Admissions

Rapper and Twitter personality Lil B tweeted that he would like to go to college. When you have 1.5 million followers and have released more than 50 mixtapes, that’s the sort of thing colleges notice.

Charlotte West offers advice for college counselors on the guidance they should provide applicants.

Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.

Students are being encouraged to apply to too many colleges, writes Nicholas Soodik.

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?

A colleague’s job move has Jim Jump reflecting on challenges faced by those in admissions whose bosses don’t understand the field.

Leaked documents show an advantage for men over women, using a numerical formula. University says it has shifted to holistic admissions.