Admissions

Nicholas Soodik asks why so many colleges are vague or confusing in their letters to accepted applicants about financial aid eligibility.

Colleges bombard bright high school students with pitches. Will an unexpected bit of humor motivate them to look more seriously at an institution?

Some school districts have threatened to suspend students who join protests for tougher gun laws. Admissions leaders at MIT and elsewhere tell applicants such suspensions won't be held against them.

Some economics departments are reclassifying their programs as STEM fields, in part to make them more attractive to international students.

Jim Jump considers the questions raised when high school students and their parents don't want a college to know about a disciplinary infraction.

People who are not academics are invited to vote. QS says it weeds them out after they do so.