Admissions

Don Hossler, Jerry Lucido and Emily Chung consider legacy preferences, early decision and other issues and draw attention to a key fact: the limited number of slots at elite institutions.

Throwing money in the air, hanging out with the mascot and humor are all part of the strategy for the leader of Northern State.

Colleges continue to drop requirements that were once the norm at competitive institutions. The exams have fans, but shift from required to recommended frustrates many counselors, who report applicant confusion.

They say the rankings pay lip service to the value of full-time professors but reward institutions that may offer minimal pay to adjuncts.

U.S. trade commission accuses Victory Media of letting colleges pay for inclusion in “matchmaker” tool, materials targeting military service members.

Ambitious project to create public database of wage data and other information about all postsecondary credentials seeks to help students and employers know more about what's expected in academic and job-training programs.

Jim Jump considers the situations where a college counselor’s interests may not entirely overlap with those of students.