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By Justin Doubleday. What if students received their financial-aid packages earlier in the year, giving families more time to prepare to pay for college? That would be possible if financial-aid eligibility were based on two-year-old tax data, rather than the year-old data used now. A report released on Monday by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators considers the implications of switching to the older data, called “prior-prior year” data. The report, which was supported with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores research that was first presented at the association’s conference this past summer, and also makes policy recommendations. More...

By Eric Hoover. Neither a victory nor a defeat. That’s how supporters of race-conscious admissions policies have described the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas. At the College Board’s annual conference here this week, admissions officials have discussed that ambiguity. During a session on Fisher, an audience of more than 200 people participated in an on-the-spot survey. More...

By Eric Hoover. Colleges that have long overlooked and undervalued transfer students are thinking more carefully about how to recruit, retain, and graduate them. During a session here on Thursday at the College Board’s annual conference, enrollment experts said the nation was having a long-overdue “transfer moment.”
The recession “has rejiggered the way that families look at higher education,” said Stephen J. Handel, associate vice president for undergraduate admissions for the University of California system. High-school students who wouldn’t have even considered community colleges five years ago are giving them a second look. And more are choosing to start their quest for four-year degrees at two-year colleges. More...