A single college rejection letter can sting. Admissions teams will say no thousands of times in the coming weeks. This rationing of knowledge is unnecessary. Higher education can be scalable, ...

The last three years of college admissions changes—including the universal adaption of test-optional policies, the ending of race-conscious admissions by the Supreme Court, and the decreased emphasis ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. Emily Pacheco is an assistant director of admission at Loyola ...

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a collaborative series covering the state of Northwest college admissions in 2025. Directives by the Trump administration are aimed at eliminating race-based ...

Former admissions officer said colleges look for keywords like first-gen and low-income to identify Black students following ...

The Supreme Court outlawed the use of race in admissions last month, but the scrutiny of colleges’ responses to the landmark ruling is just beginning. Students for Fair Admissions made that clear on ...

Views about selective higher educational institutions taking race and ethnicity into account in their admissions decisions differ widely by race and ethnicity, age, educational attainment and partisan ...

Schools are pushing to get commitments from prospective students sooner, adding new early-admission rounds, and using wait ...