By Scott Jaschik. The College Board on Monday released an analysis of the impact of free SAT tutoring offered by the Khan Academy as part of a College Board initiative to provide low-income test takers with test prep. More...
20 mai 2017
20 mai 2017
Common Application Plans New Transfer Application
By Scott Jaschik. The Common Application announced Tuesday that it is planning a new application for transfer students. The announcement said that with larger and larger populations of students moving from college to college, or returning to college after attending years before, prospective students and institutions need more application features focused on transfer. More...
20 mai 2017
A Plan to Kill High School Transcripts … and Transform College Admissions
By Scott Jaschik. More than 100 elite private high schools aim to replace traditional transcripts with competency-based, nonstandardized documents -- with no grades. They plan to expand to public high schools, with goal of completely changing how students are evaluated. More...
20 mai 2017
Illinois Court: FOIA Applies to College Foundation
By Scott Jaschik. An Illinois appeals court ruled Tuesday the College of DuPage Foundation is subject to state open-records laws, The Chicago Tribune reported. More...
20 mai 2017
NCAA Report Sees More Academic Success
By Scott Jaschik. A report released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association Wednesday said that athletes in Division I improved academically for the 12th consecutive year, according to the association's academic progress rate. More...
20 mai 2017
Challenge to B-School Rankings
By Scott Jaschik. Twenty-one scholars at a range of business schools are about to publish a joint call to change the way business schools are ranked. They argue that traditional methods -- which reduce business schools to ordinal rankings -- are deceptive and biased toward certain kinds of M.B.A. and other business school programs. More...
20 mai 2017
A Busy Week in Admissions News
By Scott Jaschik. Critique of b-school rankings; year two of Maine's efforts to draw out-of-state students; promoting transfer; rising discount rates; and the latest coffee-college partnership. More...
20 mai 2017
'Who Gets In?'
By Scott Jaschik. New book shows the impact of grades, test scores, race and gender on admission to competitive colleges. More...
20 mai 2017
Experts at High Schools and Colleges React to Radical Reform Plan
By Scott Jaschik. Some praise plan offered by more than 100 elite private schools to kill high school transcripts and reform college admissions. Others are dubious. More...
20 mai 2017
Tough Year for Midwestern Liberal Arts Colleges
By Scott Jaschik. Every spring, you can expect an announcement from Williams College about a record number of applications, and record achievement levels in the applicant pool and among those who were admitted. More...
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