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What If Weighted GPAs Are Meaningless?
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?
Diversity and Medical School Admissions
Share of white students has dropped significantly in last 35 years, but Asian-Americans are alone among minority groups in seeing substantial gains. Black applicants have lowest admit rates.
Brigham Young Gave a Point to Male Applicants
Leaked documents show an advantage for men over women, using a numerical formula. University says it has shifted to holistic admissions.
Booster Schemes Persist at Mississippi
University of Mississippi has been punished yet again by the NCAA for giving cash to recruits, its third such violation since 1986.
College Choice Overload
Students are being encouraged to apply to too many colleges, writes Nicholas Soodik.
Academic Minute: Re-Animating Extinct Plants
In today's Academic Minute, Haverford College's Jonathan Wilson examines how plant fossils can help current plants survive for generations. Learn...
The Pulse: Assessment Management
This month's episode of The Pulse podcast features an Interview with Mustafa Sualp, CEO and founder of AEFIS, an assessment...
Re-Animating Extinct Plants
Planetary history can hold keys to preserving species when the climate changes. In today's Academic Minute, Haverford College's Jonathan Wilson...