to psychology research to explain why assigning ordinal numbers to colleges is inherently flawed.