Admissions

Jim Jump wonders if speed should really be a factor in reviewing applications.

A few dozen students a year who were meeting the SAT requirement were in the bottom half of their high school classes and didn't perform well in college.

Death of a 16-year-old at a competitive high school in California leaves many asking whether too much is being asked of students.

Oxford report renders as charts and correlations something that would otherwise go undoubted: that a well-funded and well-organized hard-right political movement has forged its own media system, writes Scott McLemee.

Transfer rates at North Carolina's Stanly Community College increased after the college made the simple grading change of no longer awarding D's.

Two major journals experiment with "registered reports," agreeing to publish articles based on their design and potential significance, not their results. Could this be a model for others, and one solution to the reproducibility crisis?

Leonard J. DeLorenzo questions whether the college admissions system is addressing its problems.